A new center at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health seeks to examine how a person’s environment and social conditions impact their health down to the molecular level. The leadership team, all women, includes School of Nursing Asst. Professor, Andrea Gilmore- Bykovskyi, PhD, RN.
Health Disparities
Dr. Maichou Lor | Grant Award
Dr. Maichou Lor, PhD, RN, was awarded a Baldwin grant to support the study Partnering with the Hmong Community to Build Better Medical Translation Tools and Preserve Hmong Narratives to Reduce Health Disparities.
Dr. Madelyne Greene | Grant Award
Dr. Madelyne Greene, PhD, RN, was awarded a grant to support the study Intersex Prevalence and Clinical Response.
Dr. Elliot Tebbe | Grant Award
Drs. Elliot Tebbe (co-I) and Stephanie Budge (PI, Dept of Counseling Psychology) were awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE’s) Understanding and Reducing Inequities Initiative grant.
An Investment in Mental Health Research
Barbara Abrams ’69 generously established the Barbara Leadholm Abrams Community Mental Health Research Fund at the School of Nursing. The Abrams Research Fund will in large part support the work of Professor Earlise Ward, PhD.
Mining notes from doctors and nurses could improve dementia diagnosis
Searching for clues in electronic health records could steer dementia patients to better treatment and follow-up examinations — especially patients from minority groups that tend to be less likely to receive specialized care.