Implementation science aims to improve healthcare by validating effective interventions
The Brown School’s Byron Powell comments on the achievements and promise of the field of implementation science.
Child reintegration programs must consider age and gender, UN report says
Nuanced approach needed when helping children linked to armed groups rebuild lives
Galea receives prestigious health education award
Public Health dean recognized for promoting understanding of underlying factors that shape health
To keep Medicaid, a mom caring for her disabled adult son may soon need to prove she works
Tim McBride comments on the impact of the proposed Medicaid work requirement on Missourians
Public Health in Progress, June 30, 2025
Dear colleagues, Transitioning our weekly communications Public Health in Progress (PHiP) has now been in circulation for six months, delivered every Monday morning to a list of subscribers who signed up to receive news of our work to build a School of Public Health at WashU. Thank you to all who have joined us on […]
NIH funding cuts to implementation science slowing progress on HIV
Implementation research has been critical driver toward ending HIV epidemic
Public Health in Progress, June 9, 2025
Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, We start the week with sadness, and with gratitude. With sadness As communicated by Dean Dorian Traube, Jeremy Goldbach, the Masters & Johnson Distinguished Professor in Sexual Health and Education at the Brown School, passed away early Saturday morning. Jeremy was […]
WashU Expert: US cuts threaten global efforts to prevent violence against women, children
Nearly 1 in 3 women globally has been a victim of physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner, nonpartner, or both at least once.
Trump’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ continues assault on Obamacare
Republican efforts to make it harder for what they term “able-bodied” adults to get Medicaid is code for scaling back Obamacare, said Timothy McBride.
Unseen devastation of the St. Louis tornado: mental health. ‘I will never be the same.’
The people most susceptible to mental health problems after disasters are those already struggling, said Salma Abdalla.