As an Associate Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, Ryan Westergaard, MD, PhD, MPH, is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist who specializes in the treatment of HIV and viral hepatitis. He has a …


On August 7th members of the CCHE team were excited to attend the ‘Dementia in Indian Country’ educational event at the Radisson Hotel in Green Bay, WI. Dr. Donald Skenandore (Oneida Tribal Member) and Dr. …

The UW ICTR Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Pilot Program has awarded two new grants in response to the 2018 RFA. The ICTR Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE) is home to the AHEAD …

ICTR granted 22 awards totaling $1.6 million for the 2018 Pilot Awards Program competition. Five of those awards were co-funded with campus partners; one each by the UW Waisman Center and the Department of Radiology, …

The new Collaborative Health Equity Research (CHER) Pilot Award has announced its first awardees. Olayinka Shiyanbola (School of Pharmacy) and Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi (School of Nursing) each received $50,000 to support community-engaged research projects focused on …
Summaries of Previously Awarded Collaborative Health Equity Research (CHER) Pilot Awards

Marquita Decker-Palmer, MD, PhD, MPH, earned her PhD in Clinical Investigation in 2017 with a dissertation titled Modeling Health Preferences and Cost-Effectiveness of Current Breast Cancer Screening Technologies to Inform Policy, Practice, and Prevention Strategies. …

All of Us Research Program gathering biomedical data from one million people to advance medical treatments and prevention A collaboration of three Wisconsin regional healthcare systems has been awarded $5.3 million to implement the NIH …