Long COVID-19 risk has decreased, thanks to vaccines, recent study suggests
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine & co-authored by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar, found that vaccines have reduced the risk of...
View ArticleWash-U professor develops nasal COVID vaccine that halts transmission (LISTEN)
Jacco Boon, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, spoke with Anthony Morabith on “Show Me Today” about the...
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2024 Summer Research Program Summary
Written by Kim Furlow, communications manager, Institute for Public Health The 2024 Institute for Public Health Summer Research Program has ended with happy students taking homHe vital information and...
View ArticleBiden says he’s ‘too old to stay as president.’ It shows the pull of ageism.
Brian Carpenter, PhD, Co-Director, Harvey A. Friedman Ctr for Aging, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is quoted in an article on ageism & how it is pervasive in American culture – especially in...
View ArticleCovid tied to higher risk of depression, anxiety, PTSD and other conditions,...
“The new research is not the first to show that Covid-19 is associated with an increased risk of mental illness,” said Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor, School of Medicine, & Public Health...
View ArticleCenter co-directors spotlighted on issues in aging
Just because we’re getting older, (we all do it,) does that mean that we are also getting slower in our minds? This popular thinking is called “ageism” and it’s rampant in our society. The Harvey A....
View ArticleSsewamala awarded $3.3 millions in grant fund research for adolescent girls...
The research team of Fred Ssewamala, PhD, Proscovia Nabunya, PhD, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, PhD, & Derek Brown, PhD, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholars, has been awarded a grant from the...
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Missouri Medicaid update: July application processing marginally improves
Written by Timothy McBride, PhD, Bernard Becker Professor, Brown School; co-director, Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research, Institute for Public Health **This report...
View ArticleMissouri Medicaid update: July application processing marginally improves
Based on an analysis by the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research, co-director & Public Health Faculty Scholar, Timothy McBride gives an update on the latest news on...
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Friedman Center for Aging Alumni Spotlight!
In this blog post, we’re introducing a new series, a spotlight on WashU alumni who have centered their training and subsequent professional work on aging. While they were at WashU, these alums were...
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SPOTLIGHT: Center collaborator helps others implement, sustain evidence-based...
Lengnick-Hall Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, PhD As Assistant Professor at the Brown School, Rebecca Lengnick-Hall employs multilevel designs, and integrates implementation science, organizational science,...
View ArticleResearchers take cue from vibes of elephants, spiders
Guy Genin, professor of mechanical engineering & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is a co-investigator on a research team that received a three-year $1.5 million grant from the Human Frontier Science...
View ArticleA new smart mask analyzes your breath to monitor your health
“The biggest challenge has always been collecting real-time samples. This problem has been solved. That's a paradigm shift,” said Rajan Chakrabarty, PhD, professor, McKelvey School of Engineering,...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Center collaborator helps others implement, sustain evidence-based...
Public Health Faculty Scholar, Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, PhD, assistant professor, Brown School, integrates implementation science into her work of understanding how organizations are connected to the...
View ArticleWhat to know about delta-8 and other common vape shop drugs
Ginger Nicol, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Public Health Faculty Scholar, & head of the psychedelics research program, recommends talking to your physician before taking delta-8 THC or...
View ArticleWhat to know about delta-8 and other common vape shop drugs
“It’s hard to even know basic information about what the potency of the drug in many of these products is”, says Ginger Nicol, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Public Health Faculty Scholar &...
View ArticleDitch the needle – new COVID vaccine for nose, mouth reportedly halts...
“The nose and the mouth are the point of entry, so having these cells and these antibodies present right there where the virus comes in is really critical for the most effective vaccines against these...
View ArticleWashU scientists uncover hidden source of snow melt: dark brown carbon
A study co-authored by Rajan Chakrabarty, PhD, professor and Public Health Faculty Scholar, & published in Climate and Atmospheric Science, shows how dark-brown carbon (d-BrC) from wildfires plays...
View ArticleWhat to Know About Delta-8 and Other Common Vape Shop Drugs
According to Ginger Nicol, MD, CEDS, Dipl., ABOM, associate professor of psychiatry, Public Health Faculty Scholar, & head of the psychedelics research program, there is a lack of rigorous research...
View ArticleStrategy evaluated for boosting exercise capacity in heart failure patients
A team led by Linda Peterson, MD, professor, Medicine & Radiology, & Ken Schechtman, PhD, professor, Biostatistics, & Public Health Faculty Scholars, received a $2.9 million NIH grant to...
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