As Gov. Jim Doyle and state lawmakers push health care reform to the top of this year’s legislative agenda, University of Wisconsin-Madison scholars are also getting into the act.
Under the auspices of a new partnership among the Wisconsin Joint Legislative Council, the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Population Health Institute and the La Follette School of Public Affairs, lawmakers will be able to formally tap into scholarly research and, it is hoped, make more informed policy decisions as a result.