Month: February 2022

UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Megan Piper is featured in the latest episode of the podcast Freakonomics, M.D. The episode is called “Should We Pay People to Be Healthier?” At the request of Dr. Tim Baker, Piper discussed …

Nature Reviews, a group that owns 21 journals with some of the largest impact factors, is publishing the medications treatment chart created by UW-CTRI. The chart is designed to help clinicians properly treat patients for …

The Wisconsin Partnership Program has awarded a two-year grant for a total of $300,000 to support analysis of Wisconsin data from the COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin (CEC-UW). In April 2020, the …

Thanks to funding from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP), UW-CTRI will provide training and technical assistance to public health professionals across the state to help patients with …

To ensure that cancer patients get equitable, quality healthcare that includes tobacco cessation treatment, the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) funded 22 Cancer Centers in 2017; by June 2019, those Centers were not only reaching …

Drs. Danielle McCarthy, Megan Piper and Tim Baker are now working collaboratively as UW-CTRI Research Directors, effective this month. McCarthy and Piper have different areas of expertise with some overlap, so they will continue to …

February is Black History Month, and UW-CTRI is celebrating the work of The Center for Black Health & Equity, in particular the leadership of Executive Director Delmonte Jefferson. Tobacco companies have targeted African American communities …