The WashU Public Health Moment |
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The inaugural convening of WashU Public Health's Solutions through Planetary Health Research (SPHERE) Innovation Research Network will address the intertwined issues of emerging infectious diseases and climate change. The event will be January 21 at WashU and online.
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A professor of practice and an entrepreneur, Joe Steensma wants his students to know that the analytical tools used in public health are also useful in shaping businesses that can help solve public health challenges.
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Public Health Ideas with Amy McQueen |
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Dean Sandro Galea talks with Amy McQueen, a professor at WashU Public Health, about health behavior and shaping better approaches to health communication.
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Salma Abdalla, an assistant professor at WashU Public Health, has been appointed to the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at the World Health Organization. In this role, she will provide scientific guidance, evaluate research proposals and help identify collaborators for the alliance.
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Five School of Public Health faculty members have been awarded funding through Washington University’s Global Incubator Seed Grant program. The program provides one-year grants of up to $25,000 to catalyze faculty-led international research and build relationships across disciplines and countries.
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Rising hallucinogen use has had unclear effects on the health of users, says WashU Medicine’s Kevin Xu, a member of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty. (Source: U.S. News & World Report)
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“People might do better, physically, psychologically, socially, if they have a role that they think is important and they identify with,” said the Brown School’s Cal J. Halvorsen, a member of the SPH secondary faculty. (Source: Mother Jones.)
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Radon is a gas found in rocks and soil and can enter a home through gaps in the foundation Exposure to radon can have serious health consequences. In this week’s survey, we wanted to find out what St. Louisans knew about radon.
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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WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea co-authored, "Study Designs and Methods for Health Policy and Health Services Research: A Look Back, A Look Ahead," in JAMA Health Forum.
WashU Public Health Assistant Professor Sara Malone is the corresponding author of, "Strategies to improve healthcare team communication structure and quality in resource‑variable childhood cancer hospitals (TeamTalk): a study protocol," published in Implementation Science Communications. WashU Public Health co-authors include Doug Luke, the Distinguished Professor in Public Health Systems Science; and data analysts Bobbi Carothers and Veronica Chaitan.
Byron Powell, an associate professor at the Brown School and a member of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty, co-authored, "Scaling an intervention for the engagement of people with HIV who inject drugs into care in Viet Nam: an implementation-effectiveness, cluster-randomised trial," published in The Lancet Global Health.
Nathaniel Dell, an assistant professor of psychiatry at WashU Medicine and a member of the WashU Public Health secondary faculty, was the corresponding author on, "Patterns of polysubstance use disorder among human trafficking survivors: A latent class analysis," published in Addictive Behaviors.
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What does it mean to tell someone living in a Dhaka, Bangladesh, slum to shelter in place during a pandemic? In this episode, "When 'Shelter in Place' Means Nothing," host Dr. Salma Abdalla speaks with Dr. Sabina Faiz Rashid, a professor at the BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health in Dhaka, about leading public health research and education from the Global South.
The conversation delves into how stories from the margins can help us see the world, and health, more clearly. They discuss the value of combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, the importance of local insight in global health, and how broader perspectives can strengthen the field’s responsiveness and relevance. The podcast "Complicating the Narrative” is supported by WashU Public Health and the Frick Initiative.
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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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