Faculty conduct their research within world renowned interdisciplinary research institutes and centers on campus. The faculty’s affiliation with these centers and institutes provides them and graduate students with the opportunity to become fully integrated and engaged in a highly active and productive interdisciplinary research community. These are just a few examples.
4W Initiative
The mission of the 4W Initiative at UW-Madison is to be a leader in education, research, and engagement to promote gender equity, global wellbeing, and the participation of women in society.
Center for Demography and Ecology
The Center for Demography and Ecology is a cooperative for social scientific demographic research and graduate training. Affiliates produce demographic research and data in the center’s five research areas: Demography of Inequality; Fertility, Families and Households; Health and the Life Course; Biodemography; and Environmental and Spatial Demography.
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
The Center for Demography of Health and Aging at UW-Madison supports research and training related to aging. The specific themes the center focuses on are: Aging and the life course; Biodemography; Determinants disparities of aging trajectories; Health economics and health services research; and Impacts of place on aging processes.
Center on Wisconsin Strategy
COWS, located at UW-Madison, is dedicated to promoting “high-read” solutions to social problems.
Institute on Aging
The UW-Madison Institute on Aging is focused on promoting the health and well-being of the aging adult populations in various communities through research, education, and outreach.
Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
The mission of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is to discover, translate, and disseminate interventions to improve health and healthcare.
The Institute for Research on Poverty
The UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty uses knowledge and research to further policies and programs dedicated to combatting poverty and inequality in the United States.
Waisman Center
The Waisman Center is a UW-Madison affiliate research center focused on human development, developmental disabilities, and neurogenerative diseases.