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Community-based intervention in Afghanistan led by WashU Public Health Professor Jean-Francois Trani improved academic outcomes and life skills, especially for girls.
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Designer and social activist Kenneth Cole will join WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea for a conversation November 6 on mental health, social activism and related issues in an event on the Danforth Campus.
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WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea talks with Patrick Aguilar about using better business practices to improve health outcomes. Aguilar is managing director of health and a professor of practice of organizational behavior at WashU Olin Business School, and a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health.
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Summers spent as a counselor at a camp for sick children led to Sara Malone's commitment to ensuring that all children receive the best medical care. Malone is an assistant professor at WashU Public Health.
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The weekly Talking Public Health seminar series features presentations by leading thinkers in public health at WashU and elsewhere. Ross Hammond, the Distinguished Professor in Public Health System Science at WashU Public Health, gave a talk titled, "Toward Precision Prevention in Population Health: Leveraging Agent-based Models."
At noon Wednesday, October 29, Susy Stark, professor at WashU Public Health, will give a talk titled, “No Place Like Home.” The talk will be in the Havana Room, on the second floor of 4240 Duncan Avenue. The talk also will be available over Zoom.
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Kang receives merit award for cancer disparities research |
Lixin (Cindy) Kang, MPH, a PhD student in Public Health Sciences at WashU Public Health, received the 2025 Conquer Cancer Merit Award at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium this month for her research on patterns and disparities in access to cancer care.
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There has been a lot of talk about taking pain medicine such as Tylenol or ibuprofen during pregnancy. The latest iHeard survey suggests there is still some confusion among St. Louisans.
iHeard is a listening project of WashU Public Health's Health Communication Research Laboratory. iHeard surveys about 200 people weekly who live or work in St. Louis to find out what they know, believe and care about in regard to health.
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WashU Public Health's Elisabeth Stelson, an assistant professor, co-authored, "Healthcare gaps and inequities following hospitalisation for COVID-19 in Brazil’s universal healthcare system: a patient-engaged survey of Long COVID healthcare needs, use and barriers," published in the International Journal for Equity in Health.
Margaret Kruk, the Distinguished Professor of Health Systems and Medicine at WashU Medicine and a member of the secondary faculty at WashU Public Health, co-authored, "COVID-19 pandemic and access to mental healthcare: A qualitative study of the experiences of mental healthcare providers and caregivers in Ghana," published in PLOS Mental Health.
Jacquelyn Benson, an associate professor at WashU Medicine and a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health, co-authored, "Rural Missourians’ perspectives on pain: 'I like to be in control of my life'," published in Health & Place.
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“Most people I tell I was giving a talk at St. Louis, Missouri, a week ago — the first reaction is a frown, then a 'Who is there?' And that is the beauty of the food-system movement we have all helped build — incredible ideas are cropping up everywhere, and WashU School of Public Health has started the first-ever FARM in a school of public health. This is something we have tried to do with Governments and across different NGOs with little success.”
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Agnes Kalibata, PhD, founder and chair, Connect for Impact Advisory Group (C4Impact), and keynote speaker at WashU Public Health’s , in a .
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| Dean Sandro Galea, editor-in-chief of JAMA Health Forum and host of the journal’s podcast, “JAMA Health Forum Conversations,” speaks with Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, a professor at Duke University School of Nursing with interdisciplinary training in nursing, public health, and psychology.
Titled, "," the episode delves into women’s health, inequities, how women’s different identities shape their health, and how a “fully realized population health agenda needs to center women’s health as an area of conceptual and pragmatic focus.”
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Public Health Ideas convenings
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| October 29-31
At WashU and online
This is a global forum to share new research on the measurement and improvement of health system performance.
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| Thursday, November 6, 4 p.m. CT
At WashU and online
This conversation will explore how collaborations between business, public health, and advocacy can drive measurable impact regarding mental health.
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| | Wednesday, November 12, 4 p.m. CT
At WashU and online
The noted epidemiologist will discuss her approach to public health communication and her experience translating complex data for audiences online.
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