Senior Advisor
David A. Kindig is Emeritus Professor of Population Health Sciences and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine. He-Co-Directs the Wisconsin site of the
Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program
and also serves as Senior Advisor to the UW Population Health Institute., and Co-Director of its
"Making Wisconsin the Healthiest State" project.
He received a B.A. from Carleton College in 1962 and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago School of Medicine in 1968. He completed residency training in Social Pediatrics at Montefiore Hospital in 1971.
Dr. Kindig served as Professor of Preventive Medicine/Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin from 1980-2003, where he developed a unique distance education graduate degree in medical management. He was Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1980-1985, Director of Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center (1976-80), Deputy Director of the Bureau of Health Manpower, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1974-76), and the First Medical Director of the National Health Services Corps (1971-73). He was National President of the Student American Medical Association in 1967-68.
He served as Chair of the federal Council of Graduate Medical Education (1995-1997), President of the Association for Health Services Research (1997-1998), a ProPAC Commissioner from 1991-94 and as Senior Advisor to Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1993-95. In 1996 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He received the Distinguished Service Award, University of Chicago School of Medicine 2003. He chaired the Institute of Medicine Committee on Health Literacy in 2002-2004, chaired Wisconsin Governor Doyle's Healthy Wisconsin Taskforce in 2006, and received the 2007 Wisconsin Public Health Association's Distinguished Service to Public Health Award.
He lives with his wife Margi, has three children and four grandchildren, enjoys tennis and fly-fishing, spending spare time in his wilderness cabin in the Michigan Upper Peninsula and in Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico, and reading political biography and western literature.
Recent Publications:
- Kindig DA, Asada Y, Booske B. A Population Health Framework for Setting National and State Health Goals. JAMA 299 (17) 2081-2083, 2008
- Kindig DA. Why is Minnesota's Health Better than Ours? Capital Times Madison, WI April 19, 2008
- Peppard PE, Kindig DA, Dranger E, Jovaag A, and Remington PL. Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings. American Journal of Public Health 98(2): 209-212, 2008
- Understanding Population Health Terminology. Milbank Quarterly 2007 85 (1) 139-161
- A Pay-for-Population Health Performance System. JAMA Vol 296, No. 21 December 6, 2006
Contact Information:
David A. Kindig, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
610 Walnut Street, 589 WARF
Madison, WI 53726-2336 USA
Phone: (608) 263-4886
Fax: (608) 262-6404
Email: dakindig@wisc.edu