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.
Anusha M. Vable, ScD, MPH, an associate professor and associate director of the Center for Health Equity in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, spoke May 1 on “The Education System as a Potential Solution to Health Inequities.” See here for a recording of the talk.
Catherine K. Ettman, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke May 7 on “Population mental health, assets, and policy: leveraging longitudinal survey and electronic health data to understand drivers of population health.” See here for a recording of the […]
Joe Steensma, MPH, MA, EdD, public health professor of practice at the School of Public Health (SPH), spoke August 27, 2025, on “From Toyota to Tilapia: Sustainable Aquaculture Through the Deployment of Lean Production Systems in Rural Nigeria.” See here for a recording of the talk.
Notes from Oct. 7, 2025, Assembly
Mary Politi, PhD, a professor at WashU Public Health, spoke September 3, 2025, on “Multilevel Interventions Supporting Health Decisions Across Settings.” See here for a recording of the talk.
Maura Kepper, MPH, PhD, an assistant professor at the School of Public Health, spoke on, “From Insight to Impact: Designing Sustainable, Context-Aware, and Personalized Care for Chronic Conditions.” The talk was September 10, 2025. See here for a recording of the talk.
This panel discussion at WashU and online explored the alarming decline in biodiversity at genetic, species, and ecosystem levels and its critical implications for food security and public health nutrition. With only nine plant species accounting for 65% of global food production, we face an unprecedented crisis that threatens resilient agrifood systems worldwide. Leading experts […]
Matthew Kreuter, MPH, PhD, the Kahn Family Professor of Public Health and co-director of the Health Communications Collaborative Innovation Research Network at the School of Public Health, gave a talk titled, “How Healthy is Today’s Health Information Ecosystem?” See here for a recording of the talk.
Event details to come later.
In this session of Thinking Public Health, we will reflect on the recent political violence. Our discussion will consider the broader forces that drive individuals and groups toward violence, the specific role of firearms in escalating conflict, and how health — as a shared value and collective good — can serve as a bridge to unite […]