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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 […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, It is April, spring, bringing optimism, and storms. Some of the storms seem to grow more intense by the day. The new administration began layoffs last week at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, I hope you had a safe, peaceful weekend. Building a school, committees As we now start having critical mass of inaugural faculty and staff, we are ready to start building some of the foundational structures of a school, committees, […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, I hope everyone had a fine weekend. I use this space at times to reflect on contemporary circumstance, and how it might affect us. I wanted today to call out colleagues whose work has been directly affected by changes in federal […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis March 17, 2025 Dear colleagues, I hope everyone has had a good weekend.  We begin this week excited to welcome our first group of secondary faculty — an interdisciplinary mix of scientists, scholars, and educators who will help us shape the […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis March 10, 2025 Dear colleagues, I hope everyone has had a fine weekend. Before I begin today, I just wanted to write a brief note on gratitude and grace. Let me begin with gratitude.  We are building a School of Public […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis March 3, 2025 Dear colleagues, I hope everyone has had a fine weekend. A few happenings of the past week and in the coming week. Joining the School of Public Health You may have read in last week’s Record about the newest member […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, Good morning. In the past week, I have been reflecting quite a bit about fear. An array of executive orders and actions by the new administration in Washington has been bewildering at best and, in many ways, terrifying. Real people have been caught up in these […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, Good morning. I hope everyone has had a fine weekend. The past week We had a very good School Assembly last week. We discussed some of the changes in the world around us, how that intersects with our work, […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, Good morning. I hope everyone has had a fine weekend, even as the world swirls around us. There has been much that has transpired in the past week that may weigh on those of us engaged in the academic […]