Amy J.H. Kind, MD, PhD
ajk@medicine.wisc.edu
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
4221 Health Sciences Learning Center
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705-2221
Executive assistant
Stacie Vik
svik@wisc.edu
Amy J. H. Kind, MD, PhD, is the associate dean for social health sciences and programs. She oversees the school’s current and future signature initiatives focused on researching the mechanisms that underlie health disparities so that these drivers of inequity can be targeted and addressed.
Kind serves as founding director of the Center for Health Disparities Research and faculty executive director of the Wisconsin Partnership Program, and provides oversight of the Milwaukee-based Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships. She is a professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology with a clinical interest in Alzheimer’s disease, and serves in other leaderships roles, including leader of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s Dementia Care Research Core and founder of the Department of Medicine’s Health Services and Care Research Program.
Kind is an international leader in mechanistic health disparities research, including studying the social exposome — the sum of social and environmental exposures people experience during their lifetimes — and designing interventions to improve patient care in low-resource areas. In her leadership and oversight roles, she is fosters alignment among health equity and health disparity research efforts to encourage collaboration, impact, innovation, capacity and sustainability.
Kind obtained her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2001. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a geriatrics fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and fellowship in older women’s health at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital. In 2011, she earned a PhD in population health sciences from the School of Medicine and Public Health.
Among numerous other honors, she has received the NIH Beeson Award and the American Geriatrics Society Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation.