As the U.S. population ages, a study on the Older Americans Act Nutrition program reveals it delivers more than just food—recipients say it prevents nursing home placements, supports caregivers and provides a crucial daily social link.

Measles has been declared eliminated in the U.S. for 25 years, but a surge in cases is threatening that status. Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University, joined Humans in Public Health to break down the outbreak, the chaotic federal response and how her team's tracker is stepping in to provide reliable, life-saving data.

With a severe shortage of dentists across sub-Saharan Africa, the mOral Health course is training local community health workers to provide preventive care. The initiative, aimed at building a sustainable, grassroots workforce, marks the first time the WHO has formally endorsed an oral health resource in its nearly 80-year history.

With immigrant communities under heightened strain, Aidea Downie ’18, MA ’20 has earned a prestigious Royce Fellowship to study the support immigrant mothers and babies receive from culturally-aligned birth doulas.

Anne-Marie Feeney is a data analyst at the Stanford Cancer Institute who is applying skills from Brown's new Online Master’s Degree in Biostatistics and Health Data Science to her cutting-edge work in CAR-T cell therapy.

At the Brown University School of Public Health's 5th annual State of the School event, Dean Ashish Jha welcomed faculty, staff, students and alumni and highlighted Brown’s impact in education, research and policy. Despite the unprecedented moment we face, he assured the gathered crowd that “our school is strong.”

Professor Ellen McCreedy is a musician and gerontologist whose research harnesses the power of music to recall memories. Driven to give dementia sufferers, and their caregivers, a moment of having themselves back again, McCreedy joined Humans in Public Health to discuss her work, its challenges and the grandmother who first showed her music’s power to break through Alzheimer’s disease.

The Pandemic Center celebrated its inaugural cohort of Biosecurity Game Changers with a completion ceremony highlighting the far-reaching impact of the fellows’ work.

With private equity firms gobbling up health care facilities at a skyrocketing pace, researchers in the School of Public Health are working to uncover how rapid health care consolidation impacts patients, prices and physician practices.

Professor Ronald Aubert's course aims to help students understand the complexities of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, identifying the factors that result in such high prescription drug prices.

Five years after the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, School of Public Health experts look to Washington as they weigh in on where our biosurveillance tools and preparedness systems stand now: What’s changed, what hasn’t and what must be built to make us ready for the next pandemic?