The Center for Patient Partnerships Joins UW-Extension

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Training leaders for 21st Century health

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Research to elevate patient voices

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Advocacy that puts patients at the core

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Zooming out: Learning strategies for systems change

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Explore our work

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Our programs combine patient advocacy, health systems, and experiential learning to boost marketable skills.

Our courses

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Graduate and professional students offer free advocacy services for patients navigating the health care system.

Advocacy services

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The Qualitative and Health Experiences Lab team shines a light on diverse patient experiences, using findings to promote patient-centered care.

Research

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Students learn how to navigate legal and policy systems, identifying issues where they can advocate for change at a broader level.

Systems change

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Our Mission

By amplifying diverse lived experiences and patient-generated ideas for change, the Center for Patient Partnerships transforms healthcare to prioritize the well-being of patients, families and communities. 

Our interdisciplinary approach combines experiential education, action research, advocacy and systems change.

Our statement on racial justice

For two decades the Center for Patient Partnerships has prepared emerging leaders to take on complexity. Whether it’s in a classroom, in the community, or online, our approach grounds students in reflection, listening, and empathy that strengthens one of the key elements found in successful 20th-century leaders: Self-awareness. 

Our students, who come from a wide range of disciplines, learn directly from clients as they navigate complicated challenges that emerge within health care, human services, benefits, legal, and insurance systems. 

As we assist patients seeking safe, necessary health care options, we actively share patients’ stories with policymakers and people who design services to ensure that systems become more responsive to the lived experiences of people most affected by health, social, and economic problems. 

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group of students“CPP has been the most personally impactful experience of my graduate program. Through the coursework, but especially through the connections I’ve made with clients and fellow advocates, I’ve gained important understanding of healthcare from an individual to systems level.

My time at CPP has laid the foundation for a future career grounded in patient narratives.”

2020 Graduate Student
Law, Medical Sciences and Nursing 768

   All are welcome here.

The Center for Patient Partnerships and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
are located on unceded, ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk people.