Faculty News Archive

December 2023

• Travis Loux, Ph.D. and colleagues published the study "A cross-sectional study: Association between tobacco/alcohol usage and mental health with disabilities."

November 2023

• Fr. Michael Rozier and student volunteers published a report in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice titled 'Neither Words nor Images: Health Departments' and Hospitals' Use of Twitter During COVID-19 Had Limited Racial Representation and Content on Disparities Decreased Over Time' that determined the degree to which hospitals and state health departments used written content or visual representation on social media to draw attention to racial disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 2023

• Spring Schmidt, Director of the Office of Public Health Practice at SLU & CPHSJ was named to the St. Louis Magazine list "Women who make St. Louis great."

September 2023

• Professor Echu Liu, Ph.D., MBA and colleagues published the research "The impact of healthcare industry convergence on the performance of the public health system: a geospatial modeling study of provincial panel data from China."
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Public Health and Social Justice) was quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the difficulty surrounding getting the updated COVID-19 booster.
• Steve Rigdon, Ph.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was an author on a study that proposed a framework for developing data-driven prescriptive optimization models with risk criteria for traditional trucking applications. The study 'Shortest Path Problems with a Crash Risk Objective' was just published in the 'Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.'
• Keon Gilbert, DrPH (Behavioral Science and Health Education) co-authored the research article "An Invitation to Imagine: Conclusion of the HPP Series “What Is Anti-Racism in Health Promotion Practice?”" in the Health Promotion Practice journal. The article discusses their invitation to scholars and practitioners to review all 17 contributions to the series and to continue to ask – and address – the question ‘What is anti-racism in our practice, scholarship, and lives?”

August 2023

• Professor Katherine A. Stamatakis, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Aly Terhaar from CPHSJ contributed to the published study 'A Communitywide Collaboration to Increase Enrollment, Retention, and Success in Evidence-Based Lifestyle-Change Programs in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations.' 

July 2023

• Saint Louis University was named on the of the 20 best universities for health administration by Becker’s Hospital Review. 
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (TGI) was highlighted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Washington Exec for being named to the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Board of Directors. 
• The Mosquito Alert STL project team is promoting use of this smartphone app around our community. MASTL team members Jeanine Arrighi (St. Louis Academic Health), Alexis Bingham (SLU Masters candidate and MASTL student partner), and Ricardo Wray, Ph.D., (Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice) talk with Earthworms podcast host (and fellow MASTL team partner) Jean Ponzi about this exciting, locally evolving work. 
• Terri Rebmann, Ph.D. was quoted in Healio about a study that showed with universal masking at Saint Louis University there was no increase in COVID-19 after ending distancing rules.

June 2023

• Roger Lewis, Ph.D. (Environmental and Occupational Health emeritus) was quoted in St. Louis Public Radio about Jana Elementary being safe for students to return to the building. 
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (TGI), Vasit Sagan, Ph.D. (TGI), Justin M. Vilbig (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), and Geoffrey Kangogo (Graduate) were all featured in Eurekalert and Scienmag about TGI-led research that found climate change and population increases in Kenya could threaten the country with famine. 
• Dr. Anne Sebert Kuhlmann's (Behavioral Science and Health Education) research on period poverty in St. Louis & work with local organization 'Dignity Period' was featured in a recent Ladue News publication regarding Dr. Kuhlmann's work to bring local and global access to sanitary menstrual hygiene products.

May 2023

• Keon Gilbert, Dr.PH. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was quoted in AOL News, Yahoo! Lifestyle and Men’s Health about what the public needs to know about COVID-19 now that the national public health emergency has ended. 

• Keon Gilbert, Dr.PH., (Behavioral Science and Health Education) and colleagues published the research publication titled "Racial Discrimination of Adolescents With Special Healthcare Needs" in the 'Journal of Adolescent Health.'

• Professor Enbal Shacham, recent doctoral graduates Stephen Scroggins and Matthew Ellis, recently published the research article 'Implementing Geospatial Science and Technology to Get to Zero New HIV Infections' in the journal 'Current HIV/AIDS Reports'

• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Public Health and Social Justice) was quoted in the St. Louis Business Journal about St. Charles County reporting the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths in the region.

