The University’s Institute for Public Health has appointed 130 campus-wide faculty scholars. These scholars, appointed for three-year, renewable terms, have been chosen on the basis of their research and teaching interests in public health and willingness to engage in collaborative work with other Institute scholars. For a full listing of scholars and to learn more about their work, go to the Institute’s new web site at http://publichealth.wustl.edu.
Scholars will be eligible for small team grants to foster interdisciplinary programs and projects. They also will be invited to attend and participate in Institute programs, lectures and workgroups on public health issues. Additionally, scholars will work with a University network of individuals already conducting public health research and be encouraged to collaborate on multidisciplinary research and program development projects. Over time, the Institute will develop infrastructure to foster collaborative public health research, teaching and service across the University.
Faculty interested in the Institute’s faculty scholars program, can contact publichealth@wustl.edu or go to http://publichealth.wustl.edu/ for more information.
The Institute also recently announced the first three recipients of the Interdisciplinary Public Health Project grants. These grantees, all Institute Scholars, will be part of new groups to produce innovative proposals to tackle significant public health problems.
Richard Grucza, Ph.D., research assistant professor of psychiatry, has received funding for his project titled, “Linking Genetically Informative Addiction Data Sets to Objectively Measured Environmental Data via Geo-coding.”
Christine Hoehner, Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery, has received funding for her project titled, “Health Impact Assessment: Promoting Health Priorities in Policy, Planning and Design.”
Susan B. Racette, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy and medicine, has received funding for her project titled, “Nourishing an Urban Community: Phase I.”
Learn more about these projects and the interdisciplinary teams at http://publichealth.wustl.edu.