Jacco Boon, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, spoke with Anthony Morabith on “Show Me Today” about the next-generation mucosal vaccine that he developed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Long COVID-19 risk has decreased, thanks to vaccines, recent study suggests (Links to an external site)
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine & co-authored by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar, found that vaccines have reduced the risk of developing long COVID.
‘Jamaica to the world’ (Links to an external site)
Steven Fazzari, PhD, professor of economics and sociology, and Public Health Faculty Scholar, talks about Kamala Harris’ father, Don Harris, his doctoral thesis adviser at Stanford, in a CNN article.
For Your Health – Finding Cancer Sooner with a Simple Blood Test (Links to an external site)
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, Deputy Dir, Institute for Public Health, & Aimee James, PhD, professor, & Public Health Faculty Scholars, discuss multi-cancer detection tests – blood tests which may provide easier and more accessible early cancer detection.
Ssewamala awarded $3.3 millions in grant fund research for adolescent girls transitioning into young adulthood in Uganda (Links to an external site)
The research team of Fred Ssewamala, PhD, Proscovia Nabunya, PhD, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, PhD, & Derek Brown, PhD, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholars, has been awarded a grant from the NIMH for a study focused on Ugandan adolescent girls
Washington University professor says Medicaid drug price reductions are overdue (Links to an external site)
Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research Co-Director, Timothy McBride, PhD, weighs in on the Biden Administration’s price cuts for 10 of Medicare’s costliest and most taken prescription drugs.
White House says prescription drug deals will produce billions in savings for taxpayers, seniors (Links to an external site)
Rachel Sachs, JD, MPH, professor of law, School of Law, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, advised the Biden Administration on implementation of a law reducing prices of 10 of Medicare’s priciest drugs.
Ugandan Women’s Autonomy Key to Safer Sex (Links to an external site)
Fred Ssewamala, PhD, professor, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, co-authored a correspondence in The Lancet on how empowering Ugandan women to develop autonomy can reduce their exposure to HIV, creating a safer environment.
Ugandan women’s autonomy key to safer sex (Links to an external site)
Fred Ssewamala, PhD, professor, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, co-authored a correspondence in The Lancet on how empowering Ugandan women to develop autonomy can reduce their exposure to HIV, creating a safer environment.
Sachs appointed to Illinois governor’s advisory council (Links to an external site)
Rachel Sachs, JD,MPH, professor of law, School of Law, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, has been appointed to the Illinois Advisory Council on Financing & Access to Sickle Cell Disease Treatment & Other High-Cost Drugs and Treatments.
California’s Park Fire is spawning its own smoke thunderclouds (Links to an external site)
“PyroCbs are such massive, almost volcanic-like eruptions,” said Rajan Chakrabarty, PhD, professor, McKelvey Engineering, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, in an article about the pyrocumulonimbus cloud created by Northern California’s Park Fire.
Long COVID continues to evade diagnosis through lab tests (Links to an external site)
Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor, Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, weighs in on a recent large study looking at abnormal findings in standardized laboratory tests to help diagnose long COVID.
How to not get divorced (Links to an external site)
Liberty Vittert, PhD, professor of the practice of data Science at Olin and Public Health Faculty Scholar, explains how to not get divorced in an opinion piece she wrote for “The Hill.”
Untargeted lipidomics reveals racial differences in lipid species among women (Links to an external site)
Jingqin Luo, PhD, associate professor of Surgery & Adetunji Toriola, MD, PhD, professor of surgery, & public health faculty scholars, published “Untargeted lipidomics reveals racial differences in lipid species among women” in Biomarker Research
DNA fragments help detect kidney organ rejection (Links to an external site)
Tarek Alhamad, MD, professor of medicine, medical director of transplant nephrology, Division of Nephrology, and Public Health Faculty Scholar, is part of a team that identified a new way of detecting organ rejection.
Instagram now has AI boyfriends and girlfriends. Here’s what it’s like chatting with them. (Links to an external site)
AI romantic partners? Liberty Vittert, PhD, professor of the practice of data science, Olin Business School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, weighs in on Meta’s new AI Studio, which lets you create and DM custom chatbots.
