Epic tour for La Follette!
La Follette faculty, staff, and students visited Epic Systems to learn from Epic leadership about data, health equity, and how electronic health records can improve health.
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
La Follette faculty, staff, and students visited Epic Systems to learn from Epic leadership about data, health equity, and how electronic health records can improve health.
Assistant Professor Lauren Schmitz and her team of researchers were awarded a National Institute on Aging grant for their work on the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health.
By looking at where people were born instead of where they ultimately move to and die, geographic disparities in mortality look different, according to a new study by Jason Fletcher.
Fletcher is one of three UW-Madison faculty selected for this prestigious fellowship this year, and the only scholar from the Sociology discipline to be selected.
A new study by Assistant Professor Lauren Schmitz that follows people who were born during the Great Depression shows that early-life exposure to poor economic conditions is associated with accelerated aging.
Health Policy Certificate students have the opportunity to apply practical skills and knowledge gained during their coursework and develop skills in a professional setting through internships with the state legislature, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and more.
Héctor Pifarré i Arolas joined the La Follette School’s faculty as an assistant professor this fall.
The certificates allow students to gain critical knowledge and experience before entering the job market or graduate school.
In July, La Follette School Professor David L. Weimer contributed to an article in the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (JAMDA) that analyzes factors affecting the likelihood that family members will visit relatives in nursing homes. We asked Weimer, a nationally recognized expert on benefit-cost analysis, to tell us about the project. What made you …
On June 18, 2022, La Follette School Professor Emeritus Robert Haveman passed away at age 85. Colleagues at the La Follette School mourned the loss of Haveman.