Environmental Justice

Water utilities regularly monitor drinking water supplies. But once water enters the individual plumbing of households, there are no checks on what’s coming out of the tap.

The Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professor of Public Health talks hunger, nutrition and the promise she sees in the new School of Public Health

The School of Public Health is accelerating its growth, with new faculty, staff and students joining its ranks, two locations now fully operational and core initiatives driving interdisciplinary collaboration and community impact.

Nearly half (47%) of St. Louis adults surveyed reported hearing about a recall of “radioactive shrimp” in the last 7 days; only 18% reported hearing about wide racial gaps in infant mortality in Missouri during the same time.

In May, WashU Olin Business School graduate students presented a sophisticated tool they developed to measure neighborhood vibrancy to a group of civic leaders, business owners and community members in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood of north St. Louis.

This fall, Washington University in St. Louis officially will welcome its inaugural class of students to the new School of Public Health a full year ahead of schedule.

A sweeping new analysis from Washington University in St. Louis has found that global progress to promote physical activity — a proven driver of better health — is in danger of stalling or reversing.

15 newly designated garden “Connection Points” are across WashU’s Danforth Campus, part of a broader effort led by the Brown School’s Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies.

A WashU anthropologist joins a study uncovering the surprising sources — and overlooked sufferers — of an increasingly common disease.