Popularity of psilocybin, psychedelics hasn’t increased ER visits
It isn’t clear how increasing hallucinogen use has affected the health of users, says WashU Medicine’s Kevin Xu, a member of the SPH secondary faculty.
WashU: ACA, Medicaid expansion reduced Missouri uninsured
A policy analysis co-authored by WashU Public Health’s Tim McBride, Sarah Eisenstein, and Claire Ami Pavlides explains dramatic shifts in Missouri Medicaid coverage.
Evidence — not politics — is key to tackling gun violence, says WashU dean
Dean Sandro Galea speaks about a report he co-authored outlining a five-step, evidence-based roadmap to safer firearm regulation.
Missouri: hungry for solutions
WashU Public Health’s Food and Agriculture Research Mission is taking a new approach to tackling global challenges associated with agricultural production, food distribution and access to quality nutrition.
National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters
WashU Public Health’s Matt Kreuter and Rachel Garg report a dramatic spike in 211 food assistance calls as SNAP disruptions during the government shutdown trigger disaster-level demand.
Access to water has a long racial history in Durban
Historian of public health Kristin Brig-Ortiz, PhD, a member of the SPH secondary faculty, tells how the inequitable colonial-era water system in Durban, South Africa, continues to influence access to clean water in the city.
Students encouraged to shape their own learning in new Public Health & Society program
WashU’s undergraduate Program in Public Health & Society, a collaboration between WashU Public Health and Arts & Sciences, offers an opportunity for students to actively shape the evolving curriculum in which they participate.
Missouri Medicaid expansion is nearing a funding cliff few Missourians realize
WashU Public Health’s Tim McBride says Missouri’s Medicaid expansion faces a looming funding shortfall, with rural hospitals and patients likely to bear the brunt of delayed action.
Missouri residents trust their doctors, but doubt the health system
WashU Medicine’s Margaret Kruk, a secondary faculty member at WashU Public Health, led a national survey of Americans’ perceptions of the U.S. health-care system.
A gun violence ‘action plan’ calls for a new emphasis on prevention
WashU Public Health Dean Sandro Galea joins other experts calling for a prevention-focused action plan to address the root causes of gun violence.