What gives you hope?

In our Public Health Ideas series, Dean Sandro Galea engages experts in public health, from near and far, in conversations ranging from one-on-one recorded talks, to fireside chats, to panel discussions. The recordings of each are then shared via the school’s YouTube channel, newsletter, and website.

The goal of the Public Health Ideas series is to engage the public health community broadly — scientists, scholars, students, practitioners, community members, experts from disciplines that are outside of but work with public health, members of the media, policymakers — in conversation about pressing issues in public health, to better understand the challenges the field faces, toward illuminating better solutions.

Dean Galea often closes these conversations with a simple question: “What gives you hope?” Because ultimately, public health is an aspiration for a better, healthier world for all. And that should be a reason for hope for all of us. 

This video captures some of these one-on-one conversations and the thoughts of a few other WashU Public Health people — faculty, staff, students — on what gives them hope at this moment in time. We thought it would be particularly appropriate to share during this National Public Health Week. 

Video and graphic illustration produced by Zachary Linhares/WashU Public Health