Visit here for news about WashU School of Public Health and the many people at WashU whose lives and work intersect with public health. Here you can find monthly and weekly newsletters from the dean; stories and briefs written about WashU students, faculty, staff and initiatives that touch on public health; and stories in the news media involving the school’s faculty, students or staff or others at WashU whose work focuses on public health.
Public Health at WashU monthly community notes
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May 2025: The public health education of the future
On nurturing excellent teachers and students, paving the way for the next generation
April 2025: On excellence in science and scholarship
Engaging world-class faculty and staff to generate transformative science and scholarship
March 2025: Local and global impact
Aligning academic public health to improve the health of the public
Public Health in Progress weekly newsletters
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WashU public health news
Stories and updates that touch on public health and public health figures at WashU.
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.
In the News
Public health-related stories in the news media about or featuring comments from people at WashU.
To keep Medicaid, a mom caring for her disabled adult son may soon need to prove she works
Tim McBride comments on the impact of the proposed Medicaid work requirement on Missourians
A closer look at what Medicaid cuts would do to Missouri
Tim McBride on the far-reaching impacts of proposed federal Medicaid legislation
Missouri health providers and advocates raise alarms ahead of vote on ‘big, beautiful’ bill
WashU Medicine’s Karen Joynt Maddox discusses the real-world impact of Medicaid expansion and what could be lost if proposed federal cuts move forward.