On Friday, June 8th, invitations were extended to 27 Letters of Intent applicants to submit full proposals to HWPP during the 8th Funding Cycle. They represented eight (8) Impact and nineteen (19) Development proposals.

 

Twenty-five (25) full proposals were  submitted by the deadline of Tuesday, July 31, 2012.  The full proposals are currently being reviewed by a panel of National Merit Reviewers. Scores and comments from the National Merit Reviewers will be forwarded to the Consortium for additional review and scoring.  The MCW Consortium will make their final recommendations for funding to the MCW Board of Trustees in late October.  It is anticipated that announcements for this round of funding will be made publicly by early November 2012.

Syed M. Ahmed, MD, MPH, DrPH, has been named Senior Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  Dr. Ahmed currently serves as Director of the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program.  He is also Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Professor in the Institute for Health and Society.

In his new role, Dr. Ahmed will provide leadership in improving the health of the communities served by the Medical College through mutually beneficial community partnerships and integration across MCW's research, education, clinical and community engagement missions.  Additionally, he will work with the Dean of the Medical School, Senior Associate Deans, Chairs, Institute/Center Directors and faculty to foster integration of community engagement across MCW's four missions and will serve as the external representative for MCW's Community Engagement Mission.

Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin and Wisconsin Partnership Program are jointly sponsoring a day-long conference to highlight and promote the successes and lessons learned of more than $200 million in funded projects.  Knowledge will be shared via: over 30 oral presentations, over 30 poster presentations, thematic poster presentations and an exhibit area to share products that have been developed from previous projects.

Keynote Presenter: David R. Williams, Ph.D. is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University.   He is internationally recognized as a leading social scientist focused on social influences on health. His research has enhanced our understanding of the complex ways in which race, racial discrimination, socioeconomic status and religious involvement can affect physical and mental health. The Everyday Discrimination scale that he developed is currently one of the most widely used measures to assess perceived discrimination in health studies. He is the author of more than 250 scholarly papers in scientific journals and edited collections and his research has appeared in leading journals in sociology, psychology, medicine, public health and epidemiology.

Contact Us:
Website: http://www.mcw.edu/healthierwipartnerships.htm
E-Mail: healthierwisconsin@mcw.edu
Phone: 414.955.4350