Data Contacts for the Bureau of Health Information and Policy

All persons listed can also be reached by mail:

Bureau of Health Information and Policy
Division of Public Health 
Department of Health and Family Services
PO Box 2659
Madison WI  53701-2659

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Cancer

Laura Stephenson             stephla@dhfs.state.wi.us               (608) 266-8926
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Health Care Information

Hospital-based health care data and custom reports (hospital inpatient, emergency department  and ambulatory surgery records) for Wisconsin state and local agencies:
Richard Miller                      millere1@dhfs.state.wi.us              (608) 267-3858

Note: Others wishing to purchase hospital inpatient or facility data or analyses should contact the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center at (608) 274-1820 or e-mail WHAInfoCenter@wha.org. Limited and less timely Wisconsin hospital inpatient data is also available from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Costs and Utilization Project (HCUP).

Linked health care records (creating patient-level information from inpatient, emergency department, office visit and ambulatory surgery records)
Richard Miller                      millere1@dhfs.state.wi.us              (608) 267-3858

Physician office visit data
Audrey Nohel                       nohelae@dhfs.state.wi.us              (608) 267-0244

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Health Insurance Statistics

Eleanor Cautley                   cautlek@dhfs.state.wi.us               (608) 267-9545
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Health Surveys

Behavioral Risk Factor Survey
Anne Ziege                           ziegeal@dhfs.state.wi.us               (608) 267-9821

Family Health Survey
Eleanor Cautley                    cautlek@dhfs.state.wi.us               (608) 267-9545
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Local Data

Public Health Profiles
Yiwu Zhang                           zhangyw@dhfs.state.wi.us             (608) 267-0334

Healthy People 2010 Local Data Package
Anne Ziege                           ziegeal@dhfs.state.wi.us               (608) 267-9821

WISH data query system
Torrey Nelson                       nelsotp@dhfs.state.wi.us               (608) 267-0235

Community Health Profiles--Infants and Pregnant Women
Torrey Nelson                       nelsotp@dhfs.state.wi.us               (608) 267-0235

Community Health Profiles--People with Chronic Conditions
Torrey Nelson                       nelsotp@dhfs.state.wi.us               (608) 267-0235

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Population Estimates

Karl Pearson                         pearskt@dhfs.state.wi.us              (608) 266-1920
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Vital Statistics

Births and infant deaths
Laura Ninneman                   ninnell@dhfs.state.wi.us                (608) 266-2838

Deaths
Joyce Knapton                      knaptj@dhfs.state.wi.us                 (608) 267-7815

Life expectancy
Karl Pearson                         pearskt@dhfs.state.wi.us              (608) 266-1920

Marriages and divorces
Joyce Knapton                      knaptj@dhfs.state.wi.us                 (608) 267-7815

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Wisconsin Vital Records Services - Birth, death, marriage, divorce records.

Last Revised: January 04, 2008