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WashU public health news
Stories and updates that touch on public health and public health figures at WashU.
WashU Public Health faculty, staff honored for cutting-edge, innovative research
Abdalla, Hanahan, Tutlam, Melendez Contreras receive Provost’s Research Excellence awards
A conversation with pediatric HIV researcher Massy Mutumba
Mutumba turned childhood fears of HIV/AIDS into a lifelong mission to combat the epidemic and help children living with HIV
Translational Science Benefits Model collection helps disseminate powerful tool
Designed to help scientists demonstrate impact, the model was developed by WashU Public Health researchers, others
Missouri’s health coverage is shifting fast, WashU analysis finds
New findings from WashU Public Health researchers reveal how pandemic-era policies and widespread Medicaid removals fueled a sharp rise in Affordable Care Act enrollment.
WashU Public Health at APHA 2025
Among the public health leaders, researchers and students at the APHA meeting November 2-5 were several from WashU Public Health sharing research.
A conversation with global health researcher Lindsay Stark
WashU Public Health Professor Lindsay Stark brings insight from global interdisciplinary research to her role as co-director of WashU’s undergraduate Public Health & Society Program.

In the News
Public health-related stories in the news media about or featuring comments from people at WashU.
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.

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