School of Public Health welcomes its first official class a year ahead of schedule
The inaugural class includes MPH, PhD and dual-degree students as WashU’s School of Public Health begins formal planning for its academic future.
Global progress on physical activity at risk, WashU expert warns
Changing political priorities are siphoning resources away from efforts to promote physical activity and threaten to reverse decades of health gains, writes Rodrigo Reis.
Sports participation shields against suicide risk in teens, preteens — but fewer are taking the field
Analysis finds that students in sports are much less likely to report suicidal thoughts, behaviors.
Malone joins data council at national health services research group
Will advise AcademyHealth on trends, challenges in health services-research methods and data
NIH funding cuts to implementation science slowing progress on HIV
Implementation research has been critical driver toward ending HIV epidemic
$3M grant fuels global effort to transform health research and policy
WashU School of Public Health’s Sandro Galea and Salma Abdalla co-lead a $3 million initiative to transform health research and policy.
WashU summer camp merges art, public health education
Juliet Iwelunmor created the camp following the pandemic to show children that healthy communities are built by people, not just by government policies and scientific research.
Shining a light on psychiatric hospital safety
Research spurs federal push for transparency
WashU Expert: US cuts threaten global efforts to prevent violence against women, children
Nearly 1 in 3 women globally has been a victim of physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner, nonpartner, or both at least once.
WashU experts defend fluoride with facts
Helping Missouri communities make health decisions based on research.