Our research and advocacy efforts are designed for lasting systems change.
Many patients encounter complex challenges as they attempt to navigate our healthcare system.
Systems change approaches alter the components and structures that cause health, financial, and social systems to “behave” in certain ways. This approach tackles root causes for lasting change!
Because factors that influence health are embedded in complex, unpredictable patterns of cause and effect, we train students to recognize those patterns, research evidence to understand what interventions might work, and build partnerships to address them.
As Center for Patient Partnership students work with patients, they discover how public policy and other systems and issues shape these challenges. Students learn how to navigate legal and policy systems, and they also learn how to identify opportunities for change. Insights from patients’ experiences push students to move these cases to “causes,” or issues where they can advocate for change at a broader level.
Our advocacy and research helps to break down barriers! We partner with researchers at the Qualitative and Health Experiences Research Lab, Extension, the Population Health Institute, and more to solve one of our nation’s most complex and intractable challenges.
System Change Efforts
LIFT Wisconsin Tackles Policies That Perpetuate Economic Inequity
CPP's Jill Jacklitz and students developed a policy agenda for LIFT Wisconsin.
Creating Catalyst Films to Transform Healthcare
We partner with the Q-HER Lab and HealthExperiencesUSA to bring patients’ voices to American healthcare. We create Catalyst Films on experiences with depression, long COVID, smoking, cancer, and more.
National Efforts on Quality
CPP's Sarah Davis joined the National Action Team to codesign patient-centered health systems.
Health Justice Clinic Case-to-Cause Projects
When students assist patients, they discover systemic issues that affect whole populations of people.
Then they take action to address those broader issues and learn how small policy changes can make a big difference.
CPP Students Research on Surprise Medical Billing Informs Policy
Answering a call from legislators, CPP students contributed research to inform Wisconsin policy efforts to address surprise medical billing.
