Explore our work
Education
Our programs combine patient advocacy, health systems, and experiential learning to boost marketable skills.
Advocacy
Graduate and professional students offer free advocacy services for patients navigating the health care system.
Action research
An international research team shines a light on diverse patient experiences, using findings to promote patient-centered care.
Systems Change
Students learn how to navigate legal and policy systems, identifying issues where they can advocate for change at a broader level.
Our Mission
The Center for Patient Partnerships fosters effective partnerships among people seeking healthcare, people providing healthcare, and people making policies that guide the healthcare system.
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.
News
Center for Patient Partnerships Joins Forces with Extension
Since our founding in 2000, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the Center for Patient Partnerships’ model. We are excited to announce that UW Madison Division of Extension is joining the schools of Law, SMPH, …
June 20, 2022Rachel Grob to Chair DIPEx International and Continue ‘Patient Experiences with COVID’ Research
Rachel to Chair DIPEx International and Continue Patient Experiences with COVID Research Rachel Grob, Director of our Action Research team, has been elected Chair of DIPEx International, a unique global collaboration of scholars, clinicians, and …
June 20, 2022Client Spotlight: Caylee Blosenski Shows Off Gymnastic Skills in Disney+ Movie
A former CPP client, 15 year-old Caylee Blosenski, recently starred in the Disney+ remake of “Cheaper by the Dozen” with Zack Braff and Gabrielle Union. A familiar favorite, this movie features a blended family in …
June 20, 2022Sheray Wallace Wins International Trailblazers Award
Sheray Wallace, a Community Resource Educator at the Center for Patient Partnerships and founder of the Meadowood Health Partnership, recently received the International Trailblazers Award. This award recognizes “Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”. Sheray is …
June 20, 2022
Seamless COVID Response Through Collaboration With the Meadowood Health Partnership
During COVID we formalized a strong partnership with Meadowood Health Partnership, a small but mighty community health initiative, developing creative ways to tackle the barriers that COVID placed on our clients. Through this partnership, Our …
October 12, 2021- Read more
“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.”
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The Center for Patient Partnerships and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
are located on unceded, ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk people.