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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.

A Brown University School of Public Health biostatistician and an infectious disease specialist have received a $3.5-million grant to develop new ways to use data from patient health records to optimize effectiveness of HIV treatment where resources are limited, such as in the developing world. They will work with an HIV care program in Kenya that provides healthcare to more than 130,000 patients a year.

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.