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Join us for the 2019 Health Equity Leadership Institute UW Welcome Reception on Tuesday, June 18th! Help welcome the 2019 HELI Scholars to Madison & hear from speakers from UW-Madison and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Speakers include Robert N. Golden, MD, Dean of the UW School of Medicine & Public Health, Vice ChancellorContinueContinue reading “HELI 2019 UW Welcome Reception”

The Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is recruiting a postdoctoral trainee for its NICHD-funded Postdoctoral Training Program in Health Disparities Research. Appointments will be for 2-3 years beginning in the summer or fall of 2019. This program supports the training of scholarsContinueContinue reading “Postdoctoral Trainee Opportunity at UW-Madison”

Congratulations to HELI 2018 Alumna Dr. Susan Flowers Benton! Susan Flowers Benton, PhD, will be joining the faculty in the Department of Rehabilitation and Disability Studies in the College of Nursing and Allied Health at Southern University and A&M College as a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting July 1st! Before she and her family move backContinueContinue reading “Congrats to HELI Alumna Dr. Susan Flowers Benton!”

HELI 2015 alum Dr. Vernon Grant (Blackfeet Nation) is featured in the latest We Are Healers video! This video charts Dr. Grant’s journey of overcoming challenges and reaching the point where he is now working as a public health researcher to improve health outcomes in his home community of Browning, Montana. Dr. Grant is anContinueContinue reading “We Are Healers – HELI Alum Dr. Vernon Grant”

CCHE would like to share a recent article from Academic Medicine ~ ‘Shifting Academic Health Centers From a Culture of Community Service to Community Engagement and Integration’ is authored by Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSci, and Philip M. Alberti, PhD. Abstract:There is an increasing need for academic health centers (AHCs) to engage communities across theirContinueContinue reading “Shifting AHC Culture from Community Service to Community Engagement and Integration”

Congratulations to HELI 2015 Alumna Dr. Alyn Turner! Alyn Turner, PhD, is the newly appointed Director of Quantitative Research at Research for Action (RFA), a Philadelphia-based, nonprofit education research organization. Dr. Turner shared about her new position: My role will be to oversee the design and implementation of quantitative research studies in pre-k, K-12, andContinueContinue reading “Congrats to HELI Alumna Dr. Alyn Turner!”

The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC), Division of Population Science is seeking an Assistant Director of Population Sciences. The UWCCC Division of Population Science is committed to identifying effective approaches to reduce the burden of cancer for patients, their families, and communities. The guiding principles in this effort are multidisciplinary collaboration, health equity,ContinueContinue reading “Assistant Director of Population Sciences at UW-Madison”

We would like to alert you to an opportunity at Western Michigan University ~ Western Michigan University (WMU) is conducting a nationwide search for a new director of the School of Social Work. The Director is the school’s chief academic and executive officer, reports to and advises the dean of the College of Health andContinueContinue reading “School of Social Work Director at Western Michigan University”