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Toward a safer world by 2040

National experts — including WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea — call for rethinking firearm violence as a preventable public-health crisis and investing in community, technology and research to create lasting safety.

The Source

November 7, 2025

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Access to water has a long racial history in Durban

Historian of public health Kristin Brig-Ortiz, PhD, a member of the SPH secondary faculty, tells how the inequitable colonial-era water system in Durban, South Africa, continues to influence access to clean water in the city.

The Conversation

November 7, 2025

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Students encouraged to shape their own learning in new Public Health & Society program

WashU's undergraduate Program in Public Health & Society, a collaboration between WashU Public Health and Arts & Sciences, offers an opportunity for students to actively shape the evolving curriculum in which they participate.

Student Life

November 5, 2025

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Missouri Medicaid expansion is nearing a funding cliff few Missourians realize

WashU Public Health’s Tim McBride says Missouri’s Medicaid expansion faces a looming funding shortfall, with rural hospitals and patients likely to bear the brunt of delayed action.

Missouri Independent

November 5, 2025

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Missouri residents trust their doctors, but doubt the health system

WashU Medicine's Margaret Kruk, a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health, led a national survey of Americans' perceptions of the U.S. health-care system.

Missourinet

November 4, 2025

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A gun violence 'action plan' calls for a new emphasis on prevention

WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea joins other experts calling for a prevention-focused action plan to address the root causes of gun violence.

National Public Radio

November 4, 2025

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BJC teams with UnitedHealthcare for Affordable Care Act insurance in St. Louis region

WashU Public Health's Tim McBride urges consumers to check provider networks when insurance shopping.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

November 4, 2025

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Missouri health premiums to rise as much as 30% for 2026 amid uncertainty over subsidies

WashU Public Health’s Tim McBride says rising premiums expose deep flaws in insurance markets, leaving working adults and some older Americans vulnerable amid political gridlock.

Missouri Independent

November 3, 2025

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