Last month, numerous members of the Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR) scientific community attended the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC). The 2023 conference ran from July 16-20 in Amsterdam and online and brought …
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Milwaukee Water Works to use UW-Madison’s Area Deprivation Index (ADI) in Equity Prioritization Plan
The City of Milwaukee will rely on the Area Deprivation Index to identify and prioritize disadvantaged neighborhoods for lead service line replacement, accelerating timeline to address one of the city’s urgent health inequities. In anticipation …
Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo to Lead NIH-Funded Health & Aging Brain Study—Health Disparities (HABS-HD) Development Core, Fellowship Program
Under Okonkwo’s direction, the study will commit $6.9M to curate educational opportunities that facilitate the participation of underrepresented groups in research careers and foster the training of a diverse workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, …
CHDR Welcomes Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld February 17, 2023
The Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR), in partnership with the Department of Medicine, will host AMA President-elect Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH on February 17th, 2023. Click here to join via Zoom (passcode: grandround) …
CHDR Seminar Series November Event to Feature Will Buckingham, PhD
CHDR’s Director of Geospatial Operations, Dr. Will Buckingham, will present “Mapping the Social Exposome: Health Geography in CHDR” on November 8, 2022 as part of the 2022–2023 CHDR Seminar Series. Health disparities are an under-recognized …
CHDR Collaborator Sid O’Bryant, PhD, Presents at Grand Rounds
Sid O’Bryant, PhD, Presents “AT(N) Biomarkers Among Diverse Populations: Re-Thinking Alzheimer’s Disease” Dr. Sid O’Bryant, a close collaborator with CHDR, presents “AT(N) Biomarkers Among Diverse Populations: Re-Thinking Alzheimer’s Disease”. The presentation takes place at University …