The School hosted wellness activities throughout the week including yoga sessions, healthy snacks, and sessions by Wellness to Go on food psychology and the benefits of resistance bands. Special thanks to Emerging Energy Acupuncture for holding a relaxing mini treatment session and to Lynn Koerbel, MPH, from the Mindfulness Center who led us in a mindfulness session. We are also grateful to the Department of Biostatistics who hosted the Brown Statistics C.V. Starr Lecture featuring Nilanjan Chatterjee, PHD, from Johns Hopkins University, and to the many faculty members who provided book recommendations for our annual #publichealthreads social media campaign. These and many other events made for an informative, active, inspiring National Public Health at Brown University!
Check out the week’s highlights:
School of Public Health Immigration Working Group
The School of Public Health's Immigration Working Group presented R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, PhD, from the NYU Langone School of Medicine for “The Threat of Immigration Enforcement: Impact on Child Well Being.”
Barnes Lecture: Jon Kabat-Zinn
The 20th annual Barnes Lecture featured mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn on “The Public Health Roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction."