Health Equity and Social Justice

Hightlights
  • Geof Swain provided an overview of the topics of health equity and social justice and introduced some of the Fellows to the Wisconsin Center for Health Equity. [Paula and Raisa work with the Center].
  • Virginia Zerpa-Uriona, Outreach Specialist at the Center for Urban Population Health, gave a moving presentation on "Social justice and research: Anti-HIV stigma campaign in the Latino Community in Milwaukee"
  • Claudia Kabler-Babbit and Maggi Cage of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center presented LGBT public health intiatives underway at the LGBT Community Center
  • Mark O'Neil, the Director of Youth Services at Diverse and Resilient spoke to the group about capacity building

The Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship is an initiative of the UW Population Health Institute’s Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) Group. The Fellowship program is funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.