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New findings from WashU Public Health researchers reveal how pandemic-era policies and widespread Medicaid removals fueled a sharp rise in Affordable Care Act enrollment.
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A collection of articles describing the Translational Science Benefits Model — a tool for demonstrating the impact of public health and clinical research — has been published in Frontiers in Public Health, curated by WashU Public Health’s Doug Luke. The tool, developed at WashU, has been used worldwide.
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Raised in a country deeply fearful of HIV and AIDS, WashU Public Health's Massy Mutumba became committed to helping her country, Uganda, fight the epidemic and improve the lives of children with HIV.
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Project Peanut Butter — founded by Mark Manary, the James P. Keating Professor of Pediatrics at WashU Medicine and a member of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty — has received an award through the global Action for Women's Health program to expand the nonprofit's mental health programs. In a recent study, Project Peanut Butter, an international program to promote the health of women and children facing malnutrition, demonstrated that a locally adapted cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program could support the mental health of pregnant women in Sierra Leone. The award provides support for the organization's maternal mental health programs in Sierra Leone and for pilot treatment in other sub-Saharan countries.
“The data are astounding," Manary said. "CBT improved these women's mental health remarkably. We are overjoyed to press on and extend our counseling services thanks to Action for Women’s Health.”
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Four members of the WashU Public Health community received research excellence awards November 10 in honor of their scholarly creativity and the impact of their work on regional, national and global challenges. Salma Abdalla, an assistant professor; Jonathan Hanahan, an associate professor at the Sam Fox School and a member of the SPH secondary faculty; Nhial Tutlam, an assistant professor at the Brown School and a member of the SPH secondary faculty; and Catalina Melendez Contreras, a senior research manager in Abdalla’s lab, were recognized by WashU Provost Mark D. West.
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Historian of public health Kristin Brig-Ortiz, 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. (Source: The Conversation)
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WashU Public Health’s Food and Agriculture Research Mission is taking a new approach to tackling global challenges associated with agricultural production, food distribution and access to quality nutrition. (Source: Site Selection)
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Strategic planning survey reminder |
Thank you to those who have already completed the strategic planning survey. We welcome feedback from all members of our extended community on our plan via a brief survey that should take about 5-10 minutes to complete. Thank you in advance for helping us better move forward toward our mission. And, as a bit of extra incentive, those who participate can choose to enter a raffle to win WashU SPH swag.
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Among St. Louis adults surveyed, 86% reported hearing about SNAP uncertainties in the past seven days, and 81% said they have heard something about local food pantries in the last seven days. Area residents were polled November 1-3, when the federal government shutdown was ongoing and it was unclear if partial, full, or any SNAP benefits would be distributed in November.
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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Juliet Iwelunmor, a professor at WashU Medicine and a member of the SPH secondary faculty, was the co-corresponding author on, "Music as a strategy to improve hypertension and stroke management: evidence from a crowdsourcing open call and designathon in Nigeria," published in BMC Public Health.
Kevin Xu, an assistant professor of psychiatry at WashU Medicine and a member of the SPH secondary faculty, was the senior and corresponding author on, "Trends in hallucinogen-related emergency department and hospital admissions, 2016 to 2023," published in JAMA Network Open.
Nhial Tutlam, an assistant professor at the Brown School and a member of the SPH secondary faculty, was the corresponding author on, "Social determinants of mental health outcomes among refugee adolescents and youth living with HIV in refugee settlements in Uganda: a cross-sectional analysis," published in AIDS and Behavior.
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Epidemiologist and science communicator Katelyn Jetelina — known for her influential Substack and Instagram presence — visited WashU to talk about how best to communicate science to resistant audiences — and the need to hear where those with differing viewpoints are coming from. She then took questions from WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea and the audience.
Jetelina reaches more than 400,000 Substack subscribers and 100,000 Instagram followers, helping to make complex public health science accessible.
View more photos from the event on Instagram →
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Dean Galea's latest Healthiest Goldfish blog, "A call for structured heterodoxy in medicine and public health," discusses having the discipline to create space for productive disagreements.
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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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