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.
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Center director helps publish new journal supplement on HIV research advancements
Center for Dissemination & Implementation Director, Elvin Geng, MD has co-led a journal supplement on HIV advances and research.
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.
Enrolling in Medicaid in Missouri: Challenges, considerations and comparisons over time
Read more about the challenges and considerations involved in enrollment in MO Medicaid expansion.
Call for proposals: Institute offers Health Partnership Development, Pilot Funding
The institute offers two new funding opportunities surrounding solutions for those experiencing insecure housing and serious mental health issues.
Center leadership advocates for monitoring your blood pressure on World Hypertension Day (Links to an external site)
Global Health Center Director, Victor Davila-Roman, MD and co-Director, Mark Huffman, MD, advocate for monitoring your blood pressure on World Hypertension Day. Read their brief on their collaborations in Nigeria aimed at lowering high rates of this type and other cardiovascular disease.
Public Health Faculty Scholar looks for solutions to the St. Louis STI problem
Public Health Faculty Scholar, Hilary Reno MD, is working to help lower the rate of sexually transmitted infections in St. Louis, which has some of the highest in the country.
WashU researchers’ discovery opens new doors to HIV treatment
Public Health Faculty Scholars who work in the Division of Infectious Diseases have made a unique discovery that could positively impact HIV treatment.
Missouri Medicaid enrollment down 158,000 since unwinding began
Timothy McBride, PhD, reports on the latest Medicaid expansion enrollment numbers.
Summary: “Equity in Aging: A St. Louis Funders Meeting”
St. Louis area funders heard about health equity in aging from the co-directors of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging.
Center collaborates to publish policy recommendations for reimbursing community health workers
How to reimburse Community Health Workers through Medicaid expansion is the topic of a new white paper published by the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research.
Center director helps International Criminal Court Prosecutor launch policies on gender-based crimes and children at the United Nations
Read about how our Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration helped draft a new policy on gender-based crimes and presented it at to the International Criminal Court.
López presents at International Criminal Court Office of the Proscecutor
Written by Adriana Aramburu, manager, Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration Julia López, PhD, WashU assistant professor of medicine, public health faculty scholar and core faculty of the Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration, recently traveled to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to present on impacts and strategies related to […]
Gun violence expert speaks on prevention, shooter characteristics and mental health implications
The Department of Psychiatry and the Institute for Public Health recently collaborated to bring gun violence expert, Jillian Peterson to WashU for a special event on solutions for gun violence in St. Louis. Read more about it.
Global Health Center partners bring local to global effort full circle
Read about the Nov. 15 special event outlining the latest Local to Global Health partnership that is bringing home visits to pregnant women in STL and Nigeria, who are at high risk of heart disease.
Summary: Public Health at WashU Annual Conference 2023 centers on health equity, impactful community-academic partnerships
Read about and watch video clips from the Public Health at WashU Annual Conference 2023!
Partnership key to chronic disease prevention, study finds (Links to an external site)
A new WashU study by Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholars Maura Kepper and Amy Eyler and team, finds that collaborative partnerships are critical to responding to our community’s complex health inequities.
Wait goes on for effective long Covid treatments (Links to an external site)
WashU study co-author and epidemiologist, Ziyad Al-Aly, MD discusses the “staggeringly high burden” of long COVID in the past two+ years.
Center collaborator uses implementation science to advance mental health treatment for HIV patients in South Africa
Meet Asst. Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at WashU’s School of Medicine, Lindsey Filiatreau, PhD, MPH. She’s in the center collaborator dissemination & implementation SPOTLIGHT!
Public Health at WashU Annual Conference shines spotlight on university/community collaborations, health equity
Join the Provost’s office, the Here and Next Initiative and the Institute for Public Health for the 16th Annual Public Health at WashU Conference, Sept. 23-24!
Cure Violence helped cut violent crime in only 1 of 3 affected St. Louis areas, new study finds (Links to an external site)
The Institute for Public Health conducted a city-funded assessment of the Cure Violence St. Louis effort and found that the program had a positive effect in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood in N. STL.
Are You ‘Intellectualizing’ To Avoid Distress? Here’s How To Tell. (Links to an external site)
Institute Faculty Scholar, psychiatrist and asst. professor at WashU School of Medicine, Jessica Gold MD, says we have a tendency to reason our way out of feeling painful emotions.
Symposium helps advance antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention & implementation science
Read more about the collaborative symposium on Antimicrobial Stewardship’s role in health care and infectious disease prevention. It was recently hosted by the Center for D&I at the Institute for Public Health and WashU’s Division of Infectious Diseases.
Toolkit in action: Training on the Gender-based Violence Disclosure Toolkit in Mexico
Learn more about a toolkit training day in Mexico where service organization, Save the Children-Mexico learn how to assess disclosure of Gender-Based Violence.
Institute Director led study: Anti-inflammatory drugs did not speed COVID-19 recovery but prevented deaths (Links to an external site)
The Larry J. Shapiro Director of the Institute for Public Health, William Powderly, MD, was national lead investigator of a clinical trial involving patients with severe COVID who were administered two anti-inflammatory drugs. Read more about the study’s findings.
Treatment Resistant Depression (Links to an external site)
Psychiatrist and Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholar, Eric Lenze, MD, recommends taking two different classes of antidepressants raises the chances that you will “get better from depression.”
