The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute accelerates capacity to create equitable conditions for everyone to be healthy by advancing knowledge, practice, policy, and systems change across sectors.
Since 2005, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute has collaborated with partners at the local, state, and national level to help communities identify, evaluate, track, and shape the many factors that influence people’s health and well-being.
We provide evidence-informed strategies, actionable data, compelling narratives and stories, and high-quality training to equip people with the best possible tools and resources to build equitable systems, structures, and policies.
We believe that only by working together toward a world in which we value one another and honor our connectedness will we achieve the healthiest possible conditions for all of us.
What's new from UWPHI
UWPHI and DHS Presents a PHIG Narrative Summer Series
Join us on July 18 and August 29 for our new Narrative “Summer Series” hosted jointly by UWPHI and DPH/DHS! These sessions will be conversational, workshop-style virtual learning opportunities designed to increase participants’ understanding of narrative’s connection to specific topics within public health.
UWPHI Immersions Presents: An Introduction to Deliberative Inquiry on August 15 from 9:30-12pm CT
This Immersion will provide an introduction to deliberative inquiry, a strategy to promote constructive dialogue, identifying shared values and fostering consensus – building on critical issues. Join us as we collaborate with colleagues at the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service (WIPPS) and UW Extension for this great event!
Register now for CHR&R webinar "Public health alternatives to policing and incarceration"
Register now to join us on August 13 at 3pm EDT for "Public health alternatives to policing and incarceration." We'll speak with experts to explore how aggressive policing practices negatively impact health for individuals and communities and to discuss how public health and community-based organizations can partner to recommend policies to restore justice, promote community safety and advance equity.
Explore our programs
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
The CHR&R program is known for effectively translating and communicating complex data and evidence-informed policy into accessible models, reports, and products that deepen the understanding of what makes communities healthy and inspires and supports improvement efforts.
Evaluation & Engaged Research
Our team of professional evaluators and action researchers collaborate with partners from many sectors and use evaluation and community-engaged research as tools to plan and build more equitable systems, programs, policies, and community conditions where everyone has an opportunity to thrive.
Learn more about their collaborative efforts, projects, and the evaluation services they offer.
Mobilizing Action Towards Community Health
MATCH develops and deploys programs and resources and engages in collaborative partnerships that support strategic community-driven efforts to ensure that all people have a fair chance to be healthy in their homes, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods.
Land Acknowledgement
The UW Population Health Institute occupies Ho-Chunk Land, a place their nation has called Teejop (Day-JOPE) since time immemorial. In 1832, the Ho-Chunk were forced to surrender this territory. Decades of ethnic cleansing followed when both the federal and state government repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, sought to forcibly remove the Ho-Chunk people from Wisconsin.
This history of colonization shapes our commitment to building partnerships that prioritize respect and meaningful engagement. The staff of the institute respects the inherent sovereignty of the Ho-Chunk Nation, along with the 11 other First Nations of Wisconsin. We carry this land acknowledgement into our actions by considering the many legacies of violence, erasure, displacement, migration, and settlement as a lens in our work.