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DO YOU OR DOES SOMEONE YOU KNOW . . .
. . . drink more than intended?
. . . spend a lot of time drinking or recovering from hangovers?
. . . try to cut down or stop drinking but fail?

The latest news & updates from School of Public Health alumni

Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Director of Doctoral Studies in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Senior Behavior Change Analyst, Mad*Pow

Brown School of Public Health faculty in the media

Collaborative. Generative. Compassionate.

The School of Public Health’s inaugural Black History Month Lecture: Mindy Fullilove

Meet Mark Treat, President of Nalari Health and School of Public Health Community Advisory Board member

Latest faculty news, Spring 2017

The past several decades have been characterized by an evolution of the public health problems facing society.

The Brown University Corporation has appointed two Public Health faculty members to named professorships.

This year marked the development of Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University. The plan, a collaborative effort by administrators, faculty, and students across campus, identified strategies and actions to make Brown a more diverse and inclusive community.

The School of Public Health is fortunate to have several new faculty members in the fold whose research interests run the gamut from behavioral interventions to reduce risk among sexual minorities, to cancer epidemiology data, to alcohol use disorders, to HIV prevention and pharmacoepidemiology. Take a moment to learn how they are working to improve population health.

Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences,
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Strategic Initiative Officer, Rhode Island Foundation

Cape Town is one of Africa’s wealthiest cities, yet it is also home to extreme poverty. Three students from the School of Public Health focus their research on this area, analyzing public health issues.

The latest School of Public Health faculty awards and recognition, Fall 2016.

One hundred forty-two degrees were awarded in Public Health fields during Commencement 2016.

Whether it’s providing a source for fresh fruits and vegetables, encouraging physical activity in school-aged children, or expanding access to HIV and Hepatitis C testing, the ultimate goal of all the Rhode Island Public Health Institute’s programs is to eliminate health disparities, in Rhode Island and beyond.

November is National Entrepreneurship Month, and various departments at Brown, including the School of Public Health, are partnering with the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship to produce a series of events across campus to engage, inspire, and empower the Brown and local community.

Joshua Sharfstein was keynote speaker at Bridging Health Disparities to Address the Opioid Epidemic, a conference jointly sponsored by the Brown University School of Public Health and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Established in 1969, The Providence Center is a community resource that provides mental health and substance use services to Rhode Island.

The latest news & updates from School of Public Health alumni

Two longtime faculty retire from the School of Public Health

Ashley Lowery is a second year Master’s student in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health.

The School of Public Health is fortunate to have several new faculty members in the fold whose research interests run the gamut from behavioral interventions to reduce risk among racial, sexual and gender minorities, to weight-related disorders, to longitudinal mediation analysis, to HIV prevention and pharmacoeconomics. Take a moment to learn how they are working to improve population health.

Drs. Jody Rich, Traci Green, and Brandon Marshall, were co-authors of a report that calls for a four-pronged strategy to address the Opioid crises.

The disturbing and persistent disparities in health between black and white people in the United States arise from a complex mix of socioeconomic disadvantages that should be addressed early in life, said President Christina Paxson in delivering the 2015 Levinger Lecture.

With a gift of $12.5 million from the family of retired Hasbro Chairman and CEO Alan Hassenfeld, Brown will establish the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute to accelerate progress on the urgent health needs of the smallest state’s smallest residents.

Alumnus Seth F. Berkley, MD’78 MD’81, epidemiologist and CEO of Gavi, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, visited Brown University on February 25, 2015 to deliver a presentation titled “Going to scale: delivering vaccines to the world’s poorest countries.”

Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

School of Public Health scientists have mapped the similarities and the differences in the brain between the two different kinds of extroverts: “agentic” go-getters and “affiliative” people persons.

Julia Nagle MPH’16 talks to Sarah Davey about life in the MPH program at Brown.

With a new five-year, $2.5-million grant from the Foundation for Physical Therapy, Brown University will lead a multi-institution center to train physical therapy health services researchers and to seed new studies.

Dr. Simin Liu is among the first scientists funded by the American Heart Association to work on its new Cardiovascular Genome-Phenome initiative. He will now have access to three major resources for a deep investigation of gene-diet interactions in cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes across different ethnic groups.