Call for proposals: Institute offers Health Partnership Development, Pilot Funding (Links to an external site)

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The Institute for Public Health is offering two new funding opportunities for partnerships and projects that address the needs of people experiencing severe mental illness and housing insecurity. The new funding opportunities stem from a March 2024 Next Steps in Public Health event called, “Power in Partnership: Bridging from crisis to community for people experiencing […]

Center awards pilot funding to projects aimed at improving general, mental health care delivery (Links to an external site)

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The Center for Dissemination and Implementation is pleased to announce pilot funding for two projects that use dissemination and implementation science to advance health outcomes. Annually, D&I Pilot Grants fund up to $30,000 in direct costs per project for one year. The funding is designed to support a broad range of dissemination and implementation studies, […]

Red flags indicate risk for early-onset colorectal cancer (Links to an external site)

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified four important signs and symptoms that signal an elevated risk of early-onset colorectal cancer. These red flags may be key to earlier detection and diagnosis of early-onset colorectal cancer among younger adults. The number of young adults with colorectal cancer has nearly doubled […]

Woodard named head of Department of Radiology (Links to an external site)

Pamela K. Woodard, MD, a national leader in cardiothoracic imaging, has been named head of the Department of Radiology, director of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) and the Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She will begin her new role July 1.

Pamela K. Woodard, MD, a national leader in cardiothoracic imaging, has been named head of the Department of Radiology, director of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) and the Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She will begin her new role July 1.

Institute for Public Health center transforms by adding research arm, new mission and new name (Links to an external site)

Effective April 4, the Center for Health Economics and Policy at the Institute for Public Health is undergoing a transformation that will feature a broader mission and a new name: the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy and Economics Research. The new center will retain what is valuable to students, faculty and the community and add a research […]

An, Elson named 2023 AIMBE fellows (Links to an external site)

Two faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis — Hongyu An, PhD, a professor of radiology at the School of Medicine’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), and Elliot L. Elson, PhD, an emeritus professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics — have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological […]

A scientific grand slam (Links to an external site)

It’s a scientific grand slam for researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In the past week, they published papers in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Science and JAMA – all among the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.

Equity for African Americans in Alzheimer’s disease (Links to an external site)

For 20 years, the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center has worked to boost diversity in clinical trials. Alzheimer’s disease is like two deaths, said Stephanie Griffin, whose father died of the brain disease in 2015. “It’s horrific,” she said. “First, you watch them lose the ability to talk, to think, to do any of the […]