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SPH events this week Faculty and staff orientation School of Public Health faculty and staff orientations will be this Wednesday, August 13, in the multipurpose room at Lopata House, on […]

PhD student studies how urban design can improve public health

Health care-quality researchers Mary Politi and Ginger McKay say that the funding cuts undermine efforts to improve medical care and health outcomes.

Tim McBride warns that the new rural health-care legislation may worsen disparities rather than solve them. The legislation favors smaller states, potentially deepening partisan divides in health-care funding, McBride says.

New to the school We welcome four new secondary faculty and one new staff member this week. Social epidemiologist Kia Davis, MPH, ScD, an assistant professor of surgery in the […]

Tim McBride says new Medicaid work requirements may cause Missouri residents to lose coverage not because they don’t meet the work requirements but because of chronic understaffing and administrative backlogs at the state agency.

Morgan Shields warns that proposed federal budget cuts could weaken protections for people in psychiatric facilities by limiting oversight of mental health care and reducing the ability to hold institutions accountable.

New federal Medicaid work requirements could overwhelm Missouri’s already strained social services system, where documentation issues have historically led to delays and disruptions in benefits, says Tim McBride.

Matthew Kreuter discusses the results of a new poll from iHeard St. Louis, a listening project designed to enhance communication between local residents and health professionals. iHeard is a project of the Health Communication Research Laboratory, which Kreuter directs.

Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, talks with Dan Giammar, PhD, about climate change and the impact of environmental regulations on the health of populations. Giammar is the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering, and the 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.