A symposium April 14 led by WashU Public Health’s Global Health Futures research network will bring together leading voices to consider global health's future amid reduced financial commitments and calls to reform or replace institutions that have long underpinned global health policy and coordination.
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The event April 8 — in celebration of National Public Health Week — will feature a lecture from John A. Rich, director of the Rush BMO Institute for Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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A member of the Data Management & Analytics team at WashU Public Health, Cooper supports public health research with a wide range of data services.
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This week, there will be another four presentations:
Margaret E. Kruk, the Distinguished Professor of Health Systems and Medicine at WashU Medicine, director of the QuEST Network, and a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health, will present, “Revisiting health system assumptions with insights from populations.” Her talk will be at noon Monday, March 30, in the Danforth University Center (DUC), Room 234.
Yuanyuan Luan, a postdoctoral fellow in biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health, will present, “Reliable inference from wearable functional data: Correcting measurement error in generalized functional regression,” at noon Tuesday, March 31, in the Danforth University Center (DUC) Room 234.
Stephen Salerno, a postdoctoral fellow in biostatistics at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, will give a talk titled, “Public health in a world where we can predict anything,” at noon Wednesday, April 1, in 4240 Duncan's Havana Room.
Octavio Mesner, a research assistant professor at the Brown School, will give a talk titled, “Entropy, causation, and sexually transmitted infections," at noon Thursday, April 2, in 4240 Duncan's Havana Room.
To see the school's collection of recordings, see here.
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Media coverage of WashU Public Health's people, research, and other news.
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The bacteria that cause anthrax cycle between land and the animals that rely on that land – including people, writes Hannah Kinzer, a PhD candidate in public health sciences at WashU Public Health. (Source: The Conversation)
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Drugmakers could delay product launches in other countries, making it impossible to see whether they are selling medicine at the most-favored nation prices in the U.S. until after their deals expire, says WashU Law's Rachel Sachs, also of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty. (Source: STAT News)
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New U.S. food guidelines emphasize eating more protein. Yet prices for many protein sources are rising. iHeard asked St. Louis adults how beef prices are affecting them.
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 Rachel Tabak, an associate professor; Cindy Schwarz, associate director of the school's Center for Obesity Prevention and Policy Research; Debra Haire-Joshu, the Joyce and Chauncy Buchheit Professor in Public Health; and Amanda Gilbert, a postdoctoral researcher, co-authored, "Application of implementation science frameworks to a community-based healthy eating and activity intervention: a cross-sectional analysis," published in Frontiers in Health Services.
Emmanuel Tetteh, a research assistant professor at WashU Public Health, is the senior author on, “Leveraging the Translational Science Benefits Model to plan and measure early impact in the heart failure polypill implementation trial in Sri Lanka,” published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. WashU Public Health co-authors include Doug Luke, the Distinguished Professor in Public Health Systems Science; Anna La Manna, manager of research translation; Ella Clark, a senior research assistant; and WashU Medicine’s Mark Huffman, a member of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty.
WashU Public Health PhD student Luis Fuenmayor is the last and co-corresponding author on, “Unveiling the genitourinary phenotype of long COVID: a systematic review and meta-analysis,” published in International Urology and Nephrology.
Clarification: In the February 15 issue of The Moment, we failed to include Sarah Stolker, a PhD student in public health sciences in a "Papers of note" summary. Stolker is the first and corresponding author on, "Factors associated with lymphedema therapist willingness to refer to surgery," published in Supportive Care in Cancer.
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| Jemima Akyea Quartey
One of the most fulfilling moments in my MPH journey so far has been stepping into the classroom not as a student, but in a teaching role.
This experience was made possible through the Nurturing Future Teachers Program, an initiative by the WashU School of Public Health that is intentionally creating opportunities for students to grow as educators and leaders.
As a Teaching Assistant at the WashU School of Public Health, I had the opportunity to lead a session on oral health delivery in the U.S as part of the Health Policy & Health Administration course. It was incredibly rewarding to bring my background in dentistry into a policy space and spark conversations around an area that is often overlooked in the US healthcare system.
I’m especially grateful to M. Ryan Barker for his mentorship and for trusting me with this opportunity.
See the LinkedIn post.
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What happens when public health gets it wrong? In this episode, "Beyond Blame: Understanding Public Health Errors," part of the Purple Public Health Project, Salma Abdalla speaks with Itai Bavli about a question the field rarely confronts directly: What is a public health error? They explore how public health errors differ from medical errors, focusing on decisions that shape entire populations rather than individual patients. They examine how errors have shaped major public health challenges such as the opioid epidemic, unpack the complexity of identifying errors in real time, and discuss how political and professional biases can influence which harms are recognized and which are ignored.
"Complicating the Narrative” is hosted by Abdalla, an assistant professor of public health, and supported by WashU Public Health and the Frick Initiative.
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Giving Day is April 8! This year, on April 8, the School of Public Health will participate for the first time in WashU’s annual Giving Day. Faculty, students and staff from all corners of the university are coming together on Giving Day as One WashU for a 24-hour fundraising blitz. It’s easy to join in: Make a gift of any amount to any WashU fund before midnight Wednesday, April 8 — or give early, using this link. Your contribution will help us reach our universitywide goal of 2,500 donors and unlock a $250,000 challenge gift. Please consider a gift to the School of Public Health to support our future public health leaders and critical research. If you have questions about making a gift, please reach out to Caitlin Bristow.
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Systems science training opportunity: Applications are open for the seventh annual Systems Science for Social Impact Summer Training Institute, August 3-7 at WashU. Participants get a hands-on introduction to systems science methods, with a focus on five main tracks: Intro to Systems; Agent-based Modeling; Group Model Building; Social Network Analysis; and System Dynamics. Each participant reviews the major concepts of their chosen track/method, learns analytic best practices, and applies the methods to real-world data. The workshops are designed for faculty, advanced graduate students, recent graduates, and professionals from public health, social work, and social sciences. Candidates will be accepted on a monthly basis through July 24. See here for more information.
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| Public Health Ideas convenings |
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| Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 4 p.m. CT
At WashU and online
Dean Galea will lead a panel featuring national leaders in public health and their thoughts on the erosion of public health infrastructure funding and the consequences for preparedness, workforce stability, and population health. They will discuss strategies to safeguard core public health functions, and other ideas regarding population health.
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| Friday, April 3, 2026, 9 a.m. CT
At WashU and online
This symposium, hosted by WashU Public Health and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, brings together scholars, community advocates, and practitioners to explore critical intersections of race and public health. The participants will explore how to translate scholarship into actionable strategies that address racial health inequities.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 4 p.m. CT
At WashU and online
WashU Public Health and Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice together host the St. Louis Public Health Annual Lectureship to celebrate National Public Health Week and the impact of public health on our nation’s well-being.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 9 a.m. CT
At WashU and online
This symposium, led by WashU Public Health’s Global Health Futures research network, will convene leading voices to consider global health's future amid reduced commitments to health-related development assistance, as well as calls to reform or replace the institutions underpinning global health policy and coordination since the end of World War II.
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