Jennifer Woo, a doctoral student at the Zilber School of Public Health, will be presenting her thesis, “The Long Reach of Childhood: Early-life Adversity and Adult Breast Cancer Risk” in the final round of the UWM Graduate School Three Minute… Read More
By Kathy Quirk UWM Research 2019 Liquid biopsies offer a way to search for cancer cells in the blood and other bodily fluids, perhaps before symptoms appear. They hold the promise of a less-intrusive alternative to traditional surgical biopsies that… Read More
By Laura Otto UWM Research 2019 February 21, 2019 E-cigarettes are often touted as a path for older smokers to quit traditional cigarettes. But the appeal of vaping culture is also leading to high numbers of teens experimenting with e-cigarettes…. Read More
By David Lewellen UWM Research February 21, 2019 Amanda Simanek, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, recently led a series of studies examining the links between infection and mood disorders. Simanek’s three… Read More
The important role fathers can play in reducing infant mortality rates and improving maternal and child health By Kathy Quirk UWM Research 2019 February 1, 2019 African-American babies in Milwaukee are three times more likely to die before their first… Read More
By Laura Otto UWM News January 1, 2019 A research university runs on federal grant funding. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is one of the nation’s top research universities as recognized by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. It… Read More
By Laura Otto UWM News December 19, 2018 The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has retained its “gold standard” research classification from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, three years after earning the ranking for the first time. UWM is… Read More
Zilber School of Public Health faculty Mustafa Hussein’s (PI) and Phoenix Do’s (Co-PI) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project has been funded. This 2-year and approximately $250k study is titled “Health at a Living Wage: Evidence from Natural Experiments.” The goal of… Read More
By Brandon Rook, Photojournalist Mark Was Today’s TMJ4 October 11, 2018 Tobacco ads aimed at Latino and African American children? A UW-Milwaukee researcher says it’s a trend at corner stores and gas stations in certain zip codes. This data was… Read More
By Laura Otto UWM News October 2, 2018 Research has shown that children born into poverty are more likely to develop chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and obesity, but why this occurs is unclear. Now, three researchers from the… Read More