A new teaching assistantship program at WashU Public Health is designed to strengthen teaching and learning by providing students with professional development and mentorship; faculty with teaching assistance; and students in the classes with additional learning resources.
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Longer lives often come with a higher likelihood of chronic illness or physical or cognitive impairment. Two new nationally representative studies co-authored by WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea examine these pressures from different angles.
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Starting in clinical psychology and landing in public health, Luke's work focuses on entire systems that shape population health, and a framework he helped develop that helps demonstrate the real-world impact of scientific work.
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The weekly Talking Public Health seminar series features presentations by leading thinkers in public health at WashU and elsewhere. Emmanuel Tetteh (shown above), a research assistant professor at WashU Public Health, gave a talk Wednesday, January 28, titled, “A systems approach to expand HIV/STI testing access in St. Louis: The Clear Path Collaborative.”
This week we have three Talking Public Health presentations. Jean O'Connor, director of the health practice group at Econometrica, will give a talk titled, "Science, law, and leadership: creating systems that promote health," at noon Tuesday, February 3, in 4240 Duncan's Havana Room and via Zoom.
Derek Brown, a WashU Public Health professor and health economist, will give a talk titled, “Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Improve Public Health,” at noon Wednesday, February 4, in 4240 Duncan's Havana Room and via Zoom.
Proscovia Nabunya, an associate professor and director of the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD) at the Brown School, will give a talk titled, "Innovative global health approaches to addressing HIV stigma and mental health challenges among youth and families in low-resource settings," at noon Thursday, February 5, in 4240 Duncan's Havana Room and via Zoom.
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Media coverage of WashU Public Health's people, research, and other news.
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| A study co-authored by the Brown School's Cal Halvorsen, a member of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty, showed that seniors who volunteer age more slowly. (Source: Washington Post)
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On January 7, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Agriculture (USDA) released new dietary guidelines for Americans. Within 10 days, just over half of St. Louis adults polled (50.3%) had heard about the change.
iHeard is a listening project of the Health Communication Research Laboratory at WashU Public Health. iHeard surveys about 200 people who live or work in St. Louis weekly to find out what they know, believe and care about in regard to health.
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WashU Public Health's Sara Malone and Maura Kepper, both assistant professors, co-authored, "Advancing global pediatric cancer survivorship care: barriers, facilitators, and implementation strategies," published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.
Burel Goodin, a professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine and a member of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty, is the senior author on "Felt stigma in youth with disorders of gut–brain interaction: implications for abdominal pain, sleep, and mood," published in Clinical Pediatrics.
Karen Joynt-Maddox, a professor of medicine at WashU Medicine, a member of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty, and a co-director of WashU Public Health's Policy and Structural Solutions research network, is the senior author on "Hospitalizations and mortality among Medicare beneficiaries at cardiovascular risk: disruptions and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic," published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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The winter storm that blanketed the region in snow last weekend transformed WashU's Danforth Campus into a picturesque landscape. The snow is expected to hang around for another week at least, so there's still time to enjoy its beauty — but it's cold out there, so be sure to dress warmly!
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Pharmaceuticals are a central and costly element of the U.S. health-care system. In this episode, "In Search of US Pharmaceutical Policy Innovation," Aaron S. Kesselheim, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, joins JAMA Health Forum Editor-in-chief Sandro Galea to discuss the challenge and opportunity of delivering affordable drugs to as many people as possible.
For related content, see "In Search of Pharmaceutical Policy Innovation in the U.S.," an editorial published in JAMA Health Forum. It is co-authored by Dean Galea and Julie Donohue, the latter of the Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health.
"JAMA Health Forum Conversations," is a JAMA Network podcast hosted by Dean Sandro Galea.
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In The Healthiest Goldfish, Dean Galea shares his thoughts on the moment we are in and "our role in an unsettled, tumultuous time."
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| Public Health Ideas convenings |
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| Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 9 a.m. CT
At WashU and online
This gathering will explore how implementation science — the field that studies how to put evidence into practice — can help us communicate more effectively so that accurate, trustworthy health information is able to hold its ground in a crowded information landscape.
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