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Please join us for a talk by epidemiologist and scientific communicator Katelyn Jetelina, MPH, PhD, who will discuss her pioneering approach to public health communication, and her experience translating complex data for audiences online through her Substack platform, “Your Local Epidemiologist.” The talk will be followed by a conversation between Dr. Jetelina and Dean Sandro […]

Love of research and policy steeped in prevention are a thread through associate dean’s public health career

Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, talks with Morgan Shields, MS, PhD, an assistant professor at WashU School of Public Health, about mental health, substance use, and the personal autonomy of those with mental illness.

Shields studies the quality and accountability of behavioral health care. Her research focus is on identifying and implementing strategies to improve the use of evidence-based practices, ensuring patient-centered care and promoting equity.

This panel discussion at WashU and online explored the alarming decline in biodiversity at genetic, species, and ecosystem levels and its critical implications for food security and public health nutrition. With only nine plant species accounting for 65% of global food production, we face an unprecedented crisis that threatens resilient agrifood systems worldwide. Leading experts […]

July 21, 2025 From the Dean   Space, for faculty and staffWe are well underway with the plans to move our faculty and staff to our temporary spaces, as previously communicated. To summarize, our faculty and staff will be, for the time being, in between 4300 Duncan in the Cortex Innovation District, and in Hillman Hall. About […]

July 14, 2025 RSVP for orientation and All-School Retreat  In last week’s newsletter, we shared details about the School of Public Health’s upcoming All-School Retreat, as well as details about our faculty and staff orientation. Thank you to our many colleagues who RSVP’d. For those who have not yet registered, please RSVP here for both the retreat and […]

July 7, 2025 FROM THE DEAN Welcome to Inside WashU Public Health This is the first edition of Inside WashU Public Health. As summarized in last week’s Public Health in Progress, this weekly newsletter now replaces PHiP for all internal members of the SPH community — our faculty, staff, students, and members of key councils. Much […]

Analysis finds that students in sports are much less likely to report suicidal thoughts, behaviors.

WashU hosts talk, panel discussion at World Health Assembly side event.

As part of Public Health Ideas, a platform for the dean of WashU School of Public Health to share and discuss researchers’ work, Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, talks with Lindsey Filiatreau, MPH, PhD, an assistant professor at the School of Public Health. They discussed a paper Filiatreau co-authored, “Intersectional HIV- and Depression-Related Stigma Among […]