Trina Salm Ward

Trina Salm Ward, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research focuses on disparities in infant and maternal health, and specifically, on infant mortality.  She is currently investigating infant sleep practices and risk of sleep-related infant deaths with a long-term goal of developing culturally-salient interventions aimed at reducing racial disparities in infant mortality.