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
2025 County Health Rankings Data and Report Released!
The 2025 Annual Data Release debuts a bold new model designed to broaden our understanding of health and introduce a framework to understand how societal rules and power shape community conditions. You'll also find new data for nearly 100 measures of health and new evidence-informed strategies to build power and address health disparities.
New webinar: Power-building approaches for health and equity
Register now for the next County Health Rankings & Roadmaps webinar on April 22 from 2-3pm CT to explore the different ways power is expressed — visible, hidden and invisible — and how we can harness it to advance health and equity. We'll be joined by guests from the Grassroots Power Project!
Explore the new Community Health Worker (CHW) Sustainability Toolkit
The CHW Financial Sustainability Planning Toolkit, created by UWPHI's Envision team in collaboration with their partners and national experts, is a comprehensive resource designed to help CHWs and CHW allies achieve financial sustainability. The Toolkit addresses the complex challenges of CHW workforce sustainability and emphasizes the importance of relationships and relationship-building as a key strategy for advancing financial sustainability goals.
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.