Center for Health, Energy, and Environmental Research
Exploring questions about the health impacts of energy, transportation, land use, and infrastructure choices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Communities need data to help make choices about their future
There is an urgent need to address the health impacts of increasing energy demand, extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and rising temperatures. Communities need data and expertise about the potential impacts, benefits or harms, of different choices to support decision making that will impact communities now and into the future. CHEER brings together researchers from across multiple institutions and disciplines with community leaders in Milwaukee to tackle questions around energy, land use, transportation, and infrastructure choices to identify opportunities and health priorities for communities to produce policy-relevant research.
CHEER is a multi-institutional exploratory research center funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Member institutions include the University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Medical College of Wisconsin.
CHEER is funded by the NIEHS through their P20 exploratory center funding mechanism. The content of this website is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
CHEER Administration is supported by the Department of Population Health Sciences at UW–Madison.
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726