Public health researchers and practitioners from around the world will meet in South Africa in September to discuss how to bridge the gap between evidence and practice, and accelerate progress toward ending HIV as a global public health problem.
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Research led by Bursky Public Health's Lindsey Filiatreau highlights the importance of continuous HIV care as rural communities face added barriers to treatment, testing and prevention.
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The first direct evidence that some parts of Latin America are moving in the opposite direction of dropping dementia rates in wealthy nations was provided by a study led by WashU Medicine's Jorge Llibre-Guerra, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty.
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A career that began in the U.S. Army caring for active-duty personnel and their families has evolved into leading research, mentorship, and partnerships reshaping cardiovascular health in St. Louis and around the world.
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Bursky Public Health's Anusha Vable helped organize a National Institute on Aging-sponsored workshop on food insecurity and cognitive health, including Alzheimer's disease. At the workshop, she gave a talk on sex differences.
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WashU Medicine's Mark Huffman, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, joins NIH center focused on advancing health research and training worldwide.
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A study led by Bursky Public Health's Tracy Bastain found that exposure to common air pollutants during early pregnancy may increase the risk of persistent depressive symptoms throughout pregnancy. (Source: Ladue News)
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Arts & Sciences' Carol Camp Yeakey, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, joined the NPR affiliate in Boston to discuss the new federal housing act. "Houses are more than just shelter. Housing is wealth, and housing is health," she said. (Source: WBUR)
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“For kids who have school avoidance issues and a lot of anxiety around school, it can really be a time of great trepidation and worry, both for them and their parents," said WashU Medicine's Cynthia Rogers, a child psychiatrist and a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty. (Source: St. Louis Magazine)
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The nation’s largest known Cyclospora outbreak just became much larger and struck closer to home. According to a new report, six new states are now linked to the outbreak, including Missouri with 1,095 cases. The latest iHeard STL poll found that most St. Louisans are following news about the Cyclospora outbreak, and few believe it’s under control.
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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Morgan Shields, an assistant professor at Bursky Public Health, co-authored, "Case v. Montana and the future of behavioral health crisis response," published in Psychiatric Services.
WashU Medicine’s Burel Gooding, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, is the senior author on, “Accelerated pace of biological aging in people with HIV and insomnia living in southeastern United States: A cross-sectional study,” published in the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
Bursky Public Health faculty members Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff co-authored, “Evaluating the relationship between rental assistance and self-reliance and well-being among displaced populations: A propensity score–matched analysis,” published in SSM – Population Health.
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Missouri has been hard hit by the nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, which causes severe diarrhea. Bursky Public Health Professor Jen Layden, an infectious diseases physician, explains what cyclosporiasis is, how public health officials are responding to the outbreak, and what people can do to keep themselves safe.
Watch on YouTube →
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Rebecca Messbarger, a professor of Italian at WashU Arts & Sciences, joins host Salma Abdalla to discuss how history and individual stories can shape public health research, policy and practice, using examples from 18th-century Bologna, the plague of 1348 and COVID-19.
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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The latest post in The Healthiest Goldfish is titled, "Why Science?" It is part two of a three-part series on universities, science, and the promotion of health as our social purpose.
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