Author: Neil Schoenherr

Gena Gunn McClendon, director of community engagement at the Brown School’s Center for Social Development, died Oct. 21, 2023, in St. Louis after a battle with cancer. She was 65.

Washington University is partnering with the St. Louis Integrated Health Network on a five-year $3.8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The funding aims to help improve health, prevent chronic diseases and reduce health disparities.

The university’s Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law announced the appointment of a new faculty co-director from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Richard Cote, MD, the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology.

Leopoldo Cabassa, a professor at the Brown School, has been appointed as a member of the Mental Health First Aid Research Advisory Board.

Nhial Tutlam at the Brown School, associate director for research at the International Center for Child Health and Development, won a research scientist career development award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

After Medicaid expansion began in Missouri in July 2021, the proportion of emergency department visits financed by Medicaid rose by nearly 15 percentage points, while the proportion of such visits financed by the uninsured dropped by 14 percentage points, finds a new analysis from the university’s Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy and Economics Research.

Ruopeng An, an associate professor at the Brown School, has been accepted as a fellow in the American Academy of Health Behavior, the professional home for health behavior scholars and researchers.

Joe Steensma, a professor of practice at the Brown School, has been named Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at The Engineering & Design Institute London.

In August, Americans made nearly a million calls for help to the 211 emergency resources helpline, according to 211 Counts, a national tracking system in 36 states developed by the Brown School’s Health Communication Research Laboratory.

Responding to complex health inequities in communities requires collaborative partnerships, according to a study from the Brown School.