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The Health Equity Scholars program will train leaders in public health who can make a substantial difference in reducing health disparities and addressing systemic racism.

The latest School of Public Health faculty awards and recognition, Spring/Summer 2021.

Jud Brewer MD, Ph.D., associate professor of behavioral and social sciences, takes on coronavirus anxiety with a new book

Beginning with the 2021 spring semester, the School of Public Health offers a course to students at all levels that directly examines racial and ethnic health disparities.

Doctoral students work to empower immigrant Latinas and refugee women by listening to their stories and amplifying their lived experience

Introducing Myself and This Column

Dr. David C. Lewis ’57, a pioneer in the field of addiction science, died in December 2020 at the age of 85.

Professor Jennifer Nazareno welcomed a familiar face back to Brown.

Rhode Island’s first openly LGBTQ Black person elected to the State Senate.

The School of Public Health celebrated its graduates with a virtual ceremony in advance of Brown University’s Commencement Weekend

The Moi-Brown Partnership for HIV Biostatistics Training, a research training program administered by the Brown Global Health Initiative and directed by the School of Public Health's Department of Biostatistics, has been awarded $1.6 million in renewed federal funding from the NIH Fogarty International Center.

Facilities that serve single types of skilled nursing patients —and a payment system that differentiates and reimburses accordingly—would improve care for seniors and benefit providers, according to preeminent long-term care researcher Vincent Mor, professor of health services, policy and practice.

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.

In a recent study, researchers in Health Services, Policy and Practice, analyzed how COVID-19 has impacted Black and Hispanic populations living with kidney failure. They examined excess deaths—the difference between observed and expected deaths based on historical trends—to capture those deaths related to COVID-19 infection.

A project by Professors Alexander Sokolovsky and Jasjit Ahluwalia to compare heat-not-burn tobacco to e-cigarettes and to investigate their harm reduction potential among socioeconomically disadvantaged smokers has been awarded Research Seed Funding by Brown University.

The School of Public Health has launched a new student-led initiative that aims to publish original work by Brown undergraduates relevant to the field of public health.

A team of researchers in the Center for Gerontology & Healthcare Research has identified the factors that put nursing home residents at highest risk of dying from COVID-19. The study informs prevention practices and provides insight on ways to reduce fatality rates in this vulnerable population.

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.

MPH ’21, generalist track

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.

What the COVID-19 pandemic teaches us about the future of public health

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.

Remote Learning Brings Challenges, Opportunities, and a New Perspective

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.

A study led by Catherine Ettman, a doctoral student in Health Services Research, finds COVID-19 has led to a nearly a three-fold increase in depression.

Funded by the Research Seed Fund, University projects examine effects on nursing homes and medical care.

New Leadership Roles in the School of Public Health

This 20-minute documentary by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation explores the causes behind the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care facilities across the United States and features commentary by Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the School of Public Health, and Vincent Mor, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice.

Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute webinar series helps guide parents and caregivers through the pandemic.

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, a massive peaceful protest, reportedly the largest in Providence history, drew 10,000 marchers downtown on June 5th. Among the crowd that gathered at Kennedy Plaza and marched to the Rhode Island State House were many members of the Brown community.

The Latest News & Updates from School of Public Health Alumni

Janie, a Program Supervisor at the Kent County Health Department in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is applying her global public health training on slowing the spread of HIV, to her hometown health department where she works to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Today, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded a supplemental grant to Brown University School of Public Health to design an adverse event monitoring system to identify adverse health impacts after receipt of COVID-19 vaccination by elderly nursing home residents.

Rates of alcohol and cannabis use among adolescents are at a record high, so Brown researchers tried to address the issue.