11 Brown School faculty named to ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists’ list
Ten public health faculty scholars and Brown School faculty have been included in the 2024 Stanford University-Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists list – honoring the most-cited researchers.
View ArticleWashU Medicine, BJC Health System launch Center for Health AI
Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, professor of medicine and public health faculty scholar will lead the new Center for Health AI, launched by WashU Medicine & BJC Health System to utilize AI technologies for...
View ArticleFood aid interventions can curb climate change-induced hardship. But should...
“Because USAID’s investments can be so consequential for receiving countries, it’s important they’re done right,” said Lora Iannotti, PhD, professor, Brown School, & public health faculty scholar,...
View ArticleStudy reveals COVID-19’s impact on global city mobility
Rodrigo Reis, PhD, professor, Brown School, & public health faculty scholar, co-authored a study published in The Lancet Public Health showing how the COVID-19 pandemic changed mobility patterns...
View Article32-Hour Workweek: How It Could Work and Who Is Advocating for It
Liberty Vittert, PhD, professor & public health faculty scholar, who testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions in March, is quoted in an article about...
View ArticleWashU faculty, alumni lead effort to repair harms caused by systemic racism...
Carol Camp Yeakey, PhD, professor of arts & sciences, & public health faculty scholar, contributed to the St. Louis Reparations Commission’s report on St. Louis’ history of slavery &...
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Global Health Week features experts in nutrition, air quality & global health...
Written by Ashley Bardon, Isheeta Gupta, Aryan Kumar, Danielle Serota, and Brenna Simmons Another successful annual Global Health Week culminated with a “Meet the Experts” Student Social. An...
View ArticleThe main events: How scenes from life shape consciousness, build memories
Jeffrey Zacks, PhD, Chair, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences & public health faculty scholar, led a study to be published in PNAS Nexus that researched how the brain perceives,...
View ArticleStudy reveals COVID-19’s impact on global city mobility
“COVID-19 created a global ‘natural experiment,’ giving us a unique opportunity to study real-time changes in urban mobility,” said Rodrigo Reis, professor, Brown School, & public health faculty...
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Kevin Volpp Seminar: AHA’s Health Care by Food Initiative
Written by Mo Farrell, LMSW, manager, Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research, Institute for Public Health The United States spends more money on health care than any...
View ArticleProbiotic delivers anticancer drug to the gut
“Our hope is that one day the probiotic could be added to the arsenal of therapies to help shrink tumors in people,” said public health faculty scholar Gautam Dantas, PhD, professor and senior author...
View ArticleShades of blue
Ross Brownson, PhD, professor of public health & public health faculty scholar, says that the blue zones recommendations are "good, safe messages", but he has issues with their advice on alcohol...
View ArticleICC issues arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu, former defense minister...
Leila Sadat, JD, professor of international criminal law & public health faculty scholar, spoke on NPR’s Here & Now about arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu &...
View ArticleAdvisory: Heart health plummeting in rural areas in SD and nationwide
Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, co-director, Ctr for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research, & public health faculty scholar, talks about the causes for the increasing cardiovascular...
View ArticleLateef wins grant to study Afrocentric strengths in Black youth education
Public health faculty scholar Husain Lateef, PhD, assistant professor, Brown School, received a two-year grant from the Brady Education Foundation for research on how Afrocentric socialization events...
View ArticleAI could burn you out
An article on AI burnout mentions The Center for Health AI, established by WashU Medicine & BJC Health System, & co-led by public health faculty scholar Philip Payne, PhD, to prepare medical...
View ArticleThe Biden Administration Made A Big Decision On Ozempic, But RFK Jr. Could...
Public health faculty scholar and professor of law Rachel Sachs, JD, is quoted in a HuffPost article on how RFK Jr. will be the one deciding who can gain access to breakthrough anti-obesity medications...
View ArticleAsymptomatic Incidence of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance...
Su-Hsin Chang, PhD, associate professor of surgery & public health faculty scholar, co-authored “Asymptomatic incidence of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and preclinical...
View ArticleBrantmeier to serve on national Fulbright committee
Cindy Brantmeier, PhD, professor, Applied Linguistics, International & Area Studies, & public health faculty scholar, has been invited by the U.S. Department of State & Institute of...
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Center awards seed grants to projects in human rights, gender and migration
The Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration announces seed grant funding for three projects led by WashU faculty and students working at the intersection of human rights, gender and migration....
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