SLU Public Health and Social Justice

10/07/2026

Happy Birthday, Billiken!

The Billiken is a mythical creature that represents things as they ought to be, and Saint Louis University is the only University to claim the Billiken as its mascot. On Oct. 6, 1908, the patent was filed for the image that later inspired Saint Louis University's mascot.

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10/06/2026

🎙️ New Episode Alert! In this episode of Public Health: Unscripted, we sit down with Karina Navarro, a Master of Health Administration student at Saint Louis University, to discuss her journey into healthcare leadership. Karina shares her internship experience with Mercy Hospital and discusses:

🌟 Finding your passion and thriving in a new field.
🏫 How graduate school prepares you for real-world healthcare administration.
📈 Elevating the patient experience through innovative process improvements.

🎧 Listen now to "MHA in Action: Working in Primary Care and Finding Your Career Path" on your favorite streaming platform!

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10/05/2026

Join us for the MPH Development Series: Networking & Professional Branding on October 7, 2026, at noon CST. Learn techniques and tips to build connections, strengthen your confidence, and grow your professional network.

Register: https://loom.ly/Rb-cqfA

10/02/2026

Health Management student Diya Patel presented a poster at the Saint Louis University Institute for Drug and Biotherapeutic Innovation (SLU-IDBI) titled "Using Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase to Target Pyrimidine Synthesis to Resensitize Antibiotic-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii."

Patel used a computer software called Schrödinger Maestro to target a critical drug resistant bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii also known as A. baumannii by using a protein Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH). They hypothesized that DHODH could be used as a potential therapeutic target because it is an essential, rate-limiting enzyme in de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis, a pathway vital for bacterial survival, and contains an active site that allows for the design of selective inhibitors capable of overcoming multidrug resistance without host cross-reactivity.

10/01/2026

The Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice is committed to helping strengthen communities in St. Louis and around the world by finding innovative and collaborative solutions for complex health problems. And those solutions start with you.

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09/29/2026

Nancy L. Weaver, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Equity), Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH (Behavioral Science and Health Equity), Ricardo J. Wray, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Equity), Kenan Li, Ph.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), SangNam Ahn, Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy), Ananya Singla, (Public Health and Social Justice student), and Ibraheem Jawadi (Public Health and Social Justice student) featured in collection of professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff members, and students.

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09/25/2026

The Saint Louis University Center for Environmental Education & Training’s (CEET) Brownfields Environmental Remediation Job Training Program recently graduated its newest cohort of 12 students with the industry-recognized certifications needed to pursue high-growth careers in environmental cleanup, hazardous-waste operations, and worker safety.

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The Saint Louis University Center for Environmental Education & Training’s (CEET) Brownfields Environmental Remediation Job Training Program recently graduated its newest cohort of 12 students with the industry-recognized certifications needed to pursue high-growth careers in environmental cleanup...

09/24/2026

Interested in earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in five years? Learn about CPHSJ accelerated programs this Friday, Sept. 25, from 2–2:50 p.m. in Room 290 of the Wool Center.

Attendance is mandatory for juniors planning to apply this fall and recommended for interested sophomores and first-year students.

More info: https://loom.ly/rKsFz_A

09/22/2026

Lily McMorrow has earned an NIH LAUNCH Fellowship to advance cancer research at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala. McMorrow listed CPHSJ's Anne Sebert-Kuhlmann, Ph.D. as one of the mentors who provided intellectual guidance as she developed her research focus. Highlighting the role of public health in interdisciplinary training by virtue of taking Dr. Sebert-Kuhlmann's global health & implementation science course as an elective.

“Saint Louis University’s mission calls us to be people in service of others, to recognize the dignity of every person and to work towards a more just world,” McMorrow said. “For me, that mission has never felt abstract. It is the reason I am drawn to global health, and it is what drives me to study the ways in which structural and systemic forces: poverty, political instability, the withdrawal of international funding, shape whether a woman in Uganda lives or dies from a preventable cancer.”

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Lily McMorrow has earned an NIH LAUNCH Fellowship to advance cancer research at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala. McMorrow, a fifth-year M.D./Ph.D. student at Saint Louis University, brings her research to an international stage, exploring the impact of international funding disruptions on cer...

09/22/2026

What does it take to build a meaningful career in public health? In this episode, second-year M.P.H. student Meghan Kelley shares her journey, internship insights, presentation tips, favorite St. Louis spots, and how SLU is shaping her future in public health.

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