Lindsey Filiatreau, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at WashU Medicine, spoke March 19 on, “'What I know is that people don’t die from HIV, they die from stress:' Closing the mental health treatment gap for people living with HIV in the Global South." See here for a recording 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, […]
Opeyemi Babajide, PhD MSc, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, spoke March 27 on "The Intersection of Perinatal Health, Migration and Social Determinants of Health." See here for a recording of the talk.
Gregory Phillips II, PhD, associate professor in the Departments of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern, spoke April 2 on “Engaging, Educating, and Empowering: A New Paradigm for Health Research and Evaluation with and for LGBTQ+ Communities.” See here for a recording of the talk.
Stephen E. Lankenau, PhD, professor and director of the Medical Cannabis Research Center at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, spoke April 3 on "New Directions in Cannabis and Overdose Prevention Research." See here for a recording of the talk.
Andrew Subica, PhD, an associate professor of social medicine, population & public health at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, and founding co-director for the U.S. Veterans Affairs Center for Pacific Islander Veterans Health, spoke April 8 on "Community Engaged Research to Address Health Disparities." See here for a recording of the talk.
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Marcus Howard, PhD, founder and CEO of GreaterHealth Pharmacy & Wellness in St. Louis' Delmar DivINe, spoke April 9 on “Public Health in Action: The Story of GreaterHealth Pharmacy & Wellness.” See here for a recording of the talk.
Julia Fleckman, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, and also serves as the director of research and evaluation for the Tulane University Violence Prevention Institute. She spoke April 14 on “Getting at the […]
Notes from April 16, 2025, Assembly
Susan M. Kiene, PhD, MPH, is a professor of global health in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the director of Building Research Initiatives Advancing Global Health Equity (BRIDGE) at San Diego State University School of Public Health. She spoke April 17 on “Developing and Scaling Evidence-Based Interventions: Partnerships for Evolving Community Priorities.” See […]
Truth? We are in the business of science and scholarship. Our job is to uncover fundamental truths about nature, to document these truths, and to advance them so that we can better understand the world, and, in so doing, make the world better. Core to our ability to do so is confidence that we can […]
Deshira Wallace, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Health Behavior and a faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center, spoke April 22 on “Examining the intersections of mental health and physical health in U.S. and global research.” See here for a recording of the talk.
Kim Thuy Seelinger, JD, a research associate professor at the Brown School, spoke April 24 on “Substance, Systems, Survivors: The essential synergy of public health and international justice.” See here for a recording of the talk.
Kirsten Beyer, PhD, MPH, MS, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Social Sciences in the Institute for Health & Humanity at the Medical College of Wisconsin, spoke April 29 on “Structural Racism in Housing and Health Outcomes in the United States.” See here for a recording of the talk.