The WashU Public Health Moment |
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Experts on biodiversity, food security, nutrition policy discuss ways to jointly promote sustainable agriculture, improved nutrition.
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| WashU researchers empower people to monitor their own tap water with a project funded through the National Science Foundation.
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| FARM Food Futures Forum will address how to transform food systems to support human and planetary health.
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| Love of research and policy steeped in prevention are a thread through associate dean's public health career.
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| The weekly Talking Public Health seminar series features presentations by leading thinkers in public health at WashU and elsewhere.
Matthew Kreuter, MPH, PhD, the Kahn Family Professor of Public Health and co-director of the Health Communications Collaborative Innovation Research Network at the School of Public Health, gave a talk September 24 titled, “How Healthy is Today’s Health Information Ecosystem?”
This week, Lora Iannotti, MA, PhD, the Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professor and co-director of the Food and Agriculture Mission (FARM) Innovation Research Network at the School of Public Health, will speak at noon October 1 on, "Why the 3 E’s of the E3 Nutrition Lab matter for public health." The talk will be in the Havana Room, on the second floor of 4240 Duncan Avenue, and also will be available via Zoom.
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Seelinger named affiliate of Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women |
Kim Thuy Seelinger, JD, a professor of practice at WashU Public Health, has been named an affiliate of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. An expert on gender-based violence in armed conflict and forced displacement, Seelinger focuses on survivors’ need for protection and accountability and strengthening the support and legal systems they encounter. Read the full announcement here.
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Kruk joins UN General Assembly side event on primary care |
Margaret Kruk, MD, MPH, the Distinguished Professor of Health Systems and Medicine at WashU Medicine and a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health, spoke at a closed side event of the U.N. General Assembly titled, "The Political Economy of Implementing Primary Health Care: Key Policy Shifts." The event was led by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, MSc, PhD, director-general of the World Health Organization.
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WashU Public Health’s Massy Mutumba discusses how participating in sports can help reduce the risk of suicide for youth. (Source: HEC-TV)
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The “most favored nation” policy aims to lower U.S. drug prices by matching the lowest prices paid in other wealthy countries. But recent claims of 1,000% price reductions are mathematically impossible, says WashU Public Health's Tim McBride. (Source: CNN)
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WashU Public Health’s Morgan Shields contributes to a growing body of evidence showing that for-profit psychiatric hospitals are illegally turning away patients in crisis. (Source: ProPublica)
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Sexual violence is becoming more common as a tool of war, but it remains underreported, and perpetrators often escape prosecution, says WashU Public Health’s Kim Thuy Seelinger. (Source: ABC News Australia)
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According to the latest iHeard poll in St. Louis, 42% of local adults say they or a loved one has had a health insurance claim denied, and most of them (69%) appealed the claim. AI is aiming to help fight health insurance claim denials, but only 6% of St. Louisans have heard about it.
iHeard is a listening project of WashU Public Health's Health Communication Research Laboratory. iHeard surveys about 200 people who live or work in St. Louis weekly to find out what they know, believe and care about in regard to health.
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Philip L. Marotta, MPH, PhD, an assistant professor at the Brown School and a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health; Ginger McKay, MA, PhD, an assistant professor at WashU Public Health; Hilary Reno, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at WashU Medicine and a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health; Lindsey Filiatreau, MPH, PhD, an assistant professor at WashU Public Health; and Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD, a professor of psychiatry at WashU Medicine and a member of the secondary faculty at WashU Public Health, co-authored, "Rural providers’ attitudes toward integrating harm-reduction strategies and PrEP prescribing into rural primary care settings in the U.S. Southeast and Midwest," published in Addiction Science and Clinical Practice.
Kia Davis, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of surgery at WashU Medicine and a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health, is the co-first author on, "Experiences of racism associated with self-reported hypertension among African American/Black individuals," published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Nicholas Szoko, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at WashU Medicine and a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health, is the corresponding author on, "Emergency department utilization among youth in foster care: benefits of a patient-centered medical home," published in Frontiers in Pediatrics.
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The School of Public Health is looking to add faculty from around the country and world. Our new call for faculty, along with details, are available via Interfolio and on the WashU Public Health website. Please share with faculty who might be interested.
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Dan Giammar, PhD, is the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering at WashU McKelvey Engineering, director of the Center for the Environment, and a secondary faculty member and co-director of the Planetary Health Innovation Research Network at the School of Public Health. In this video short, he talks to Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, about what in his field gives him hope. Their conversation was part of Public Health Ideas, a platform for the dean to share and discuss work in public health.
Watch the full conversation on YouTube →
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A new Healthiest Goldfish — titled "The Social Life of Ideas" — is a joint post between Dean Sandro Galea and Nason Maani, PhD, MSc, of the University of Edinburgh's Global Health Policy Unit.
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Public Health Ideas convenings
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The Story of COVID in the Heart of America |
Tuesday, October 7, 4-5:30 p.m. CT
At WashU and online
This event brings together the team that documented, with this book, COVID-19's impact on St. Louisans. The event features the book's creators, as well as community leaders, in a conversation about lessons learned from the pandemic.
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Thursday, October 9, 9 a.m. CT
At WashU and online
This gathering will highlight how public health must integrate agricultural science, technology, and market solutions to advance sustainable, equitable, and health-promoting food futures.
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The WashU Public Health Moment is published by the School of Public Health Office of Communications. You can reach us at sphcomms@wustl.edu.
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