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National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters

WashU Public Health’s Matt Kreuter and Rachel Garg report a dramatic spike in 211 food assistance calls as SNAP disruptions during the government shutdown trigger disaster-level demand.

The Conversation

November 10, 2025

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WashU Public Health at APHA 2025

Among the public health leaders, researchers and students at the APHA meeting November 2-5 were several from WashU Public Health sharing research.

November 8, 2025

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A conversation with global health researcher Lindsay Stark

WashU Public Health Professor Lindsay Stark brings insight from global interdisciplinary research to her role as co-director of WashU's undergraduate Public Health & Society Program.

November 7, 2025

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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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