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Why Congo's Ebola outbreak could be devastating for women and girls

Lindsay Stark, a professor at the Bursky School, joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to discuss why this outbreak could lead to increased violence against the country’s women and girls.

WBUR

May 29, 2026

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Post-tornado soil tests find that lead is a problem—but not a new one

In the aftermath of the May 16, 2025, St. Louis tornado Arts and Sciences' Jeff Catalano, a Bursky School secondary faculty member, joined a team testing for lead contamination in the tornado's impact area.

St. Louis Magazine

May 29, 2026

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The Ebola outbreak will lead to devastating violence against women and girls

In a STAT First Opinion piece, the Bursky School's Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff detail research findings on the relationship between outbreaks and violence against women and girls, and argue that strategies to protect them must be built into the Ebola response.

STAT News

May 29, 2026

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The Moment, May 24, 2026

New FARM grants program; rethinking global health; Mark Doyle

May 27, 2026

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How should we rethink global health?

Discussion hosted in Geneva by Bursky Public Health seeks new approaches to global health in a changing world

May 23, 2026

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A conversation with FARM network manager Mark Doyle

Doyle works to catalyze research at the nexus of public health, food and agriculture and advance solutions for healthier communities and a healthier planet

May 23, 2026

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Racks of cultivated lettuce at indoor vertical farm.

FARM launches $1 million Growing Health grants program

Bursky School of Public Health program to support innovative, commercially viable solutions to improve nutrition, food security

May 23, 2026

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Global outbreaks are another climate-linked driver of violence against women and girls — but "we know how to keep [them] safe"

A study by Bursky Public Health's Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff revealed that disease outbreaks are linked to increased risk of gender-based violence.

Climate, Gendered

May 22, 2026

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This federal program trains older workers. The Trump administration wants to cut it

"This program is a lifeline for people who might have no other opportunities to get retrained for work," said the Brown School's Cal Halvorsen, a member of the Bursky Public Health secondary faculty and an expert in healthy aging.

CNBC

May 22, 2026

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