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Dashboards created by researchers at WashU Bursky Public Health display data on the climate resilience of affordable housing developments in an easy-to-understand format. The dashboards provide critical data to help policymakers and planners design housing that will promote health even in the face of climate change.
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Over more than 20 years working in public health at WashU, Leah Kemper, MPH, has worn many hats. She brings insights from her varied career to her current role recruiting and supporting faculty at all stages of their careers.
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Dean Galea visits with Jacquelyn Benson, PhD, a WashU Medicine associate professor of medicine in the Division of Palliative Medicine, and a member of the secondary faculty at WashU Bursky Public Health. The two discussed the well-being of older adults and caregivers.
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Data drawn from 23-country survey of people's needs, expectations, experiences and confidence in their health systems
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Lora Iannotti (primary faculty), Bo Li (secondary faculty), Denise Wilfley (secondary faculty) and Mengxin Yu (secondary faculty) were all recipients of the awards.
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Media coverage of WashU Bursky Public Health's people, research, and other news.
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Tim McBride, primary faculty at Bursky Public Health, speaks to steep drop in Obamacare marketplace enrollment in Missouri, following national trend. (Source: STLPR)
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As a St. Louis Board of Aldermen committee prepared to meet and discuss zoning rules for where data centers can be built, a new iHeard STL survey shows that 42% of St. Louis adults heard in the last week that data centers affect nearby drinking water.
iHeard is a listening project of the Health Communication Research Laboratory at WashU Bursky Public Health. iHeard surveys about 200 people each week who live or work in St. Louis, to find out what they know, believe and care about in regard to health.
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WashU Bursky School of Public Health
Summer heat isn’t just uncomfortable. As climate change makes heat waves hotter and more frequent, it’s important to understand how heat can impact our health.
Carrie Breton leads a team of researchers at WashU Bursky School of Public Health who are working to better understand how extreme heat affects pregnancy outcomes. Their new research found biomarkers of heat exposure during pregnancy that may help predict the risk of preterm birth.
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| How can India’s caste system inform our efforts to address racism and injustice globally?
In this episode of Ideas Matter, WashU’s Sandro Galea, dean of the Bursky School of Public Health, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Suraj Yengde explore the historical foundations of caste and the ways in which it mirrors the social dynamics of our world today.
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The Moment will take a summer pause until August 9th. We hope all our readers are having a wonderful summer.
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Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky School of Public Health
at Washington University in St. Louis
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
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