World Wide Technology Hack-a-Thon – Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience

Six weeks ago, our school was invited along with 19 other St. Louis schools to attend the STEM Student Forum hosted by World Wide Technology. Our College Admissions Specialist – Monica Nickolai, and I attended the event with ten of our computer coding students. The students were tasked with creating a solution using technology to […]

A call for civility in in-civil times

This essay about police shootings of unarmed African American men was published in the St. Louis American on July 28, 2016.

Why is St. Louis losing so many babies?

Will Ross, MD, MPH, associate dean for diversity at Washington University School of Medicine, writes about St. Louis infant death rates.

Social determinants of health

In this podcast Dr. Ross discusses why social determinants of health are dictated largely by the distribution of wealth, power and resources in one’s environment.

Barbershop-based health education study

Washington University School of Medicine students Mary Masters, Elaine Khoong, Uzoh Ikpeama and Nancy Ye want to train barbers as peer educators to promote healthy lifestyle changes and to explain metabolic syndrome to barbershop clients.