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May 13, 2021 SHARE
Matthew Kreuter, the Kahn Family Professor of Public Health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a one-year $1.4 million grant from National Institutes of Health’s Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities. Funding was supported by the American Rescue Plan.
The grant, which will help to increase COVID-19 vaccinations among Blacks in St. Louis City and County, has a number of partners, including the St. Louis City Department of Health, St. Louis County Department of Health, St. Louis COVID-19 Regional Response Team, United Way, Home State Health/Centene, 211, and Washington University’s Brown School, School of Medicine and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
More than half of cervical cancer cases in the United States occur in women who have not had timely Pap smears and/or HPV tests - screenings that allow.
Interventions beyond health navigators are needed to ensure access to prevention services
Scientists at Washington University studied a group of female callers in Missouri seeking assistance from a free and confidential phone service that helps people find basic resources. The researchers determined that many female callers were due for cervical cancer screenings but most did not schedule one, even with the support of a health navigator. Their findings indicate that a new approach is needed to achieve such screenings and, ultimately, lower the number of women treated for advanced cancer. (Photo: Getty Images)
April 16, 2021 SHARE
More than half of cervical cancer cases in the United States occur in women who have not had timely Pap smears and/or HPV tests screenings that allow for detection of precancerous or cancerous cells on the cervix. Encouraging low-income women in particular to participate in such screenings likely would improve cancer detection and save lives, but h
The COVID-19 crisis could reshape public health for the better.
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the already-existing fault lines in public health. How the field re-builds in the next 5-10 years could make all the difference for the next pandemic. Illustration by Molly Magnell, BFA 18
April 9, 2021 SHARE
Few are happy with how the COVID-19 pandemic was handled in the United States in its first year: staggering infection rates, hospitals running out of beds, a death toll that topped 500,000 (as of March 1, 2021). Restaurants and small businesses closed, opened and closed again, with many going out of business; unemployment numbers climbed; and in the midst of it all, misleading and conflicting information was both rampant and worrying.
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Moving scientific research results into public health and patient care more quickly could have a significant impact on health equity, finds a new paper from researchers at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Implementation science is the study of methods and strategies that help to speed evidence-based practice and research into regular use by public health and medical practitioners.
“The rallying call for implementation science is that it takes 17 years for 14% of original research to reach patient care this is sometimes called the ‘biomedical valley of death,’” said Ross Brownson, the Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor and a leading researcher on dissemination and implementation science.