If Americans learned anything from Hurricane Katrina, it’s the importance of a public health network in impoverished urban areas, Milwaukee Mayor Tom
Barrett told the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
He implored the board to stop a fast-tracked, little-publicized plan to designate the UW-Madison Medical School as the state’s public health college. But the argument failed to win over the board’s Education Committee, which voted without dissent to recommend the designation to the full board, which planned to vote today.