• Roger Lewis, Ph.D. (Environmental and Occupational Health) was interviewed by KSDK-TV Ch. 5 and KMOV-TV Ch. 4 as a part of a technical forum on radiation reports at Jana Elementary School hosted by SLU. Spectrum News and St. Louis Public Radio also covered the forum.

• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Public Health and Social Justice) was quoted in Phys.org, Sky News, My Droll and Newswise about climate change leading to a hotter, drier climate in Kenya, posing a major threat to terrestrial ecosystems with far-reaching social and ecological impacts.

April 2023

• Interim Dean Ellen Barnidge, Ph.D. (Public Health and Social Justice) was quoted in St. Louis Public Radio, Belleville News-Democrat and Yahoo! News about Cahokia Heights becoming a food desert following the closing of the area Walmart.

• Keon Gilbert, Dr.PH., (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was quoted in the Bharat Express News about the pandemic ending and what that means going forward.

• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Public Health and Social Justice) was quoted in Phys.org, Sky News, My Droll and Newswise about climate change leading to a hotter, drier climate in Kenya, posing a major threat to terrestrial ecosystems with far-reaching social and ecological impacts.

• Nancy Weaver, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was interviewed by KMOV-TV Ch. 4 about Child Abuse Prevention Month and how to prevent child abuse.
• Ricardo Wray, Ph.D. (Behavioral Sciences and Health Education) and other researchers from Saint Louis University collaborated on research efforts to publish the work titled 'Development of a Hospice Perceptions Instrument for Diverse Patients and Families' in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
• Ricardo Wray, Ph.D., (Behavioral Sciences and Health Education) was interviewed by KMOV-TV Ch. 4 about Mosquito Alert STL, which helps track mosquitos in the St. Louis region to promote public health. The story was syndicated to KYTV-TV Ch. 3 (Springfield, Missouri) and KSPR-TV Ch. 33 (Springfield, Missouri).
• Juliet Iwelunmor, Ph.D., (Behavioral Science and Health Education) and colleagues published the research publication titled 'Sustaining HIV Research in Resource-Limited Settings Using PLAN (People, Learning, Adapting, Nurturing): Evidence from the 4 Youth by Youth Project in Nigeria' in the 'Current HIV/AIDS Reports' publication.

March 2023

• Professor Zhengmin Qian, Ph.D., M.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), contributed to the research study "Air pollution associated with incidence and progression trajectory of chronic lung diseases: a population-based cohort study" with researchers at other institutions and universities in the respiratory and epidemiology journal 'Thorax.'
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) and other researchers collaborated to link together geospatial science and health in the research article 'A practitioner's guide to geospatial analysis in a neuroimaging context' published in the Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (DADM) journal.
• Terri Rebmann, Ph.D., special assistant to the president, director of the Institute for Biosecurity, and a Professor of Epidemiology at the Saint Louis University College for Public Health & Social Justice, published the study 'Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Infection Prevention and Control Field: Findings From Focus Groups Conducted with Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology (APIC) Members in Fall 2021' in the American Journal of Infection Control.

February 2023

• Ricardo Wray, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education), was interviewed by KSDK-TV Ch. 5 and Spectrum News about Mosquito Alert STL and how citizen science can help control its population. He and Spring Schmidt, Ph.D., (Public Health Practice), were also mentioned on KSDK-TV Ch.5's web story.
• Juliet Iwelunmor, Ph.D. (Global Health and Behavioral Science and Health Education), was featured in The St. Louis American for her work to build the next generation of HIV researchers with her organized young adult implementation HIV research as part of I-TEST and recent grants.
• Keon Gilbert, Dr.PH. (Behavioral Science and Health Education), was interviewed by Capital Public Radio about Tyre Nichols's death and the culture of law enforcement and traffic stops.
• Juliet Iwelunmnor, Ph.D., (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was quoted by The Guardian and The Nation about the epidemic of cervical cancer in Nigeria.

