Sarah Geiger

2012-2014 Cohort

Sarah Geiger received her MS in Community Health (Epidemiology) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her PhD in Public Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from West Virginia University. Sarah worked in the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health in Madison with a secondary placement at the City of Milwaukee Health Department. In Madison, Sarah gained new preparedness experience working on extreme heat response, culminating in a manuscript evaluating heat fatalities of summer 2012. She was also involved with the occupational health surveillance program, which allowed her the opportunity to work with several state-level data sets while calculating occupational health indicators. Preceptor: Chuck Warzecha and Geof Swain


The Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship is an initiative of the UW Population Health Institute’s Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) Group. The Fellowship program is funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.