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WashU Public Health Ideas with Mark Huffman
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
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 Mark Huffman, MPH, MD, a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health and a professor of medicine in cardiology at WashU Medicine.
They discussed papers Huffman co-authored, “Community-Based Participatory Research and System Dynamics Modeling for Improving Retention in Hypertension Care,” and “The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease Attributable to Hypertension in Nigeria: A Modelling Study Using Summary-Level Data.”
To read the papers see here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39190… and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38863…
Video produced by WashU School of Public Health and Dan Warner
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