Jonathan Temte MD, PhD
Associate Dean for Public Health and Community Engagement; Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WisconsinDr. Jonathan Temte is Associate Dean for Public Health and Community Engagement at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where he also serves as professor of Family Medicine and Community Health. He teaches family practice residents and practices full-spectrum primary care medicine to an under-served and highly diverse community at Wingra Family Medical Center in Madison, Wisconsin.
Dr. Temte served on the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) from 2008 to 2015, becoming the first family physician to serve as chair (2012–2015). During his tenure at ACIP, he chaired Work Groups on MMRV Safety, Evidence-Based Recommendations, and MMR Vaccine. He currently chairs the Wisconsin Council on Immunization Practices, is a member of the CDC’s Board of Scientific Counselors, and is the AAFP representative on the ACIP COVID-19 Vaccine Work Group. He is the principal investigator of the Wisconsin Optional Influenza Surveillance Enhancements Program and the Oregon Child Absenteeism Due to Respiratory Disease Study.
His current research interests include viral disease surveillance in primary care and communities, seasonality and epidemiology of influenza, and climate change and health in primary care.
Disclosures
- Advisory boards: Healthy Climate Wisconsin (volunteer)
- Grants/research: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Quidel Corporation (in-kind support only)
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Influenza
- Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus
- Management of Acute Sinusitis
- Antibiotic Use and Outcomes in the Acute Setting Under Management by an Infectious Diseases Team Versus Other Clinical Teams
- Insect Repellants Safe to Prevent Zika Infection During Pregnancy
- The When and Where of Potential Zika
- Review of Cellulitis
- Active Tuberculosis in Psoriasis Patients Treated With TNF Antagonists
- CDC: FluMist Nasal Flu Vaccine Should Not Be Used 2016-2017
- Superbug: mcr-1, blaCTX-M and an E. coli UTI