Join us in a forum to hear the latest in the research and practice of public health to support a just, equitable, healthy future for people, communities, and the environment in Milwaukee, the state of Wisconsin, and beyond.

Seminars are held weekly on Thursday mornings from 9:00 – 9:50 a.m., on UWM’s Kenwood campus in the Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex (KIRC) room 1150 (3135 N. Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211).

Coffee and bagels will be served.

Seminars can also be attended virtually via Teams.

Spring 2025

January 23Teresa Johnson, PhD, RN and AkkeNeel Talsma, PhD, RN, FAAN

January 30Power to the People: Evaluation Considerations for Public Health Liberation, Dr. Monique Liston, UBUNTU Research and Evaluation

February 6Mayor Cavalier Johnson, City of Milwaukee

February 13Jake Luo, PhD – Associate Professor, Health Care Informatics & Administration

February 20Brittany Keyes, DPT – Healthy Climate Wisconsin

February 27 Linda Wesp, PhD – UWM School of Nursing

March 6Michael Laoisa, PhD – Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

March 13Introduction to EMR and AI in Public Health, Min Wu, PhD – Associate Professor, Health Care Informatics & Administration

March 27 Victor Florez-Garcia, PhD Zilber College Alum, University of Illinois Chicago

April 3What will it take to end campus sexual violence?, Rose Hennessy Garza, PhD, MPH

April 10Detecting mosaic chromosomal alterations in apparently healthy individuals, Paul L. Auer, PhD – Medical College of Wisconsin

April 17Health/Data Disparities in Indian Country, Will Funmaker, MBA, MLT (ASCP) – Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center (GLITEC)

April 24The role of Public Health Nurses in Emergency Preparedness and Recovery in Local Public Health Departments – a Toolkit, Deborah Heim, PhD, MN, RN, PHNA-BC

May 1 Maren Hawkins, PhD and Barbra Beck-Clayton, PhD

Fall 2024 Schedule

September 12Todd Miller

September 19Amy Kalkbrenner

September 26Linnea Laestadius

October 3Langston Verdin, MPH

October 10Young Cho

October 17Kat O’Connell-Valuch – ZCPH Office of Research

October 24Christy Greenleaf

October 31Scott Strath

November 7Mike Totoraitis, Commissioner of Health, Milwaukee Health Department

November 14Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project

November 21Tara Jenson

December 5 David Frazer, Director of CUPH

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