Faculty News

Renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Judson Brewer MD, PhD (Jud), Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Brown University School of Public Health, has researched anxiety and the addictive behaviors it drives for two decades.

Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, has announced that Dr. Megan Ranney has agreed to serve as the School’s Associate Dean for Strategy and Innovation.

Dean Ashish Jha announces the appointment of Joseph Hogan, ScD, Carole and Lawrence Sirovich Professor of Public Health and Professor of Biostatistics, as Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, effective January 4, 2021.

Beginning his deanship amid a global public health emergency, Dr. Jha reflects on the challenges and opportunities exposed by COVID-19, and on the role of public health as we look toward the next pandemic.

We spoke to Brandon Marshall, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, about the opioid epidemic within the pandemic.

The School of Public Health Welcomes New Faculty Members in 2020

The latest School of Public Health faculty awards and recognition, Fall 2020.

New Leadership Roles in the School of Public Health

Read the following changes in the MPH and CTR leadership that will maintain the programs’ curricular excellence and distinctive approaches to education, while positioning the programs for future growth.

Professor Tidey will now be appointed as the Associate Dean for Research in the School of Public Health effective immediately.

Kim Gans, Ph.D., MPH, Adjunct Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, ​has been appointed the Director of Community Engagement in the School of Public Health effective immediately.

Community is the thread that runs through the teaching, research, and policy work of Professor Dulin, a medical sociologist studying how ‘resilience,’ or the ability to flourish in spite of adversity, may lead to better HIV-related outcomes.

SPH faculty Peter Monti was one of seven faculty members recognized by Brown University in its annual program to honor exceptional scholars across a wide variety of disciplines.

Joseph Braun, RN, MSPH, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology, has been appointed the Director of the Center for Environmental Health and Technology (CEHT) in the School of Public Health effective January 1, 2020. Dr. Braun succeeds Gregory Wellenius, Ph.D. who has served in this role since 2018.

Jennifer Tidey, Ph.D., Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior has been appointed as the Interim Associate Dean for Research in the School of Public Health.

Brown’s School of Public Health welcomes exciting new faculty for 2019

Kali Thomas focuses on identifying ways to improve the quality of life for older adults needing long-term services and support through applied health services research.

The latest School of Public Health faculty awards and recognition, Fall 2019

Public health faculty were honored in 2019 by Brown University’s Office of the Vice President for Research with competitive awards.

Theresa I. Shireman, PhD has been appointed Director of the Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research effective September 1, 2019.

Melissa Clark, PhD, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice has been appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

For 25 years, Elizabeth Burke Bryant has been at the helm of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, an organization dedicated to improving children’s lives by using information to change public policy.

The Latest School of Public Health Faculty Awards & Recognition, Spring 2019

We spoke with Abigail Harrison, MPH, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Joseph Braun, MSPH, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Epidemiology: Linking environmental exposures and children’s health.

The latest School of Public Health faculty awards and recognition, Fall 2018.

The Brown University School of Public Health welcomes exciting new faculty. Our newest members join over 250 faculty working across the School’s four academic departments and 13 research centers.

At the 2018 China Heart Congress (CHC), where over 10,000 cardiovascular disease researchers from around the world gather, Dr. Simin Liu, Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Surgery and Director of the Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health, was awarded an Honorary Adjunct Professorship at the Chinese National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

Mentoring global health leaders and teaching “Burden of Disease in Developing Countries” since 1993.

The Brown University School of Public Health welcomed exciting new faculty in 2017-18.

The latest School of Public Health faculty awards and recognition, Winter 2018.

Bess Marcus wants to help people make healthy choices.

Braun was one of 20 pioneering researchers and advocates who were nominated by a committee of senior leaders and luminaries in environmental public health

Marcus will begin her tenure as dean effective Nov. 1, 2017, succeeding Terrie Fox Wetle, who became the school’s inaugural dean in 2013.

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

Collaborative. Generative. Compassionate.

Latest faculty news, Spring 2017

Dr. Caroline Kuo, Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, has been appointed as the inaugural Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the SPH effective April 1, 2017.

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

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