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Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, I hope you had a safe, peaceful weekend. Building a school, committees As we now start having critical mass of inaugural faculty and staff, we are ready to start building some of the foundational structures of a school, committees, […]

The 2025 Public Health Conference will be the first time the gathering is led by the School of Public Health.

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, I hope everyone had a fine weekend. I use this space at times to reflect on contemporary circumstance, and how it might affect us. I wanted today to call out colleagues whose work has been directly affected by changes in federal […]

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 Lindsay Stark, DrPH, of the Brown School — and soon, the School of Public Health — at Washington University in St. Louis. The two discussed […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis March 17, 2025 Dear colleagues, I hope everyone has had a good weekend.  We begin this week excited to welcome our first group of secondary faculty — an interdisciplinary mix of scientists, scholars, and educators who will help us shape the […]

Wealthy, educated Americans face far fewer health risks.

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis March 10, 2025 Dear colleagues, I hope everyone has had a fine weekend. Before I begin today, I just wanted to write a brief note on gratitude and grace. Let me begin with gratitude.  We are building a School of Public […]

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 Samuel Kizito, MD, PhD, of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. The two discussed a paper Kizito co-authored, “The long-term impact of […]

This discussion was March 27, 2025, in Cupples Hall I, Room 207, on the Danforth Campus. The problem of bad behavior At some instinctive level we all understand that health emerges from some combination of personal agency and choice, biology and genetic determinism, and the world we live in. And yet, this observation makes us, […]

Aligning academic public health to improve the health of the public