Public Health in Progress, May 5, 2025
Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, Welcome to May. I had the opportunity this past week to engage with and present our progress to the university’s trustees. A heartfelt note of gratitude to the trustees, who launched and have been and continue to be supportive […]
Trump’s Budget Cuts Funding for Chronic Disease Prevention
Ross Brownson comments on efforts to improve rural health by building walking trails to promote physical activity.
New FARM grants program supports research for healthier food, planet
Cultivate Grants Fund aims to amplify, accelerate research with the potential to transform food systems
Public Health in Progress, April 28, 2025
Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, Looking ahead to 2025-2026 meetings We have started to schedule out meetings for the 2025-2026 academic year. All meeting dates can be found here. We do not have rooms allocated yet, given some uncertainties on space availability, but those details […]
Public Health in Progress, April 21, 2025
Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, The past week, meetings I spent most of my week in meetings with members of our community. I enjoyed them all; it is a real privilege and joy to meet our students, faculty, staff, to learn more about WashU […]
Building connections between public health, business is focus of panel led by WashU and WHO
2-day international dialogue featured WashU public health, business deans
Public Health in Progress, April 14, 2025
Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, The past week We welcomed two outside guests to speak in our Talking Public Health series this week. Andrew Subica, PhD, from the University of California, Riverside, spoke about community-engaged research to address health disparities. Marcus Howard, PhD, founder […]