Presented by the UW Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar Series.

Speaker information:

Linda Baumann, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita

The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing and School of Medicine and Public Health.

Professor Baumann is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. She received a BSN and MS in nursing from the University of Michigan and her PhD in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her expertise is community health nursing, health behavior, and global health. Her research examines how beliefs about health and illness influence self-care behaviors, especially to promote diabetes self-care. She is a founding member of the UW–Madison Center for Global Studies and has led student field courses to Uganda, Cuba, Central America, and Thailand; and currently teaches in the Masters of Public Health program. Professor Baumann has served as a consultant to the World Bank in Vietnam and the West Bank for health workforce issues and health science programs. She is a Paul G. Rogers Society Global Health Research Ambassador and in 2012 was appointed to serve a 4-year term on the United States Preventive Services Task Force.