Overcoming Systemic Barriers to Make Patient-Partnered Research a Reality (Links to an external site)
Bettina Drake, PhD, professor of surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, co-authored “Overcoming systemic barriers to make patient-partnered research a reality,” published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Expanding a Behavioral View on Digital Health Access: Drivers and Strategies to Promote Equity (Links to an external site)
Maura Kepper, PhD, assistant professor, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is lead author of a paper that explores how digital health tools can improve health equity, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Nasal COVID Vaccine Stops Infection in Animal Trials (Links to an external site)
“To prevent transmission, you need to keep the amount of virus in the upper airways low,” says senior researcher Jacco Boon, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, about a next-generation nasal vaccine for COVID-19.
Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission (Links to an external site)
Jacco Boon, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, was senior author of a study finding that next-generation mucosal vaccines sprayed into the nose or dropped into the mouth may prevent the spread of respiratory infections.
Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission (Links to an external site)
Jacco Boon, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, was senior author of a study finding that mucosal vaccines sprayed into the nose or dropped into the mouth may prevent the spread of respiratory infections.
California’s Park Fire is spawning its own smoke thunderclouds (Links to an external site)
Rajan Chakrabarty, PhD, professor, McKelvey Engineering, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is quoted in an article about the pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb, a smoke thundercloud created by Northern California’s Park Fire.
Heritage Foundation, not Project 2025, proposes Social Security cuts (Links to an external site)
Timothy McBride, PhD, co-director, Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research and Public Health Faculty Scholar, weighs in on the Heritage Foundation’s plan to reform Social Security.
How tea can soothe and energize (Links to an external site)
Are you thinking of making the switch from coffee to tea? Adetunji Toriola, MD, PhD, professor of surgery & Public Health Faculty Scholar, explains why that could be a good idea.
WashU researchers quantify solar absorption by black carbon in fire clouds (Links to an external site)
“This work addresses a key challenge in quantifying black carbon’s radiative effect on the upper atmosphere,” says Rajan Chakrabarty, PhD, professor, McKelvey School of Engineering, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, about his recently published research.
Missouri among best in nation for crisis hotline call response but lacks treatment (Links to an external site)
Ryan R. Lindsay, MSW, LCSW, professor of practice, Brown School, and Public Health Faculty Scholar, weighs in on Missouri’s rollout of the national 988 mental health hotline.
Where Generative AI Is Working for Doctors—and Where It’s Falling Short (Links to an external site)
Thomas Maddox, MD, professor of medicine, VP of digital products & innovation, BJC HealthCare, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, explains his recent implemented pilot of ambient note-taking software, in a Newsweek article on AI in health care.
Faculty Receive Grants for Diabetes Health Disparities and Mental Health Research (Links to an external site)
Leopoldo Cabassa, PhD, professor, Brown School, co-director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research, & Dan Ferris, PhD, assistant professor of practice, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholars, have received research grants to address disparities in diabetes health management and to improve mental health care delivery.
How to win at online dating using AI (Links to an external site)
How can we be successful with on-line dating when it is rigged for failure? Liberty E. Vittert, PhD, professor of the practice of data science, Olin Business School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, says that an AI-integrated dating app can help.
Reimagining public health: a path forward (Links to an external site)
There is optimism among public health professionals — in both red and blue states — according to research conducted by Ross C. Brownson, the Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor at the Brown School and a WashU Public Health Faculty Scholar.
A scientist took a psychedelic drug — and watched his own brain ‘fall apart’ (Links to an external site)
Ginger Nicol, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Public Health Faculty Scholar, and co-senior author of a new study published in Nature, says that psychedelics, such as psilocybin, can offer scientists a “different way of thinking about learning and recovery.”
Long COVID Risk Has Declined Over the Pandemic and Vaccines May Be Key (Links to an external site)
“The research on declining rates of long COVID marks the rare occasion when I have good news to report regarding this virus,” said senior author Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar, about new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Long COVID Risk Has Fallen, Largely Attributable to Vaccine Rollout (Links to an external site)
The risk of developing long COVID has significantly decreased since the start of the pandemic, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine & co-authored by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar.
Long COVID Risk Has Dropped Since Start of Pandemic (Links to an external site)
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine & co-authored by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar, found that chances of developing long COVID have significantly dropped since the pandemic began due to vaccinations and changes in the virus.
High stress during pregnancy linked to elevated cortisol in toddlers’ hair, study finds (Links to an external site)
Theresa Gildner, PhD, assistant professor of biological anthropology, Arts & Sciences, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, co-authored a published study finding a link between cortisol levels in toddlers’ hair and maternal prenatal depression.
