Author: Neil Schoenherr

During this open enrollment season, parents should consider privacy implications when adding their adult children to their health insurance plan, said a health insurance expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

Funding remains available for projects aimed at furthering understanding of civil discourse, free speech and personal responsibility through the university’s Frick Initiative.

Samuel Kizito, a PhD student in public health sciences at the Brown School, co-authored a correspondence published in The Lancet addressing the HIV epidemic among adolescents in Sierra Leone.

Rebecca Dresser, the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law Emerita, has been named recipient of the 2023 Bioethics Founders’ Award, presented by The Hastings Center.

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.