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Student Ambassador Interview with Irene Sok

A South Sudanese refugee practices carpentry in a vocational training center. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Refugees living outside camps make significant gains in self-reliance

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Health-related studies often yield conflicting results, and making sense of them can be challenging. Jose Luis Pelaez/Stone via Getty Images

Health headlines can be confusing - these 3 questions can help you evaluate them

The Conversation

Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, the WashU Medicine Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor, co-leads the team that developed a therapeutic food designed to treat childhood malnutrition. The microbiome-directed food has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2025. (credit: Matt Miller)

TIME Magazine names therapeutic microbiome-directed food a Best Invention of 2025

Complicating The Narrative with Salma Abdalla

Watch: Prof. Kim Thuy Seelinger on Complicating the Narrative

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Apply for the Summer Global Public Health Research Program! Deadline: January 20

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10 Tips for Making the Most of Break

Center for Career Engagement

WashU School of Public Health has several scholarship programs, including three that are designed to increase access to graduate public health education for students from St. Louis, the region, and surrounding states. (PHOTO: Zachary Linhares/WashU Publlc Health)

School of Public Health Announces New Scholarships

Toolkit aims to aid disclosure of gender-based violence

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Police tape blocks a city street following a violent incident. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Toward a safer world by 2040

Lapada Pavanacharoensuk (left), a WashU Medicine physical therapy student volunteer, and Mackenzie Halton (right), a WashU Medicine occupational therapy student leader, work together with a patient on balance, motor skills and memory at the Pro Bono Health Clinic. Medical, occupational therapy and physical therapy students provide services to uninsured and underinsured community members every Friday afternoon.

Together, WashU Medicine MD, OT, PT students treat patients at Pro Bono Health Clinic