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
Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship accepting applications
Fellow applications for 2025-2027 cohort are now open! The Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship Program is a two-year service and training program designed for early career individuals in public health and allied sciences. Visit the Fellowship website to apply and for more information about the Fellowship, including the application process, timeline, and requirements.
Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship Program Turns 2o!
For the past 20 years, the Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship Program and its fellows have worked to improve health across the state. Learn more about how past and present fellows are making a difference in their communities.
Register for our upcoming webinar: The Land Back movement and health
Join us for our upcoming webinar on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 3pm ET! On this National Day of Racial Healing we'll examine the relationship between reclaiming ancestral land and health and well-being. We’ll focus on the land back movement and how the return of Indigenous lands could strengthen social and economic opportunity.
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.