Category: News

JCOIN Project Expands Access to Live-Saving Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Jails

From the Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network Newsletter, March 2025   In a recent study published in Implementation Science, researchers from JCOIN’s Coordination and Translation Center (CTC) examined strategies to provide more effective technical assistance models to help jails implement medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and enhance public safety. The JCOIN trial tested three …

Pandemic shapes future of mental health, addiction therapy, from a distance

CHESS Deputy Director Todd Molfenter highlights the work done by the Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center to assist mental health providers adopt telehealth practices.

New Endowed ISyE Chair Honors CHESS Director

Thanks to several alumni gifts, including a lead contribution from Tom and Suzanne Werner that is the largest gift in department history, ISyE’s department chair has been endowed with a $3 million fund and named in Gustafson’s honor.

UW-Madison faculty, students help create COVID-19 app for Wisconsinites

COVID-19 Wisconsin Connect, a free desktop and mobile app that provides accurate information, social support and helpful resources to Wisconsinites, launches today.

Serving Citizen Need by Improving Mental Health Services

ISyE’s Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) is part of a new effort by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen mental health services across the nation. CHESS received a $3.7 million, five-year grant in August 2018 to serve as the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center for Region 5, which includes …

UW–Madison joins national network to combat opioid epidemic, substance abuse disorders

With a new $3.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, researchers at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies — housed in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at UW–Madison — have joined a national network of Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs).