Public health

The COVID-19 vaccine is now readily available at hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies across the state of Wisconsin as the federal declaration of emergency lifts Thursday. But it took years to get the vaccine rollout to this point, with plenty of bumps along the way....

Betsy Nugent, chief clinical research officer at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health, appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio to discuss clinical trials at UW-Madison, including the importance of trials, how they operate, and the critical need to increase the diversity...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) representatives state that international investment, collaboration, and coordination have been key to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic....

The NIH explores ways to speed up the research and discovery of new treatments for rare diseases, which are not often thought of as the public health challenge that they are. ...