A graduate public health course examines the effects of built environments, from local crosswalks to global cityscapes.
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| Bursky Public Health pioneers new approach to student applied practice experience.
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The challenge facing St. Louis is not simply how to survive extreme heat, but how to build healthier, more resilient neighborhoods in response, writes Raul Gierbolini-Rivera, a PhD student at Bursky Public Health.
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| Drawing on her experiences in Nigeria and the U.S., Mahmoud has dedicated her career to improving women’s cardiovascular health during and after pregnancy.
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There will be no Talking Public Health this week. The series will return on September 30.
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McKelvey Engineering's Feng Jiao was honored by the American Chemical Society. A member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, Jiao supports the school's Food and Agriculture Research Mission (FARM) initiative aimed at driving transformative change in global food systems.
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Kreuter speaks at summit on bridging the gap between identifying and meeting social needs |
Professor Matt Kreuter joined a panel discussion at the Bridges to Resolution Summit in Washington, DC, last week. The panel was titled "Design Versus Delivery – Evidence from the Field," and addressed different models for gathering data and how to drive accountability, coordination and return on investment.
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Media coverage of WashU Bursky Public Health's people, research, and other news.
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Bursky Public Health's Jen Layden, an infectious diseases physician, discusses the end to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. (Source: CNN)
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Municipal tap water is largely safe to drink, said McKelvey Engineering's Kimberly Parker, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty who studies water contamination. (Source: The Guardian)
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Bursky Public Health's Jen Layden, an infectious diseases physician, and Lora Iannotti, a food and nutrition researcher, discuss food safety in light of recent outbreaks and recalls. (Source: St. Louis Magazine)
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During an unusually hot stretch of hot weather in St. Louis, iHeard STL asked local adults to share their opinions on extreme weather. Have they been affected? If so, how?
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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| Dean Sandro Galea wrote his latest book “Why Health?: What We Need to Think About When We Think About Health” to act as a catalyst for conversations and build healthy populations.
In this video, he dives into the conceptual framing for this book and how we can do better for health all the time.
Watch on LinkedIn →
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When Americans talk about rural America, what do they often get wrong? Bursky Public Health Dean Sandro Galea and USC’s Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, an expert on geographic and class divides, go beyond the caricature to explore the many commonalities transcending America’s urban–rural divide.
This is Episode 14 of Ideas Matter, a podcast designed to inform a better conversation about what matters most. Hosted by Dean Galea, it explores topics ranging from immigration, global trade, and public health to AI, creativity, and the future of democracy.
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In this episode, "Closing the know-do gap in global public health," Dr. Salma Abdalla speaks with the World Health Organization's Dr. Kumanan Rasanathan about how public health knowledge systems need to change to better connect evidence with practice.
The episode closes the Building Better Ways of Knowing mini-series of the "Complicating the Narrative,” a podcast hosted by Professor Abdalla and supported by WashU Public Health and the Frick Initiative. The mini-series examined how public health knowledge is produced, judged, communicated, and used.
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Dean Galea's latest post in the Healthiest Goldfish is co-authored with Salma Abdalla and titled "Incentives and the research we don't do." The post examines how what we study is shaped by our motivations, and what this means for what we know.
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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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