Perspectives

Jim Wertsch, director emeritus of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and Chancellor Emeritus Mark S. Wrighton write an op-ed published in the South China Morning Post criticizing President Donald Trump’s order to end the Fulbright scholar exchange program with China. They say that, as COVID-19 has made clear, “global cooperation is needed to solve problems […]

Cancelling the Fulbright programmes between China and the U.S. eliminates one of the most doable paths to future successes. President Trump’s executive order should be rescinded immediately, write James Wertsch and Mark Wrighton.

Healthcare in rural Missouri faces an uncertain future, but Medicaid expansion offers us an opportunity to keep hospitals afloat, improve rural health, and bring tax dollars back to our state. Our neighboring states are seeing the benefits of Medicaid expansion, and August 4th is Missouri’s chance to join them, write Adrienne Visani, Evaline Xie and Kristine Huang.

As a medical student, I will be at the polls advocating for the expansion of Medicaid, which will save the lives and livelihoods of my future patients. In reality, however, we all have a social responsibility to preserve the health of our communities—in this case it’s as easy as voting yes, writes Nikita Sood.

Adia Harvey Wingfield, of Arts & Sciences, has published an article in the Harvard Business Review explaining how the university has built “one of the more racially diverse departments in academia today,” the Department of Sociology in Arts & Sciences.

Not only is it the right thing to do for so many who lack access to health care, but I can’t think of anything that could more quickly transform the economic outlook of St. Louis, its surrounding counties and the state of Missouri, writes David Perlmutter.

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and Saint Louis University President Fred Pestello co-author an op-ed in the St. Louis American about the importance of expanding Medicaid. The issue is before voters in the Aug. 4 election.

Voting yes on Amendment 2 brings federal dollars back to Missouri to serve the people who deserve them. That means 230,000 hard-working people – including 36,000 Black Missourians – will have access to health care they currently cannot afford. We owe it to them to bridge this unethical gap by making sure our voices are heard, writes Andrew Martin.

Cecelia L. Calhoun, MD, at the School of Medicine, co-writes an op-ed published in USA Today about how Black medical students and health-care workers can change the health-care system to end racial disparities in medicine.

Shaming and threatening students will only obstruct public-health efforts. If universities want to reopen and stay open, administrators need to adopt a compassionate and realistic approach that supports students in staying socially connected and mentally healthy—not just free of coronavirus infection, writes Jessica Gold.