The La Follette School will host its third annual La Follette Forum, funded by the Kohl Initiative, on Wednesday, May 4, 2022.
Health and Aging
New undergraduate Health Policy Certificate application opens Nov. 1
Are you interested in pursuing a career in the health sector? The La Follette School’s Certificate in Health Policy allows undergraduate students to gain critical knowledge and experience before entering the job market or graduate school.
Brenton Scholarships Support Future Leaders in Health Policy
Since 2016, the La Follette School has awarded the annual Stephen F. Brenton Health Policy Scholarship to a student seeking to pursue a career in the health sector.
Organizations needed to host interns in new health policy program
Next month, the La Follette School will open to undergraduate students the application window for its new Certificate in Health Policy.
Badger Talks series features La Follette School faculty
In the mood for a little public policy over lunch? Join La Follette School professors Christine Durrance, Greg Nemet, Morgan Edwards, and Philipp Koellinger for their noon-time virtual talks this August, sponsored by Badger Talks LIVE.
Legislators and aides discuss Wisconsinites’ health with La Follette School, UW–Madison faculty
The La Follette School convened legislators and staff to discuss how these social, economic, and physical environment factors—often called social determinants of health—affect Wisconsin families’ health. The discussions were part of the Continuing the Conversation series held after each Wisconsin Family Impact Seminar.
Seminar connects researchers, legislators on improving the health of families
The La Follette School’s 2021 legislative outreach efforts kicked off Wednesday, January 13 with the 39th Wisconsin Family Impact Seminar. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the seminar was the first in the program’s decades-long history presented in a virtual format.
WisPolitics discussion on health policy features Durrance
La Follette School Associate Professor Christine Durrance will participate on a WisPolitics panel discussion about possible post-election changes to healthcare at noon Thursday, Nov. 12.
Upward health mobility can elude some minorities and vulnerable Americans
Children in families characterized as minorities, those without health insurance, or those with low socioeconomic status experience less upward health mobility and greater downward health mobility relative to their more advantaged peers, according to research by La Follette School Professor Jason Fletcher and Katie Jajtner, a postdoctoral associate at UW–Madison’s Center for Demography of Health and Aging.
Allison Couture: Physican, student, advocate
Like everyone across the globe, Dr. Allison Couture (MPA ’20) had her world turned upside down when COVID-19 struck. However, Couture had a unique vantage point: as a master’s degree student at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and as a practicing doctor.