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by Aishwarya Nagar, MPH candidate at the Brown School and President of the Global Health Student Advisory Committee It is no easy feat to distill the complexity and diversity of global health discourses into one week, but it is nevertheless accomplished year after year by Global Health Week. The 4th Annual Global Health Week (February 25 – March 1, 2019) presented an exhilarating opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community members across St

by Aishwarya Nagar, MPH ’19 (Global Health) and members of the competition cohort A group of Washington University in St. Louis students recently participated in the 2019 International Emory Global Health Case Competition organized by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia

“Not only would it repeal the marketplace plans coverage, which get most of the attention but yet cover only about 11.4 million people, but it would repeal a whole host of insurance reforms that affect many more millions of people, including protections against pre-existing condition exclusions,” said Timothy McBride, the Bernard Becker Professor at the Brown School and co-director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy. The changes in Obamacare include many that are not widely known to the public, and include changes in the way health care is paid for and delivered and how we increase our workforce for health care,” McBride said. The direct impact of repeal on the economy is hard to measure, he said, but on balance the changes are thought to bring about a negative impact on the health sector and dollars would move out of it and into other areas. The Congressional Budget Office projected that the ACA would reduce the deficit over time, so repealing it outright or having it declared unconstitutional would mean that the federal deficit would increase by a relatively small amount, which would have a small impact on the economy overall,” McBride said.

This proved to be a great set-up for the panel that followed with speakers from St. Louis and Chicago including Jorge Riopedre from Casa de Salud, Dr. Linda Rae Murray from University of Illinois in Chicago, Dr. Steven Wolff from Virginia Commonwealth University, Lindsay Manshack from Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Tim McBride from Washington University in St. Louis with Dr. Jason Purnell (also from the Brown School) moderating. The panelists were William Byansi from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Rodrigo Reis, from the Brown School, Dr. Andwele Jolly from Washington University School of Medicine, and Dr. Anne Sebert-Kuhlman from Saint Louis University with Dr. Bill Powderly, the Larry J. Shapiro Director of the Institute of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis moderating. Dean Mary McKay, Dr. Fred Ssewamala, and Dr. Ozge Sensoy from Brown School held a panel entitled, “Addressing Gaps in Child Behavioral Health Services and Research in Sub-Saharan Africa” at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s (CUGH) 10th annual conference in Chicago. Using the child mental health research undertaken by SMART (Strengthening Mental health And Research Training) Africa Center funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the objectives of the panel were to: 1) describe the interrelated strategies to ensure the scale-up, uptake, and sustainability of evidence-based practices (EBP) focused on child behavioral health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa; 2) examine the multi-stage collaborative process by which an EBP, namely 4Rs and 2Ss Family Strengthening intervention, has been revised and adapted to optimize fit to local contexts in Uganda and Ghana with intervention fidelity; and 3) present the prevalence rates of behavioral challenges among school-going children, utilizing a school-based sample in southwest Uganda.