​COVID-19 Article and Media Archive 

Brown School faculty, staff, students and alumni have been producing research, analysis and commentary regarding COVID-19 since the beginning of  the outbreak. Their expertise has been featured in various  articles and media outlets. 

November - December 2020

• Pandemic Puts All Eyes on Public Health – Ross Brownson, Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor
• The Art of Protest – De Nichols, BFA ’10, MSW ‘14
• Brown School Initiative Recruits, Trains Volunteers to Monitor Polls -  Gena McClendon, director of the Center for Social Development’s Voter Access and Engagement Initiative, and Cynthia D. Williams, assistant dean of the Office of Community Partnerships
• Brown School Celebrates Jack A. Kirkland's 50 Years of Teaching
• Hillman Hall's Flexibility Key to Reopening During Pandemic
• Buder Center Offers Storytelling Project, Health Seminar in Response to Pandemic - Kellie Thompson, director, Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies
  
• HCRL Awarded Two Grants to Address Covid-19 Disparities - Matt Kreuter, Kahn Family Professor of Public Health at the Brown School; Charlene Cabernay, research assistant professor
• Researchers Work with Parents, Teachers on COVID Testing to Enable Children with Disabilities to Safely Return to School - Nancy Mueller, director of the Brown School Evaluation Center; Charlene Caburnay, research assistant professor and co-director of the Health Communication Research Laboratory; Virginia McKay, research assistant professor; and Byron Powell, assistant professor.
• Information on evictions from the FOCUS-19 project, led by Professor Matt Kreuter, was quoted in an article by CNBC.
• Gena McClendon, director of the Center for Social Development’s Voter Access and Engagement Initiative, was quoted in a WESA story on Black voters and early voting in Pittsburgh.
• Associate Professor Darrell Hudson was quoted extensively in the Washington Post article on racism's hidden toll.
  
• Housing Inequality Gets Worse as the COVID-19 Pandemic is Prolonged, by Professor Michal Grinstein-Weiss.
  

September - October 2020

• Some States May Have Missed Optimal Timing to Enact Virus Mitigation Efforts, Study Finds - Professsors Shenyang Guo and Tim McBride, Assistant Professor Ruopeng An, PhD student Yuanyuan Yang, and Danlin Yu, professor at Montclair State University.
  
• Food Insecurity and Schools during the Pandemic - Gabriella McLoughlin, postdoctoral research associate, Prevention Research Center.
• 2-1-1 Helping School Kids in Philly Get Internet at Home from Professor Matt Kreuter and his team at Focus-19.
• MSW Madelyn Brandt was interviewed by KSDK on her decision to resign as an election judge in St. Charles County in reaction to mask-wearing guidance shared with poll workers.
• Gena Gunn McClendon, PhD and director of Voter Access and Engagement initiative at the Center for Social Development (CSD) was interviewed by Joe Madison on voter suppression in low-income neighborhoods.

July - August 2020

• Religion May Offer Protective Role For Black Adolescent Boys Who Experience Police Abuse examines a recent study co-authored by PhD students Ashley Jackson, Helen Robinson and Phylicia Allen; Jewel Stafford, Field Education Manager and Project Director; and Associate Professor Sheretta Butler-Barnes.
• Resilience in the Face of the Pandemic: COVID Weighs Unevenly Across Racial Lines - Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor; Leo Pasolvsky, Brookings Senior Fellow and Research Director; Stephen Roll, research assistant professor; Yung Chun, data analyst; and Kwado Frimpong, senior research analyst.
• Brown School's Race and Opportunity Lab Recommends Specific Policing Reforms - release of a report co-authored by Robert O. Motley Jr., the Race and Opportunity Lab manager and a doctoral student at the Brown School; Alyssa Finner, ROL community engagement manager; Marah Walker, ROL graduate research assistant; and Sean Joe,  Benjamin Youngdahl Professor of Social Development.
• Butler-Barnes Awarded Seed Grant to Study Parental Messaging About Race, focused on rare research by Associate Professor Sheretta Butler-Barnes.
• Medicaid Expansion in Missouri: Policy Briefs and Discussion Series that examines the issues surrounding the expansion vote on August 4.
• COVID-19 Demonstrates Why Wealth Matters by Professor Michal Grinstein-Weiss, director of the Social Policy Institute at Washington University.
• Gunn McClendon Fights Voter Suppression explores the work of McClendon and her team at the Center for Social Development to ensure equal voting access in the St. Louis region.
• Reimaging Public Health in the Aftermath of COVID-19, featuring Professor Ross Brownson.
• Associate Professor Michal Grinstein-Weiss published an op-ed on Medicaid expansion in the Missouri Times.
• Associate Professor Kim Johnson spoke to St. Louis on the Air about how cancer outcomes for young people are affected by their health insurance type and coverage.

June 2020

• New Study Examines Black Male Youth Reactions to Social Media Videos of Community Violence, featuring research by PhD student and lead author Robert Motley, manager of the Race and Opportunity Lab in the Center for Social Development.
  
• Brown School Statement in Response to the Death of George Floyd - Dean Mary McKay and Vetta Sanders Thompson, Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.
  
• Suppression of COVID-19 Spread is Possible, Suggests New Model - Ross Hammond, Betty Bofinger Brown Associate Professor at the Brown School and collaborator on the TRACE (Testing Responses through Agent-based Computational Epidemiology) model.
  
