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Five Women Join the Faculty at the School of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

The Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee has added eight new faculty members. Five of the new faculty members are women.

Karla Bartholomew is an assistant professor of public health policy. She recently completed a joint J.D./Ph.D program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

A graduate of the University of Maryland, she holds a master of public health degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Amy Kalkbrenner was appointed assistant professor of epidemiology. Her research focuses on a possible link between air pollution and afflictions such as autism and attention deficit disorder.

A graduate of Indiana University, where she doubled majored in psychology and biology, Dr. Kalkbrenner holds a master of public health degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina.

Renee E. Walker is a new assistant professor of community and behavioral health promotion. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Walker is a graduate of Lake Forest College in Illinois. She holds a master of public health degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia and a doctorate in public health from the University of Pittsburgh.

Xuexia Wang is an assistant professor of biostatistics. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, she was conducting research for the City of Hope, a cancer research center in California.

Dr. Wang is a graduate of Shandong Normal University in China. She holds a Ph.D. in quantitative economics from Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in biostatistics from Michigan Technological University.

Fang Yan was hired as an assistant professor of community and behavioral health. She was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Dr. Yan is a graduate of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She holds a doctorate in public health from the University of Maryland.

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