Charlanne FitzGerald, MPH
Researcher
Charlanne J. FitzGerald is a Researcher at the Wisconsin Population
Health Institute and has been conducting program evaluation and research at UW since 1991.
She has a Masters of Public Health from the Maternal and Child Health Program at the University
of Minnesota and a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her prior employment includes director/nutritionist for a 6-county WIC Project and assistant director of a
child care resource and referral agency.
Ms. FitzGerald is currently the program evaluator for Honoring Our Children, a federal Healthy Start initiative
at Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council to reduce infant mortality in Wisconsin tribal communities. She serves
on the Division of Public Health Lead Team for the Secure Public Health Electronic Reporting Environment (SPHERE)
and uses the web-based system for project reporting. She also provides evaluation consultation for two Wisconsin
Partnership Fund projects: The Tribal Academic Partnership for American Indian Health (part of the Student
Development Component of the Great Lakes Native American Research Center for Health) and Healthy Children
Strong Families, a child obesity prevention program. Her program evaluations in tribal communities have
included HIV/AIDS prevention, community-based nutrition education, tobacco education and policy, youth
tobacco abuse prevention, evidence-based medicine for chronic conditions, community assessment, and
residential substance abuse treatment for women and children. These evaluations have all involved
collaborative partnerships and ongoing feedback with project staff members, advisory boards, and
community participants.
Her past evaluation research projects include the Partnership for Healthy Babies in Wisconsin,
a study that identified best practices and documented barriers preventing high-risk pregnant
women from participating in both WIC and Prenatal Care Coordination. The Senior Health Intervention
Project measured health outcomes and costs for a paraprofessional case management model with over
1,000 patients in primary physician practices. The Head Start Transition Project was a longitudinal
study of 410 children and families in 8 rural school districts that featured developmentally appropriate
curriculum, social services, and parent involvement. Birth to Three and Children with Special Health
Care Needs Program evaluations focused on service delivery system coordination and collaboration.
Contact Information:
Charlanne FitzGerald, MPH
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
507A WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53726-2397 USA
Phone: (608) 262-6008
Email: cjfitzge@wisc.edu
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