In The News

Historian of public health Kristin Brig-Ortiz, PhD, a member of the SPH secondary faculty, tells how the inequitable colonial-era water system in Durban, South Africa, continues to influence access to clean water in the city.

WashU’s undergraduate Program in Public Health & Society, a collaboration between WashU Public Health and Arts & Sciences, offers an opportunity for students to actively shape the evolving curriculum in which they participate.

WashU Public Health’s Tim McBride says Missouri’s Medicaid expansion faces a looming funding shortfall, with rural hospitals and patients likely to bear the brunt of delayed action.

WashU Medicine’s Margaret Kruk, a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health, led a national survey of Americans’ perceptions of the U.S. health-care system.

WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea joins other experts calling for a prevention-focused action plan to address the root causes of gun violence.

WashU Public Health’s Tim McBride urges consumers to check provider networks when insurance shopping.

WashU Public Health’s Tim McBride says rising premiums expose deep flaws in insurance markets, leaving working adults and some older Americans vulnerable amid political gridlock.

The Brown School’s Kimberly Johnson, MPH, PhD, a member of the SPH secondary faculty, co-authored an article on evaluating health claims from her perspective as a cancer epidemiologist and public health educator.

211 Counts, a project of WashU Public Health’s Health Communication Research Lab, has been tracking the growing signs of food insecurity as reflected in calls to the nationwide 211 helpline. 

The U.S. has struggled for decades to train enough physicians to meet its needs – and, in particular, to provide care in rural and underserved communities, writes Olin Business’ Patrick Aguilar, MD, a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health.