WashU Public Health Ideas with Elvin Geng

Tamara Schneider

June 2, 2025

As part of Public Health Ideas, a platform for the dean of WashU School of Public Health to share and discuss researchers’ work, Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, talks with

https://youtu.be/WtM5DWSy6Yg?si=EXbBLaMWWTZRguLX

As part of Public Health Ideas, a platform for the dean of WashU School of Public Health to share and discuss researchers’ work, Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, talks with Elvin Geng, MD, MPH, a WashU Public Health secondary faculty member and a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at WashU Medicine.

They discussed a paper Geng co-authored, "HIV epidemiology, prevention, treatment, and implementation strategies for public health," published in The Lancet. To read the paper see here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38043...

Video produced by WashU School of Public Health and Dan Warner.


Tamara Schneider, MPH, PhD, is the assistant director of communications and senior science writer at Bursky Public Health. She holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular biophysics & biochemistry and in sociology from Yale University, a master’s in public health from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in biomedical science from the University of California, San Diego. She joined WashU as a science writer in 2016.

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