January 2023

• Professors Zhengmin Qian, Ph.D., M.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Echu Liu, Ph.D., M.B.A. (Health Management and Policy), along with other researchers at the university and globally published the study 'Short-term air pollution exposure associated with death from kidney diseases: a nationwide time-stratified case-crossover study in China from 2015 to 2019' in the BMC Medicine research journal.
• Kimberly Enard, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy), recently published a systematic review paper in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) on how social determinants of health influence heart failure outcomes. Co-authors include HMP doctoral students Alyssa Coleman and Aver Yakubu and other colleagues.
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education), was featured in a Q&A with Trajectory Magazine about public health and geospatial research.
• Saint Louis University was mentioned in MSN.com and NASDAQ as a top university in St. Louis, one of the top 10 big cities with affordable apartments for rent.

December 2022

• Recent doctoral graduate Stephen Scroggins, professor Enbal Shacham and other Saint Louis University faculty and students recently published the research article 'Spatial Optimization to Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation' in "Vaccines," an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published monthly online by MDPI.
• Dr. Nancy Weaver (Professor of Behavioral Science) recently published articles in the OESIS Intrepid News titled 'Who We Are: Three Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom' and 'More Art Is What We Need Most.'
• Travis Loux, Ph.D. (Associate Professor; Biostatistics) recently published a research paper in 'Pediatric Obesity,' titled "Trends in U.S. adolescent physical activity and obesity: A 20-year age-period-cohort analysis." This research was done with students Morgan Matusik (M.P.H. alum) and Asja Hamzic (undergrad biostatistics major).

November 2022

• Anne K. Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) published the research 'COVID-19 made it harder to access period products: The effects of a pandemic on period poverty' in Frontiers in Reproductive Health with former and current students as co-authors.

October 2022

• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Sciences and Health Education) was quoted in a WBEZ Chicago story about what happens when COVID-19 data goes missing.
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Sciences and Health Education) was quoted in the LA Times article 'Got COVID? Your symptoms may depend on your vaccination status' about using nontraditional data sources to track COVID' and in a WBEZ Chicago story about what happens when COVID-19 data goes missing.

September 2022

• Dr. Anne Sebert Kuhlmann's (Behavioral Science and Health Education) research on period poverty in St. Louis high schools were featured in the KSDK Ch. 5 article ''I shouldn't be penalized because I'm having a period': Period poverty continues in St. Louis'
• Dr. Nancy Weaver (Professor of Behavioral Science), recently had an article published in the OESIS Intrepid News titled "More Art Is What We Need Most."
• Associate Dean for Research in the College for Public Health and Social Justice & professor Enbal Shacham, Ph.D., was quoted in a recent KSDK Ch. 5 article about the rise of STIs in the St. Louis region.

July 2022

• Terri Rebmann, Ph.D., special assistant to the president, director of the Institute for Biosecurity, and a Professor of Epidemiology in the Saint Louis University College for Public Health & Social Justice, was featured as a special guest on the APIC's '5 Second Rule' podcast in an episode focused on "Between a Rock and Hard Place: APIC's White Paper and Call to Action."

March 2022

• Terri Rebmann, Ph.D., special assistant to the president, director of the Institute for Biosecurity, and a Professor of Epidemiology in the Saint Louis University College for Public Health & Social Justice, was featured as a special guest on the APIC's '5 Second Rule' podcast in an episode focused on "Between a Rock and Hard Place: APIC's White Paper and Call to Action."

February 2022

• Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was quoted in a KCUR-FM 89.3 - NPR story about period poverty. Research she led on the topic also was highlighted.
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was quoted about the mask mandates in the St. Louis Region in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch article '‘Not out of the woods’: St. Louis region wrestles with mixed mask rules'
• Kathleen N. Gillespie, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) was interviewed on the KMOV-4 news story, "Travel nurses express frustration as states consider capping agency pay."
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was quoted in Missouri Independent about Missouri Health Director Donald Kauerauf's ouster from office. The News-Tribune and KSMU-FM 91.1 also ran the story. 
• Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was interviewed about the future of COVID mitigation in schools in St. Louis Magazine's article 'Could school nurses help lead the way as we transition into a 'new normal' with COVID-19?'

January 2022

• Research led by Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) about menstrual-hygiene needs for low-income women and girls in St. Louis was highlighted by Online Media Cafe, Content Media Solution and Media Bulletins. 
• Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) was interviewed on St. Louis Public Radio about menstrual-hygiene needs for low-income high school students.