• New Resource Helps Communities Respond Effectively to COVID-19 - Research Assistant Professor Abigail Barker, faculty lead for data and methods at the Center for Health Economics and Policy at the Institute for Public Health.
  
• A COVID-19 Level Overreaction Is Needed for Substance Use Disorder Treatment: The Future Is Mobile - Associate Professor David Patterson Silverwolf, director of the Community Academic Partnership on Addiction (CAPA) and chief research officer at the CAPA Clinic.
  
• Assistant Professor Ruopeng An's research on how child obesity may spike during COVID-19 was covered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and U.S. News and World Report.
  
• Professor Nancy Morrow-Howell published an op-ed on ageism during COVID-19 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
• Robert Motley, PhD candidate and manager of the Race and Opportunity Lab, was quoted in an article on how sharing violent media of black people being hurt can affect their mental health by Well and Good.
• Associate Professor Jason Purnell was quoted in a piece by the Washington Post on how the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has become more mainstream.
  

• Chinese Community Steps Up to Provide Masks for the Brown School, featuring Global Programs Manager Linyun Fu, Assistant Professor Ruopeng An and Brown School students 
• High Participation in Social Distancing Would Decrease Coronavirus Impact in Rural Missouri,  CHEP Policy Report featuring work by Professro Tim McBride and Research Assistant Professor Abby Barker 
• Buder Scholars Tell Stories and Share Resources to Keep the Pow Wow Commitment, featuring Buder Center Director Kellie Thompson and the work of Buder students 
• WashU Expert piece: Navajo Nation Needs Support, perspective from Buder Center’s Wynette Whitegoat 
• Lack of Physical Activity During COVID-19 May Fuel Childhood Obesity, featuring publication by Assistant Professor Ruopeng An
• Perspective: Being a Student from China in the Time of COVID-19,  by Zizi Xu, MSW and Grace Ruqing Cao, MSW/MPH
• Who's an 'Essential Worker'? #Still Compromising Ep. 3 by by Brown School PhD alumni Karishma Furtado, Research and Data Catalyst with Forward Through Ferguson and Alexandra Morshed, Prevention Research Center Postdoctoral Researcher. 
• Lissa Johnson, associate director of the Center for Social Development, was quoted in a piece for NPR's Marketplace on financial stability and COVID-19. 
• Professor Tim McBride spoke to the International Business Times about how the pandemic is affecting jobless numbers in the U.S. He discussed the need to balance public health and livelihoods to foster a strong recovery in an article by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 
• Professor Fred Ssewamala co-authored an article for The New Vision that examined how efforts to stop COVID-19 in Uganda may negatively affect other public health crises, such as HIV prevention efforts.
• Associate Professor Darrell Hudson was quoted on how segregation and stress affect the spread of COVID-19 among African Americans in a piece by WTSP in Tampa Bay, Florida. 
• Professor Ross Brownson cautions against states reopening despite failing to meet White House guidelines coronavirus in a recent Atlantic article. 
• In an article in USA Today, Associate Professor Lindsay Stark talked about women shouldering a greater share of parenting responsibilities during the pandemic. 
• Professor Matt Kreuter spoke to the Charlotte Observer about the outbreak of coronavirus in meat processing plants. He and his team continue to measure the daily social impact of the pandemic, utilizing national  2-1-1 call data, as part of Focus-19.  
• Associate Professors Patrick Fowler and Jason Purnell laid out a plan to address homeless in the region, exacerbated by the coronavirus epidemic, in an op-ed for the St. Louis American.
• Associate Professor Alexis Duncan was quoted by the Associated Press on the importance of starting with low-risk activities as Missouri lifts stay-at-home orders. 
• Professor Melissa Jonson-Reed discussed how the pandemic has affected reports of child abuse and neglect, both self-reported and observed by mandated reporters, in a recent CNN article. 
• STAT News published a piece by Associate Professor David Patterson Silver Wolf that stresses the importance of real-time data for the opioid epidemic, as is currently available for COVID-19 cases. 
• Professor Sean Joe wrote the article, “U.S. Needs a Behavioral Health ‘CARES’ Act Now – Here’s What it Must Include,” on the Social Work Today website.
• Director Gary Parker and Associate Director Atia Thurman of the Clark-Fox Policy Institute had an op-ed, “Fragile Early Childhood Education System at Greater Risk,” published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 

April 2020

• Student Perspective: The Transition to Online Learning, featuring MSW/MPH student Madison Lands 
• The Pandemic's Impact on Older Adults, featuring a publication by Professor Nancy Morrow-Howell
• Haiti Public Health Students Rise to Support COVID-19 Response
• Decrease in Abuse Hotline Calls Not a Good Sign
• Being an MPH Student in the Midst of a Pandemic
• Brown School Alumni Share Work, Concerns During Pandemic
• We Don’t Need a Map to Tell Us Who COVID-19 Hits the Hardest in St. Louis, op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and also on Brookings.edu, by Professor Michal Grinstein-Weiss and Program Manager Brinda Gupta.  
• Assistant Professor Christine Ekenga quoted on racial disparities in Coronavirus deaths in ABC6 Columbus, OH story. 
• Professor Ross Brownson interviewed on NPR  regarding face mask guidelines. 
• A Political Tipping Point for Health Equity in St. Louis by Cora Faith Walker, MPH '10. 
• Still Compromising: The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 in St. Louis by Brown School PhD alumni Karishma Furtado, Research and Data Catalyst with Forward Through Ferguson and Alexandra Morshed, Prevention Research Center Postdoctoral Researcher.