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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 […]

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.

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.

The people most susceptible to mental health problems after disasters are those already struggling, said Salma Abdalla.

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 Elvin Geng, MD, MPH, a WashU Public Health secondary faculty member and a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at WashU Medicine. […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues,  Space moves As we move to settle our space footprint in 4300 Duncan and Hillman Hall, all of our primary faculty and senior staff have now received an email from our associate dean of administration — Sunghei Han — […]

Salma Abdalla talks about the importance of social connections and self-compassion in recovery from traumatic events.

Dean Sandro Galea’s 2023 book, “Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time” was cited in a discussion of how the public health establishment handled — and mishandled — criticism of COVID-era policies.

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Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues,  Friday’s tornadoes As everyone knows, a tornado directly hit our campus last week, damaging the campus and property for many in our WashU and neighboring communities. As far as we know, all members of our WashU community are physically […]