Medicine & Health

Millions of Americans rely on public assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid to meet basic needs for food and health care. Yet a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis finds that the very systems designed to help are often the hardest to navigate — especially for the people who need them most.

New findings reveal how pandemic-era policies and widespread Medicaid removals fueled a sharp rise in Affordable Care Act enrollment.

Proscovia Nabunya, at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a $5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health toward efforts to streamline mental health treatment and HIV medication support for adolescents living with HIV in rural Uganda.

Two projects connect local growers, educators and clinicians to nourish communities, strengthen health systems and support well-being across generations.

National experts — including WashU’s Sandro Galea — call for rethinking firearm violence as a preventable public-health crisis and investing in community, technology and research to create lasting safety.

The People’s Report Card, released by WashU’s QuEST Center and School of Public Health, grades U.S. health care on quality, cost, confidence and leadership.

When it comes to curbing gun violence in America, the field of public health should consider focusing less on the guns themselves and more on the human emotions that make people reach for guns in the first place, says a researcher from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

WashU’s Prevention Research Center delivered its Evidence-Based Public Health training in Puerto Rico, strengthening local health workforce capacity to tackle chronic disease and limited resources.

Funding from the National Science Foundation will enable researchers across many disciplines at Washington University in St. Louis to advance ongoing research into the damaging health effects of repeated flooding in Metro East communities.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a wearable device that aims to track blood loss in pregnant women during delivery, with support from a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The device aids in early warning signs for postpartum hemorrhage, a birth complication that is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide.