WashU Public Health Ideas with Salma Abdalla

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

Elizabethe Durando

May 18, 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 Salma Abdalla, DrPH, MBBS, MPH, an assistant professor at the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.

They discussed a paper Galea and Abdalla co-authored, “Income, education, and the clustering of risk in cardiovascular disease in the US, 1999–2018: an observational study.”

To read the paper, see here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X25000493

Video produced by WashU School of Public Health and Dan Warner

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