Public Health in Progress weekly newsletter

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues, A milestone, a thank you, and cake This is a big week in the history of the WashU School of Public Health — our self-study report that summarizes what we are doing as a school is submitted to the […]

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 […]

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 — […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues,  Recovering from a natural disaster  The past week was marked in St. Louis by recovery from the worst tornado to hit the city in 15 years, and certainly the worst to hit WashU. Many members of our community had […]

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 […]

Weekly news from the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis Dear colleagues,  A very warm congratulations to all the students who are graduating from WashU today, including the students who are graduating with their MPH and PhD in public health sciences from the Brown School.  We do what we do in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]