The WashU Public Health Moment |
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Gender-based violence is a major threat to migrants, refugees and displaced people. Many survivors never tell anyone about their experiences, which can prevent them from accessing needed services. WashU Public Health Professor Kim Thuy Seelinger has developed a toolkit to help aid workers create a safe environment that enables people to feel comfortable disclosing.
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Turning waste carbon into useful products is a vital part of sustainable manufacturing. A team of researchers led by Feng Jiao has developed a scalable and durable pathway to convert carbon monoxide into energy-rich multicarbon compounds.
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Moving to the mainland opened Gierbolini-Rivera's eyes to the social, economic and public health challenges facing Puerto Rico, and led him to public health research as a way to propel meaningful change.
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Public Health Ideas with Rebecca Messbarger |
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As part of Public Health Ideas, a platform for WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea to share and discuss work in public health, the dean talks with Rebecca Messbarger, a WashU professor of Italian and a secondary faculty member at the School of Public Health. The two discuss what history teaches us about health, and how the humanities can enrich the way we understand and pursue the well-being of populations.
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As part of the Talking Public Health seminar series, William Effah, a lecturer at the School of Public Health, gave a talk Wednesday, December 3, titled, “Building for Impact: Directions for Public Health Education and Practice.”
Tim McBride, the Bernard Becker Professor at the School of Public Health, will give a talk at noon Wednesday, December 10, titled, “Translating Research to Policy: The Example of Medicaid.” The talk will be at 4240 Duncan (Havana Room) and available over Zoom.
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WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea warns that the administration’s turn toward alternative medicine risks sidelining science in federal health policy. (Source: NPR)
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WashU Public Health’s Jean-Francois Trani and the Brown School’s Mitra Naseh, a member of the SPH secondary faculty, write that Afghan migrants seeking safety confront a litany of restrictions around the world. (Source: The New Humanitarian)
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There is a body of research that can inform and reduce the burden of firearm injury, says WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea. (Source: St. Louis American)
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The Brown School's Cal Halvorsen, a member of the SPH secondary faculty, speaks on the benefits of creating a cohesive, multigenerational workforce. (Source: Workplace Matters)
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WashU Public Health Professor Mary Politi and research coordinators Eliana Goldstein and Krista Cooksey co-authored, "Assessing the usability of a novel toolkit for creating visual key information pages for informed consent for research: mixed methods usability study," published in JMIR Formative Research.
Rodrigo Reis, a professor at WashU Public Health, authored, "Walk the vote: Why democracy is important for promoting physical activity worldwide," published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health.
WashU Public Health PhD student Raul Gierbolini-Rivera was the first and corresponding author on, "Exploring implementation strategies in evidence-based open streets programs for promoting physical activity in the Americas: a scoping review," published in Frontiers in Public Health. WashU Public Health co-authors include Ross Brownson, the Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor; Milena Franco Silva, a PhD student; and Byron Powell, an associate professor at the Brown School and an SPH secondary faculty member.
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There is abundant evidence that sexual minority groups have worse health indicators than sexual majority groups. In the latest episode of the JAMA Health Forum "Conversations" podcast, "Changes in policy and health of LGBTQ+ populations," Gilbert Gonzales, PhD, MHA, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center joins Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, the JAMA Health Forum editor-in-chief and dean of WashU Public Health, to discuss the current policy landscape and its potential impact on the health of LGBTQ+ populations.
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Public Health Ideas convenings
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| Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 9 a.m. CT
At WashU and online
The event will bring together academics, clinicians, policymakers, and community leaders to explore the role climate change plays in reshaping patterns of infectious disease, and why multisectoral collaborations are essential to build future readiness.
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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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