01/15- The team of Rania Mahrous, Chesna Panicker, and Yesha Patel, one of the three SLU teams to compete, won the competition while facing this year’s case topic of “Addressing Access to Care from a Rural Economic Development Perspective.”

01/13- The University City Board of Education announced Jan. 12, that Natalie Parks, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit Award by Board members.

01/11- This Summer, Hayes completed an internship at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. While at Cardinal Glennon, Hayes worked as an intern for the ‘Incident Command System.’ During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cardinal Glennon has used their ‘Incident Command Center’ to address hospital operations.

01/07- This summer, Sandcork completed an internship at the St. Charles County Department of Public Health (DPH) in St. Charles County, Missouri. While at St. Charles County DPH, Sandcork worked as a COVID-19 Epidemiology intern focusing on prevention in the general population and school aged population of St. Charles County, Missouri.

12/18- Rhonda BeLue, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy in Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice, will lead the advisory board to the City of St. Louis Department of Health.

12/14- Health Management & Policy alumni, graduates, faculty and staff are on the move and making an impact in the healthcare arena.

12/01- Saint Louis University is partnering with Xavier University to offer a top-ranked Master of Social Work (MSW) degree through SLU’s School of Social Work in the College for Public Health and Social Justice, beginning in the Fall 2021 semester.

11/30- Dr. Michael Mancini, Dr. Brandy Maynard and Dr. Shannon Cooper-Sadlo have been named the recipients of the 2020 James H. Korn Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award for their contributions to research, teaching and learning.

11/24- Saint Louis University students and faculty mentors recently collaborated on a geriatric-based case competition that focused on development of a care plan for an older patient with multiple, chronic health challenges, including COVID-19.

11/23- Utilizing $600,000 of CARES Act funding, SLU’s College for Public Health and Social Justice (CPHSJ) is expanding its existing partnership with the County Department of Public Health in response to the public health emergency.

11/20- Supported by the Doerr Center for Social Justice, doctoral candidate Nathaniel Dell, AM, MSW, LCSW and Brandy Maynard, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, co-led a photovoice study at Places for People, Inc, a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center in St. Louis where Dell serves as Director of Research and Evaluation.

11/16- After more than 25 years working her way through the ranks of the health care industry, Tracy Omer (MHA 2015) has achieved a new milestone: System Manager of Continuous Improvement at SSM Health, a Catholic, not-for-profit health system in the Midwest.

11/16- Since the onset of the COVID-19 health pandemic, many primary care offices have been searching for better ways to ensure consistent communication with their patients. COVID-19 related factors have caused staffing shortages at many offices, hindering standardized communication across call centers.

11/03- What happens to hospice patients who are discharged from care after their condition stabilizes? A new study from Saint Louis University seeks to evaluate the health and quality of life outcomes for patients and caregivers following live discharge from hospice care.

10/29- SLU’s Ph.D. in Public Health Studies was ranked at No. 18 out of 25 Best Community Health Promotion and Education doctorates for 2021.

10/19- On Thursday, Oct. 15, over 220 public health and social justice students, faculty and staff promoted and received the influenza vaccine as the College for Public Health and Social Justice strives for 100 percent flu vaccination.

09/21- On August 29th, 2020, a student organizing committee hosted a students-for-students ‘COVID-Decoded’ webinar. Anna Brende (lead organizer) and Jessica Leuthauser (logistics) (MSW ‘20) were two of the thirteen student members of this committee. The committee selected the topics, invited speakers, created the website, marketed, hosted and evaluated the webinar. Dr. John Morley, Dr. Shannon Cooper-Sadlo, Dr. Marla Berg-Weger, volunteers from the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Programs and five other experts also assisted in making this event a success.

09/21- Kwamane Liddell, JD, MHA, BSN, graduated from Saint Louis University’s College of Public Health and Social Justice in 2019 with a Master of Health Administration. In the short time since Liddell graduated, he founded DispatchCare, a company that combines technology and compassion to make healthcare safer, more affordable, and accessible to patients across the globe.

09/18- A new institute at Saint Louis University has been established to help eliminate disparities caused by systemic oppression and to promote healing. The Institute for Healing Justice and Equity (IHJE) will begin its groundbreaking work in St. Louis with a founding investment by SLU of more than $1.7 million.

09/09- A professor in the College for Public Health and Social Justice and a member of Saint Louis University’s Class of 2024 have been named to St. Louis Magazine’s list of 35 St. Louisians working to build equity change in the region.

09/08- A team of researchers led by Kenton Johnston, Ph.D., an associate professor of health management and policy at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice, conducted a study to investigate how outpatient clinicians that treated disproportionately high caseloads of socially at-risk Medicare patients (safety-net clinicians) performed under Medicare’s new mandatory Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).

09/08- A team of researchers led by Kenton Johnston, Ph.D., an associate professor of health management and policy at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice, conducted a study investigating the association between health system affiliations of clinicians and their performance scores and payments under Medicare value-based reimbursement.

08/21- Natalie Parks, Ph.D. The School of Social Work in the College for Public Health and Social Justice has named Natalie Parks, Ph.D., as its new program director for the school’s Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Program. Parks’s appointment began prior to the start of the 2020-2021 school year.

08/19- Ibram X. Kendi, Ph.D., the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the author of “How to Be an Anti-Racist,” will headline the 2020 Emmett J. and Mary Martha Doerr Center for Social Justice Education and Research lecture on Thursday, Sept. 10.

07/15- The College for Public Health & Social Justice is hosting a summer long educational webinar series that highlights many relevant and current topics and how it applies to the population. From June 30th through August 6th, CPHSJ faculty, community leaders and other guest speakers will be hosting hour-long webinars.

07/13- On the frontlines of the opioid epidemic in our community, Saint Louis University MPH candidate Brittani Nelson has created and is leading the Community Narcan® Distribution Program through the Saint Louis County Department of Public Health (DPH).

06/26- Saint Louis University has been named a Center of Excellence for Maternal and Child Health Education, Science and Practice. The designation comes from a new, five-year $1.735 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

06/04- The health crisis our world is facing today is exactly the kind of problem Saint Louis University alumnus Chris Jenkins, Ph.D. has been preparing to help solve.

05/27- The coronavirus pandemic has affected many lives and that is no different for those in the St. Louis community. Fortunately, many students from Saint Louis University (SLU) have been doing their part to help those that need it most and stop the spread of COVID-19.

05/22- The COVID-19 pandemic had just started to affect the everyday lives of those in the United States when MSW student Mimi Termos fell ill.