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Focus groups help researchers learn how older people experience ageism
Written by Kim Furlow, Communication Programs Manager, Institute for Public Health How do older adults understand and experience ageism? The Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, is organizing...
View ArticleBowel cancer ‘red flags’: Four signs you should see a doctor now – even if...
Associate professor and Public Health Faculty Scholar, Yin Cao, ScD, and team, studied data on early-onset bowel cancer and found four key early warning signs that indicated an increased risk of bowel...
View ArticleA call for equity in digital health tool design
Maura Kepper, assistant professor, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is senior author of “How to Design Equitable Digital Health Tools,” providing strategies for making future digital...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Coverage in Missouri, 2008-23: Impact of Medicaid Expansion,...
Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research co-director & Public Health Faculty Scholar, Timothy McBride, PhD, reviews changes in MO insurance coverage from recent Census...
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Center releases policy brief on key findings on MO health insurance coverage,...
The percentage of people without health insurance dropped significantly over the 2019-2023 period, reflecting major changes to the health policy landscape (the Medicaid expansion, enacted in 2021) and...
View ArticleNew NSF grant to fund faculty equity programs and new center focused on civic...
Diana Parra Perez, PhD, assistant professor, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is a co-PI on $3 million five-year National Science Foundation ADVANCE-Institutional Transformation grant...
View ArticleGalea named editor of JAMA Health Forum
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, dean designate of WashU's planned School of Public Health has been named editor in chief of JAMA Health Forum, effective Jan. 1.
View ArticleMissouri bird flu case raises questions for scientists
Jacco Boon, PhD, associate professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, was a guest on NPR’s Weekend Edition talking about an unusual...
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The Right Fit: My role as an intern with the Center for Human Rights, Gender...
Written by: Riley Novak, BA candidate Global Studies/Spanish (2025) The author in front of WashU Brookings Hall Here at Washington University (WashU), there are a wealth of opportunities for students...
View ArticleLocal collaboration key to effective evidence-based training, study finds
Public Health Faculty Scholar, Stephanie Mazzuca-Ragan, assistant professor at the Brown School leads a study showing the value of collaborating with local health departments to deliver training in...
View ArticleLocal collaboration key to effective evidence-based training, study finds
A study led by Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan, assistant professor, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is showing the importance of collaboration with public health departments & other...
View ArticleWashU Medicine to offer reproductive sciences master’s program
WashU’s School of Medicine is starting a master’s program in reproductive sciences & accepting applications for its inaugural cohort. Sarah England, PhD, director, Center for Reproductive Health...
View ArticleThey are rigging the US election, and we’re letting them get away with it
Liberty Vittert, PhD, professor of the practice of data Science at Olin and Public Health Faculty Scholar, explains in an opinion piece she wrote for “The Hill,” how third parties interfere with the...
View ArticleWhat Repeat COVID Infections Do to Your Body, According to Science
Any infection with COVID can cause your immune system to “go awry or develop some form of dysfunction,” says Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor of Medicine and Public Health Faculty Scholar, in an...
View ArticleFriedman Center grant to study experiences of ageism
The Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, led by Public Health Faculty Scholars Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, & Brian Carpenter, PhD, has received a $136,000 grant from the RRF Foundation for Aging to...
View ArticleNew census data reveals significant drop in uninsured Missourians
Analysis by the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research has found that the uninsured rate in Missouri has dropped significantly, according to Timothy McBride, center...
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Missing Peace Scholar Summer Workshop highlights expertise in research on...
Missing Peace Workshop attendees including center members Kim Thuy Seelinger, Julia López, and Adriana Aramburu pictured at top of staircase | Photo: The US Institute of Peace Established in 2012, the...
View ArticleStraight talk: Upcoming series aims to help bridge the gap between Black...
Written by Kim Furlow, communications manager, Institute for Public Health What do members of our community think about the way faculty and researchers engage with research participants and partners?...
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Register for the 2024 Public Health at WashU Annual Conference, Oct. 21-22
Written by Kim Furlow, communication programs manager, Institute for Public Health How can we ensure that the latest technological innovations in health care are equitable and accessible to all? How...
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