Successfully managing an infectious disease outbreak, such as the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Congo, requires not only controlling the disease but also on maintaining enough trust in the health system that people continue seeking essential care, say WashU Bursky Public Health's Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff. Here, the researchers explain how fear and mistrust can undermine outbreak response; why women and girls are disproportionately affected; and what public health leaders can do to reduce those risks.
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Poor sleep during pregnancy has been associated with gestational diabetes and other health complications. Researchers at WashU Bursky Public Health identified the strongest predictors of poor sleep in late pregnancy.
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Abente has worked in global health in government, nonprofits and academia. These days, she leads the research support unit at Bursky Public Health, overseeing a team of seven research administrators who support faculty through all grant stages — from budgets and proposals to awards and compliance.
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Bursky Public Health faculty members Mary Politi (right), a professor, and Sara Malone, an assistant professor, have joined the editorial team for the journal Patient Education and Counseling Innovation, which publishes research on health promotion, education and communication.
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Elvin Geng, a professor at WashU Medicine and a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, has been named the Virginia Minnich Distinguished Professor of Medicine in recognition of his accomplishments in clinical research and implementation science, and his leadership in education and mentoring.
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Media coverage of WashU Bursky Public Health's people, research, and other news.
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"Public health has not listened effectively to what people want," said Bursky Public Health Dean Sandro Galea. With colleagues, Galea has embarked upon the Purple Public Health Project, an effort to recalibrate how the field engages the public in a time of political division. (Source: The New York Times)
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"There’s no doubt that the $50 billion investment for rural health transformation is helpful," said Timothy McBride, a professor at Bursky Public Health. “But the net effect is probably going to be that the rural health systems will be worse off.” (Source: CNN)
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WashU Medicine's Jorge Llibre-Guerra, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, led a study that revealed that dementia has increased significantly in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades, a trend that contrasts with that observed in the United States and other high-income nations, where the prevalence of this disease has remained stable or even declined. (Source: Voz)
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For the third year in a row, iHeard STL asked a panel of St. Louis adults to name the one challenge that, if addressed, would have the greatest benefit for St. Louis. Respondents chose from 12 options. The top concerns stayed the same: crime, housing and jobs.
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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Bursky Public Health's Mohammed Abba-Aji, a postdoctoral researcher; Salma Abdalla, an associate professor; and Sandro Galea, the dean; co-authored, "Understanding the impact of natural disasters on post-traumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms: an examination of counterfactual displacement scenarios," published in PLoS Mental Health.
The Brown School's Mitra Naseh, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, is the first and corresponding author on, "A scoping review of economic integration interventions and programs for refugees," published in Humanities and Social Sciences Publications.
Bursky Public Health secondary faculty member Denise Wilfley, a WashU Medicine professor, "Family-based behavioral treatment for childhood obesity adapted to align with the MOHealthNet Medicaid benefit: results of the Missouri Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study," published in Childhood Obesity.
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WashU undergrad Danielle Cheong spent her summer testing soil samples for lead contamination as part of Bursky Public Health's Summer Experience Program. Led by the school's Office of Innovation, the program is designed to cultivate the next generation of public health leaders. Cheong took part in the program via the Solutions through Planetary Health Research (SPHERE) network, which focuses on research at the intersection of human health and environmental challenges.
(Video credit: Zachary Linhares/Bursky Public Health)
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| What drives inequality in America, and how can we level the playing field?
In this episode, Bursky Public Health Dean Sandro Galea and Stanford University’s Lukas Althoff discuss socioeconomic inequality in the United States, and what efforts have the best return on increasing opportunity for all. Spoiler alert: enhancing the quality and accessibility of education is key. This is Episode 11 of Ideas Matter, a podcast hosted by Dean Galea and designed to inform a better conversation about what matters most.
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| How do values shape the actions and agenda of public health science?
Host Salma Abdalla sits down with philosopher Anya Plutynski to talk about values: how they are inherently embedded in every decision that scientists make, and why they should not be considered a contaminant of science. This episode is part of the "Building Better Ways of Knowing" mini-series of the "Complicating the Narrative” podcast. The podcast is hosted by Abdalla, an associate professor at Bursky Public Health, and supported by WashU Bursky Public Health and the Frick Initiative.
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