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Transformation
Transforming the UWSMPH
In 2005, the University of Wisconsin Medical School changed its name to the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. The name change represented a fundamental shift, one that no other medical school in the country has undertaken.
In the past, the school operated in a conventional medical model with education, research, and clinical service programs focused on the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses and injuries in individual patients. But the addition of public health to its name signaled a new way of approaching our tripartite missions. The public health approach emphasizes the promotion of health and the prevention of disease in groups, or populations, of people.
In 2007, under Dean Robert N. Golden, the school began a thoughtful process of defining what it means to integrate public health and biomedical approaches into its education, research, and community engagement missions. A new strategic plan, or roadmap, has been developed which outlines how the school plans to transform itself into a new type of institution which blends together medicine and public health.
You are invited to read the document linked below that describes this transformation plan and our vision for the promotion of health and the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease in the people of Wisconsin and beyond.
 Transforming UWSMPH, Jan. 2008
Transforming UWSMPH-Fast Facts, Feb. 2008
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