December 5, 2025

WashU Public Health Ideas with Rebecca Messbarger

Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, talks with Rebecca Messbarger, PhD, a professor of Italian and a secondary faculty member at the School of Public Health.

Hayley Damboise

As part of Public Health Ideas, a platform for the dean of WashU School of Public Health to share and discuss work in public health, Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, talks with Rebecca Messbarger, PhD, a professor of Italian and a secondary faculty member at the School of Public Health.

To learn more about Messbarger, see here: https://artsci.washu.edu/faculty-staf…

Video produced by Zachary Linhares/WashU School of Public Health

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