A key committee of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted Thursday to accept an agreement that will pour hundreds of thousands of additional dollars and resources into dealing with Milwaukee’s myriad public health problems.
For that, everyone in Milwaukee should be pleased. But the committee should have gone a step further and recommended an even firmer commitment to the creation of a school of public health at UW-Milwaukee, a new entity that could improve the state of public health in the city all the more.