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 Immersions Presents: Introduction to Structural Determinants of Health and Power
Join us for our next Immersion on Tuesday, February 25 from 9:30am-12pm CT! We'll be joined by experts from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps to explore the Structural Determinants of Health and how the written and unwritten rules and power dynamics result in some communities having what they need to thrive and others not having what they need. Register today!
Preview the 2025 County Health Rankings Annual Data Release!
Register now for the next County Health Rankings & Roadmaps webinar on March 11 from 2-3pm CT for a sneak peek at the 2025 Annual Data Release! This year CHR&R is debuting a new model of health focused on how power and rules shape community conditions and health! See what new tools and resources will be available to help build health and equity in your community.
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.