Center for Urban Population Health
Data Driven, Evidence-Based, and Community Engaged.
The Center for Urban Population Health is a strategic partner to the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership, providing public health and analytic support to a number of Partnership initiatives, including the triennial shared Community Health Needs Assessment. The Center serves as an important partner and strategic advisor for Health Compass Milwaukee.
With over 15 years of organizational experience and memory, the Center has developed a responsive approach in supporting investigator driven, community connected research and education initiatives. We work with and support faculty researchers from across Aurora Health Care, UW School of Medicine and Public Health and UW-Milwaukee.
For the Center, the population health perspective provides a research framework to better understand and address the health and well-being of communities. Population Health focuses on identifying the determinants of health, disease, and well-being in populations, designing and implementing preventive or treatment interventions and measuring their effectiveness against health outcomes of a community. We work with our partners to:
- Define populations
- Assess health and wellness
- Design studies and interventions
- Engage partners, patients and people
- Evaluate and measure effectiveness and impact
- Communicate and disseminate lessons learned to inform policy and practice
We do this work from clinic to community; with opportunities for capacity building and learning embedded in the organizational culture.