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Michal Grinstein-Weiss, the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor at the Brown School and director of the Social Policy Institute, spoke in March at the civil society forum of the United Nations session on the Commission on the Status of Women.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Brown School are working together to decrease the burden of COVID-19 on a vulnerable group. The School of Medicine will offer 50,000 saliva tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to students, teachers, and staff in the six special education schools operated by the Special School District of St. […]

The pandemic is exacerbating preexisting social and economic inequalities in the U.S. and abroad, finds a new study from the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis.

New research from faculty at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis is providing guidance to local policymakers on how they might contain the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 until vaccination ramps up to levels high enough to provide widespread protection.

“Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty,” a new book by Mark Rank, a leading academic expert on poverty at Washington University in St. Louis, explores the idealized image of American society.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has proposed providing at least $3,000 per child to millions of American families. The move could actually provide enormous future savings for the country, says one of the country’s foremost experts on poverty. “In earlier work, I’ve estimated that for every dollar we spend on reducing childhood poverty, we save anywhere […]

Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School, has been elected president of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Mary McKay, the Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean of the Brown School, has been elected as the  incoming president of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, and Renee Cunningham-Williams, associate professor at the Brown School, was inducted as an academy fellow. 

WashU alum Van Bergen, founder of Nest, helps artisans from around the world make a sustainable living and preserve their heritage.

The Brown School is celebrating Black History Month this February with a series of video tributes to Black achievers and open classroom learning sessions.