Psilocybin generates psychedelic experience by disrupting brain network (Links to an external site)
Ginger Nicol, MD, associate professor of psychiatry & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is co-senior author of a study offering suggestions to scientists on how to evaluate the effects of psychoactive drugs, such as psilocybin, on brain function.
Reimagining public health: a path forward (Links to an external site)
Ross C. Brownson, PhD, professor of public health, Brown School & School of Medicine & Public Health Faculty Scholar, co-authored an essay, “Reimagining Public Health,” lead article in a special issue of Health Affairs, making recommendations to restore faith in public health since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Risk of long COVID declined over course of pandemic (Links to an external site)
The risk of acquiring long COVID has dropped since the start of the pandemic, primarily due to vaccination, although it is still a persistent threat, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine & co-authored by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar.
Center director helps publish new journal supplement on HIV research advancements (Links to an external site)
Elvin Geng, MD, director, Center for Dissemination & Implementation & Public Health Faculty Scholar, co-edited the latest supplement of the Journal of the International AIDS Society, which focuses on the latest advancements & research in HIV/AIDS treatment & prevention.
Racial disparities in dementia determined by social factors (Links to an external site)
A study published by Jorge Llibre-Guerra, MD, assistant professor of neurology and Public Health Faculty Scholar, and colleagues, found that increased risk of cognitive decline in people of Native American or African ancestry is due to social determinants of health.
Newly ID’d enzyme helps pathogenic fungus build protective cell wall (Links to an external site)
Tamara Doering, MD, PhD, professor of molecular microbiology & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is the senior author of a study published in PNAS, which identified a novel enzyme involved in cell wall formation of the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.
Researchers find biological clues to mental health impacts of prenatal cannabis exposure (Links to an external site)
Ryan Bogdan, PhD, professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences & Public Health Faculty Scholar, published research in Nature Mental Health on prenatal cannabis exposure causing possible mental health conditions in children & adolescents.
Older teens in foster care can now choose their own families in Kansas (Links to an external site)
Patrick Fowler, PhD, prof & director, Doctoral Program in Public Health Sciences, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, was a guest on “All Things Considered” talking about a new Kansas law allowing older teenagers in foster care to choose their own families.
For Your Health – A Sweet Change: Cutting Back on Added Sugars (Links to an external site)
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, deputy director, Institute for Public Health, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, explains how we can reduce our sugar intake to decrease weight gain and chronic inflammation, lowering our risk of many chronic diseases.
Midwest Center for AIDS Research to help end regional HIV epidemic (Links to an external site)
One of our own center directors has been tapped to lead a new HIV research center for the Midwest. Find out more about Elvin Geng and team’s plans for the new Midwest Center for AIDS Research.
Why the Supreme Court’s overrule of Chevron has major implications for the FDA (Links to an external site)
“It overrules Chevron, but it says very little about what should replace it,” says Rachel Sachs, JD, professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar, about the overturned Chevron doctrine which could weaken federal agencies such as the FDA.
Pep, pep, hooray: Both hot and not, peppers are rich in antioxidants and vitamins (Links to an external site)
Yin Cao, ScD, associate professor & Public Health Faculty Scholar, explains why peppers contain beneficial nutrients & how eating them may help reduce inflammation from arthritis, improve joint health & reduce the risk of acquiring chronic inflammatory diseases.
WashU Medicine launches Center for Translational Bioinformatics (Links to an external site)
WashU School of Medicine’s new Center for Translational Bioinformatics, will be jointly overseen by Philip Payne, PhD, professor of medicine., Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, & Public Health Faculty Scholar.
Cannabis use tied to increased risk of severe COVID-19 (Links to an external site)
Li-Shiun Chen, MD, ScD, professor of psychiatry, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, is the senior author of a new study published in JAMA Network Open finding that cannabis use is associated with increased risk of serious illness for patients with COVID-19.
Modifying Homes for Stroke Survivors Helps Them Stay Independent (Links to an external site)
A team led by Susan Stark, PhD, professor, Program in Occupational Therapy, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, published a study in the “Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation”, that tested a St. Louis program where occupational therapists visit stroke patients’ homes after leaving the hospital.