Center co-director’s research shows age is overlooked in higher ed. diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

By Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging • April 2, 2024 Nancy Morrow-Howell, the Betty Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy at the Brown School and co-director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging is the lead author of the study, “Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education.” The study shows that […]

WashU researchers’ discovery opens new doors to HIV treatment

By Guest Author • March 27, 2024 Written by April Houston, MSW, MPH, knowledge translation & communications director, HLB-SIMPLe Research Alliance, Division of Infectious Diseases, WashU School of Medicine Scientists from Washington University have uncovered new insights into how HIV weakens the immune system of those it infects. Their findings were published in a recent edition of the journal Cell.   CD4 T […]

Missouri Medicaid enrollment down 158,000 since unwinding began

By Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research • March 21, 2024 Almost 36,000 applications remain pending, for an average for 57 days Written Timothy McBride, co-director of the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy and Economics Research March 2024 (updates based on February 2024 data). As the process of unwinding continues, total enrollment in Missouri’s Medicaid […]

Center collaborator: “Connections ensure trust and sustainability”

By Institute for Public Health •  If you hear a presentation by Professor of Medicine, Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD, from the Division of Infectious Disease at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, you immediately sense that she is passionate, well spoken, driven and committed to work that drives impact. Since joining the Department of Medicine in September […]

Center offers casual monthly collaboration for anyone interested in implementation science

By Center for Dissemination & Implementation • February 6, 2024 Written by Kim Furlow and Ashley Sturm, Center for Dissemination and Implementation The Center for Dissemination and Implementation invites those who have a new interest in or who are entrenched in implementation science to visit the monthly WUNDIR Café. WUNDIR stands for Washington University Network of Dissemination and Implementation […]

Physicians/Public Health Faculty Scholars publish review on current state of HIV

By Center for Dissemination & Implementation • December 7, 2023 In an article published in The Lancet on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, researchers Aaloke Mody, MD and Elvin Geng, MD, WashU physicians in infectious disease, provide insights into the evolving landscape of the global HIV response, offering updates on the current state of HIV epidemiology, treatment, and […]

Call for papers: Implementation science in epidemiology (Links to an external site)

This special issue solicits articles that use epidemiological methods to understand issues in the field of implementation science related to measurement, mechanisms and novel methods to measure impacts on population health. Guest editors: Elvin Geng and Byron Powell from WashU, and Gila Neta from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)