The School of Public Health community gathered to celebrate community members’ achievements in research, teaching and innovation.

What happens when private equity firms buy hospitals and doctor’s offices?

A complementary approach called Counter-Attitudinal Advocacy has been found to help young adults reduce the harms related to heavy drinking by shifting how they think—not how much they drink.

Our Community-Academic Research Partnership Fund is powering collaborative, community-centered projects that will positively impact public health and strengthen local partnerships.

Professor Jennifer Sacheck, new chair of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, brought decades of diet and physical activity expertise to Brown University when she joined the School of Public Health last month. What inspired Professor Sacheck's public health journey and what are her plans? We sat down with her to find out.

On the 5th anniversary of COVID-19’s arrival, Professor Jennifer Nuzzo delivered a Presidential Faculty Award lecture on the U.S. response to COVID, the infectious disease threats we face today and the steps needed to prepare for the public health emergencies of tomorrow.

Fusing public health with environmental science, new faculty at Brown are pioneering methods that reveal how climate change is threatening our health. Together, they’re finding solutions.

Firearms are dangerous, but their ammunition holds a silent threat: dangerously high levels of lead. Brown doctoral student Christian Hoover teams up with Professor Joseph Braun to examine the connection between guns and elevated lead levels in America’s children and adults.

What is the cost of homelessness in Rhode Island? Do we measure it in dollars, hours, square footage? Or is it measured by sleepless nights, persistent coughs, uncertain futures? The reasons Rhode Islanders remain unhoused are varied, but the results are the same: marginalization and the fight to keep a stable footing.