Bursky Public Health’s Summer Experience Program offers undergrads and MPH students hands-on experience with diverse aspects of public health research and practice.
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| Center based at Bursky Public Health draws on universitywide expertise to address major public health challenge.
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| Findings underscore need to boost trust to improve public health outcomes.
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Inspired by his own experiences with conflict and displacement, Tutlam focuses on understanding and addressing the challenges facing young people and families affected by war, poverty and displacement.
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This week, Rebecca Messbarger, PhD, a professor of Italian and the director of Medical Humanities at WashU Arts & Sciences, and a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, will give a presentation on “The Public Body: Rethinking the Origins of Public Health in Enlightenment Florence.” Her talk will be at noon CT on Wednesday, September 16, in the Havana Room of 4240 Duncan. Register here to attend in person or to get the Zoom link.
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Media coverage of WashU Bursky Public Health's people, research, and other news.
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The investment will empower the school to lean into its vision of building a world-class, research-intensive institution with a real commitment to local and global impact. (Source: Ladue News)
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“It’s important to appreciate this isn’t a one-off event, it’s systematic," said Bursky Public Health's Morgan Shields, an expert on psychiatric care quality. "What Lindsay did is so rare, so we rarely see such huge consequences of a systematic issue, but people do bear the cost. It’s just that we don’t see it.” (Source: STAT News)
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Making it more difficult to get exemptions will likely not solve the underlying issues of mistrust and confusion, said infectious diseases physician Jen Layden, a professor and the associate dean for practice at Bursky Public Health. (Source: St. Louis Public Radio)
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Molly McNairy, a physician and the director of the division of general medicine & geriatrics at WashU Medicine, sits down with Bursky Public Health Dean Sandro Galea to discuss the role of primary care in public health.
Public Health Ideas features discussions between Dean Galea and researchers at WashU and elsewhere on the big ideas in public health.
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A new Gallup poll found that only 54% of U.S. adults report drinking alcohol. It is the lowest rate reported since tracking began in 1939. Scientists aren’t sure yet why drinking rates are falling, so iHeard STL asked St. Louisans to share their theories. They delivered!
iHeard is a listening project of the Health Communication Research Laboratory at Bursky 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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Bursky Public Health PhD student Isabelle Howerton is the first and corresponding author on, “A latent class analysis characterizing patterns of intimate partner violence victimization in a Missouri sample of adults enrolled in a substance use recovery program,” published in Substance Use & Addiction Journal. Co-authors include WashU Medicine’s Devin Banks, Hannah Szlyk and Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, all members of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty.
Lora Iannotti, a professor at Bursky Public Health, is the lead author on, “Pregnancy diet based on ancestral patterns increases growth in subcortical fetal brain regions,” published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Bursky Public Health co-authors include Rachel Zimmerman, Elizabeth Hahn, Gifty Aboagyeh-Mensah and Timothy Zielonko.
WashU Medicine’s Beth Prusaczyk, a Bursky Public Health secondary faculty member, and Bursky Public Health’s Jessica Thein and Bobbi Carothers co-authored, “A social network analysis of rural dementia-related home- and community-based service providers,” published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging.
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| With a recent executive order recommending changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, federal policy is at odds with leading medical organization recommendations.
Infectious diseases physician Jennifer Layden, the associate dean of practice and a professor at Bursky Public Health, explores some common vaccination questions and important considerations in this video.
Watch on YouTube →
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| Public Health Ideas convenings
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| Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 9 a.m. CT
At WashU and online
This convening will examine innovative approaches to community listening to build trust and improve public health.
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Tuesday, October 13 and Wednesday, October 14, 2026
At WashU and online
This event will explore how agriculture, markets and public health can work together to strengthen communities and build a healthier food future.
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The WashU Bursky Public Health Moment is published by the Bursky School of Public Health Office of Communications. You can reach us at [email protected].
Visit publichealth.washu.edu for the latest news and information, and follow us on social media.
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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
[email protected]
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