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A celebratory weekend: Commencement and Reunion 2026
The School of Public Health's largest ever graduating class was honored at Brown University's 258th Commencement and Reunion Weekend, held May 22–24, 2026. This year’s festivities were a profound testament to the resilience, dedication and vibrance that define Brown's public health community.
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Brown University researchers used Medicare claims to track results of primary care practices after private equity firms acquired them, revealing surprising findings.
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Brown University researchers say an analytic method can exaggerate the causal link between amyloid reduction and cognitive benefits of new Alzheimer’s drugs.
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Brown University researchers found that for adolescents, exposure to violence is strongly associated with increased usage of cigarettes and e-cigarettes.
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Currently serving as interim dean, the accomplished physician and scholar will advance academic excellence, expand research and provide strategic direction for the school.
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The new sobriety
A growing wave of intentionality is reshaping our happy hours and weekend rituals—without the hangover. For Brown researchers, this shift reflects a growing body of evidence that drinking alcohol, even in moderation, comes with serious health risks.
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The Atlantic
The U.S. is winging this Ebola outbreak
Jennifer Nuzzo, professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, provided commentary in this article on the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak.
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Each week, Judson Brewer, professor of behavioral and social sciences and the director of research and innovation at Brown’s Mindfulness Center, leads a group of students and researchers in mindfulness exercises while running up Providence’s Jenckes Street hill.
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The New York Times
Firing cancer screening experts will not make us healthy again
This opinion column was co-authored by Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice Michael Silverstein, who served as the chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
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Master’s
Through a balanced emphasis on research and hands-on practice, our master’s programs equip public health scholars with the skills to drive policy change and make a positive impact on the well-being of communities, both locally and globally.
Join us in Providence for a rigorous training program that will teach you to conduct research, bring about policy change, and positively affect the health of populations in Rhode Island and beyond.
Brown's Accelerated MPH for Clinicians is a fast-paced, in-person program designed to deliver an academically rigorous and comprehensive public health education to professionals with prior medical or clinical health care education.
Become a future public health leader in our flexible, case-based online Master of Public Health program.
We educate students to become statisticians trained to work in modern data science environments with expertise in theory and methods of statistical inference and modeling, knowledge and experience with tools of data science, and a well-developed skill set in computer programming, strong communication skills and experience working collaboratively.
At the intersection of data and health lies a highly dynamic and rapidly expanding field in need of skilled leaders—biostatistics. Explore our Online Master of Science (Sc.M.) in Biostatistics, Health Data Science Concentration.
Doctoral
The Brown University School of Public Health’s rigorous doctoral training involves active partnerships with faculty mentors and the execution of innovative research. Full funding is guaranteed, including tuition, healthcare and stipend, for up to five years of graduate study.
This doctoral program offers training in research methods to advance knowledge of issues central to the improvement of population health by focusing on organizational characteristics of health care delivery systems, providers and economic forces that shape consumer and provider behavior, as well as the policy environment in which these relationships exist.
This program provides the training necessary to carry out independent research in theory, methodology and application of statistics to important problems in biomedical research, including research biology, public health and clinical medicine.
Offered by the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, his degree program allows students to learn to employ behavioral and social science theory and methods to understand and address contemporary health problems.
We prepare students to become leading, independent investigators. Our graduates excel in academia, industry, government and public health practice.
Dual Degrees
The School of Public Health offers several opportunities for highly-motivated students to complete dual degree programs at an accelerated pace.
Emphasizing a learning-by-doing approach, this rigorous program offers highly-qualified applicants the opportunity to gain training in public health and public policy to prepare them to address critical health policy issues in the United States and throughout the world.
The 5-year integrated Undergraduate/MPH (UG/MPH) degree is a rigorous program in professional public health education open to Brown undergraduates of any concentration.
The School of Public Health offers a specialized master’s program in Biostatistics for Brown undergraduates looking to complete a fifth year of study.
Why Study Public Health at Brown?
Home to four academic departments and a growing number of cutting-edge research centers, Brown's School of Public Health has earned its place among the top 10 recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Why Brown?Groundbreaking Research
With hundreds of annual peer-reviewed publications and a robust portfolio of federal grants, our researchers contribute invaluable knowledge to the scientific community, influencing policies and practices that shape public health.
Real World Impact
Standing at the forefront of today's most important public health issues, Brown is spearheading vital initiatives that will shape the future of the field.
Our Pandemic Center is working to stop pandemics, other biological emergencies, and the harms they pose to health, peace, security, and prosperity.
Our People, Place & Health Collective works directly and collaboratively with members of the community, advocates, and policymakers to conduct substance use research that pairs rigorous epidemiological methods with broad, accessible communication.
Our Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research unravels the intricate connections between insurance design, market structures and policy dynamics to pave the way for better patient outcomes and reduced spending.