Maternal deaths in the US more than doubled over two decades. Black mothers died at the highest rate (Links to an external site)
Karen Joynt Maddox, MD spoke with the Associated Press about a recent study on the alarmingly high rate of maternal mortality. The story was also covered by ABC News & other major outlets.
Real-world reflections (Links to an external site)
Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholar Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, is featured in this month’s WashU’s Outlook Magazine about his work on “society’s biggest health issues through vast data analysis”
What a lifetime of long-COVID could look like for you (Links to an external site)
School of Medicine Clinical Epidemiologist and Faculty Scholar, Ziyad Al-Aly discusses how long COVID can manifest as heart problems.
D&I Spotlight: Postdoc leverages passion for racial equity & justice to “Make the science care”
Cory Bradley, PhD, MSW, MPH wraps up his final year as a postdoc. Read about how he uses implementation science as tool for “justice making.”
Center co-Director collaborates with university & Nigerian partners to curb hypertension
Co-Director of the Global Health Center, Mark Huffman and a group of WUSTL researchers are collaborating to help lower the large rate of cardiovascular disease in Nigeria. Read how.
WashU 2023 graduate & center collaborator authors paper on young people who experience violent injury
2023 dual master’s degree awardee, Zoe Miller discusses her work with the Public Health Data & Training Center and the Life Outside of Violence Program.
Summary: 2023 Friedman Lecture & Awards features innovations in quality mental health care for older adults
Read a summary of the 2023 Friedman Lecture & Awards held this spring.
Institute funds two projects aimed at preventing Opioid Use Disorder
The Institute for Public Health has awarded pilot funding to two projects working to end Opioid Use Disorder.
2023 Best/Worst States for Children’s Health Care (Links to an external site)
Faculty Scholar and Brown School Associate Professor, Derek Brown, PhD, talks about helping children grow up healthy.
LOV Program collaborators publish article on regional approach to violence prevention
An article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice walks us through the Life Outside of Violence Program methods and preliminary outcomes.
Chronic Stress Can be a Serious Problem: How to Spot the Symptoms (Links to an external site)
Dr. Jessi Gold, Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor and Director of Wellness at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis explains, “Unlike acute stress, which is a reaction to a specific event, chronic stress is a consistent feeling of being pressured or overwhelmed for a long period of time.”
SPOTLIGHT: Faculty Scholar works domestically and globally toward a cure for HIV
Learn more about the important work this infectious disease expert is doing both here and in Africa to eradicate HIV.
Long-Covid symptoms are less common now than earlier in the pandemic (Links to an external site)
Finally some good news about long COVID. Ziyad Al-Aly, director of WashU’s Clinical Epidemiology Center says its complicated, but LC symptoms are less common now.
Clinic workers say St. Louis needs more medical interpreters (Links to an external site)
Faculty Scholar & asst. Professor, Julia Lopez says messages about COVID vaccines & other health info has not reached non-English speakers in St. Louis.
End of public health emergency and telehealth: Top stories from the AHCJ Conference (Links to an external site)
The public health emergency declared in 2020 ends May 11. How will this impact Medicaid enrollment? Co-Director of the Center for Health Economics & Policy, Timothy McBride talked about it on a panel at the recent AHCJ conference in St. Louis.
Ukraine war crimes cases to open as International Criminal Court seeks 1st arrest warrants since Russia’s invasion (Links to an external site)
Professor of International Criminal Law Leila Sadat, special advisor on crimes against humanity to the ICC prosecutor, discusses how arrest warrants can be confirmed in absentia in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
2023 Friedman Lecture and Awards features innovations in quality mental health care for older adults
Don’t miss the 22nd Annual Friedman Lecture & Awards on April 21 for engaging keynote speakers and panelists to learn more about innovations in mental health care for older adults.
Why the scary fungus in ‘The Last of Us’ won’t cause an apocalyptic outbreak (Links to an external site)
If you’ve watched HBO’s “The Last of Us”, you know what a scary fungus in humans looks like. But it is real? Biological Anthropologist and Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholar, Theresa Gildner discusses.
Fact check: ICD-10 medical codes are used to track trends, not individuals (Links to an external site)
Co-Director of the Center for Health Economics & Policy, Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, weighs in on protections of personal medical information.
‘You will get better’: See the inspirational notes Sen. John Fetterman’s kids wrote while he’s treated for depression (Links to an external site)
Psychiatrist and Asst. Professor, Jessi Gold, MD discusses the importance of children to “see parents as human” and discuss mental health struggles in age-appropriate ways.
Center presents discussion on conflict-related atrocities & justice, March 27
Written by Kim Furlow, communications manager for the Institute for Public Health According to a Washington Post report, witnesses and victims’ relatives say that days before a peace deal was made to end the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region last fall, soldiers from neighboring Eritrea massacred more than 300 villagers over the course of a […]
What’s your current risk of getting long Covid? Estimates hover around 5%-10% (Links to an external site)
Chief of research and development at Veteran Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, Ziyad Al-Aly discusses the possibility of getting long COVID
WashU researcher collaborates with community organization to teach Black girls about equitable genomic research
Faculty Scholar and Asst. Professor, Brett Maricque and team are working with Black Girls Do STEM to help local students understand the value of their own genetic data.
Center funds two new community-academic partnerships
The Center for Community Health Partnership & Research has awarded funding to two projects through its PDSS program. Read more about these community-academic partnerships!