Below is a list of projects that are currently taking place or have taken place in the last few years at UCC. If you have any questions regarding our current projects, please contact Mirtha Sosa Pacheco at (414) 389-4730.
- Survey on the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) – UW-Madison
- All of Us/ Precision Medicine Initiative – UW-Madison, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Mobile Tele-Eye Health (mTEH) (2016–2018)
- The goal of this project is to preserve vision in a high-risk population by implementing teleophthalmology to increase retinopathy screening and facilitate improved eye care, in partnership with the City of Milwaukee Health Department, Carroll University, Marquette University, and the Medical College of Wisconsin. This project was funded wholly by the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program, a component of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
- Opening Doors to Community Research - Reducing Barriers to Community Participation in Research (2015–2017)
- This project yielded a Human Subject protections training curriculum that allows the community-academic partners of any community-based project to deliver a training program for their staff, satisfying IRB requirements in lieu of the time-consuming and academically based CITI training. This project was done in partnership with the Medical College of WI and its IRB and was funded by the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program, Capacity Building grant - a component of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
- Family Caregivers / Alzheimer’s disease research
- Los Cuidadores Latinos Unidos - MCW/ Ret. Research Foundation
- En su Casa - Alzheimer’s Association
- United Family Caregivers - State of Wis. / Milwaukee County DOA
- Community Health / Public Health Training & Internships (ongoing)
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health - TRIUMPH (Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health) students
- Carroll University - Nursing, PT, OT, PA, Public Health students
- Medical College of WI – Global and Urban Pathways medical students
- UW-Milwaukee Helen Bader School – field practicums /placements
- Healthier Activities Partnership Program for Youth (HAPPY II) (2013–2016)
- This was a program and research study targeting the health behaviors of Latino middle-school aged children. This project was funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program, a component of the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment at the University of WI School of Medicine and Public Health.
- Pisando Fuerte (2014–2015)
- The goal of this project is to adapt an evidence-based falls prevention program for Latino seniors, in collaboration with the University of WI School of Medicine and Public Health (CTSI grant).
- ADHD Treatment for Latino Families (2015–2016)
- This program provided ADHD treatment in Spanish for Latino families in collaboration with Marquette University. This project was funded by a federal grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Past Key Projects:
- Dulce Tentacíon: a Spanish soap opera about diabetes
- Hope for Health Series: bilingual fotonovelas (story/picture books) about depression in elderly populations, Alzheimer’s disease, and healthy eating