September 27, 2026

Bursky Public Health's Lora Iannotti and colleagues tested whether a diverse diet inspired by ancestral eating patterns could support maternal nutrition and fetal development.

Experts from public health and other fields came together at Bursky Public Health's Leading with Listening convening on September 23 to discuss why — and how — to build a public health listening infrastructure that better reflects and responds to the needs and interests of communities.

From listening to farmers in Benin to training community researchers in Papua New Guinea to connecting planetary health scholars at WashU, Mandeville works to create a healthy planet for populations.

This week, Cal Halvorsen, PhD, MSW, an associate professor at WashU's Brown School and a Bursky Public Health secondary faculty member, will give a talk titled, “More Age Diverse Than Ever: Work, Purpose, and Intergenerational Connection.” His talk will be at noon on Wednesday, September 30 in the Danforth University Center (DUC), room 234. Register to attend in person or get the Zoom link.

A book co-edited by the Brown School's Paz Galupo, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty, was selected as the 2026 recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division 44. Titled “Addressing Minority Stress and Enhancing Resilience with Diverse LGBTQ+ Clients,” the book was recognized for making a significant contribution to the field of LGBT psychology.

A new dashboard tracks changes in children's enrollment in MO HealthNet, Missouri's Medicaid program, revealing continued declines in coverage with significant differences across counties.

Bursky Public Health's Jen Layden, an infectious diseases physician, discusses what goes into investigating a measles case or outbreak, particularly in areas that haven’t experienced the disease in years. (Source: KSDK)

A study led by Bursky Public Health's Carrie Breton found that mothers' sleep habits were linked to babies' risk of obesity. (Source: Earth.com)

“The hospitals don't face any sort of natural consequences for providing care that is low quality or even abusive,” said Morgan Shields, an expert on psychiatric care quality at Bursky Public Health. (Source: WFYI)

Bursky Public Health PhD student Raul Gierbolini-Rivera writes that climate action has stalled due to a lack of political will. (Source: El Nuevo Día)

The high-profile trial of Lindsay Clancy – a former nurse accused of strangling her three young children – thrust postpartum mental health issues into the public spotlight. iHeard STL asked, how familiar are St. Louis adults with the various forms that postpartum mental health issues can take?  

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.

Dean Galea's latest post in The Healthiest Goldfish is co-authored with Nason Maani and titled, "Ideas about ideas: The limits of technocratic thinking.” The post examines technocratic thinking in public health, its challenges, and its place in how the field approaches evidence and decision-making.