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 team wins national award for infographics!
The 988 Data Dashboard received 2nd place in the National Association for Government Communications (NAGC) for Graphics-Infographics award at the Blue Pencil and Gold Screen Awards on May 21st.
The 988 Data Dashboard is a collaboration between staff at UWPHI, WI DHS & Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin.
2024 UWPHI Annual Report is now available!
Learn more about the work UWPHI undertook last year to that support community organizers, policymakers, public health and health care practitioners, and community residents as they work to assure that people, places, and the planet can thrive.
This annual report adds a new feature to highlight the alignment of the institute’s strategic action areas with the pillars and goals of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
CHR&R announces new 2025 Data Viz Challenge!
CHR&R is inviting original visualizations using CHR&R data to communicate the structural determinants of health, or the laws, policies, and power structures that drive health outcomes. We want to see how you use this data to tell stories that make the forces that shape health visible!
Entries due August 1, 2025!
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.
Workforce Development Pathways
The Workforce Development Pathways team works to advance public health system workforce policy and practice through translational research and practice, partnering with people with firsthand experience, committed service, and training and technical assistance. The team aims to change practice, focus priorities, and shift power to support shared action on root causes of health and equity.
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.