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The Boston Globe

With COVID on the rise again, here’s a guide to staying safe in 2023

Given the late summer wave of COVID infections, you might have questions about how best to protect yourself and others. In The Boston Globe, Professor Jennifer Nuzzo tackles one of the most pressing issues: When should you get your next shot?
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The Boston Globe

With a few basic steps, most of us can finally ignore COVID

With an updated vaccine, readily available testing, and successful treatments, Dean Ashish Jha writes that COVID-19 isn't the disruptive force that it once was: "The virus no longer needs to reorder our lives and our priorities."
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STAT

AI can’t replicate this key part of practicing medicine

"While there are areas within medicine ripe for the assistance of AI, any assertion that it will replace health care providers or make our roles less important is pure hyperbole," writes Dr. Craig Spencer for STAT.
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News from SPH

Faculty in Focus: Charting a New Course

After over 20 years as a police officer, Professor Brandon del Pozo is using his experience to help begin the long process of turning U.S. law enforcement toward the goals of public health.
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The Atlantic

How to Lose a Century of Progress

Professor Craig Spencer writes that Americans have been too quick to condemn the field of public health, overlooking its massive achievements in the 1900s and also during the recent pandemic.
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News from SPH

The Changing Face of Hospice Care

Professor Joan Teno highlights the urgent need for oversight and integrity reforms in a changing, increasingly profit-driven industry.
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News from SPH

Health Equity Scholars and Mentors Gather at Sunnylands

The historic California estate was the backdrop for a special HES retreat where students, mentors and experts gathered in supportive community, dedicated to improving the world through their work.
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News from SPH

Clean Air Simplified

A study led by Professor Joseph Braun found that inexpensive, easy-to-assemble Corsi-Rosenthal boxes effectively filter out indoor air pollutants.
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News from Brown

After leading federal COVID-19 response, Dr. Ashish Jha to resume role as dean of Brown’s School of Public Health

Jha has served for 14 months as White House COVID-19 response coordinator and will resume leadership of the School of Public Health on July 1 with a focus on transforming public health education, research and practice.
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News from Brown

Fatal overdoses increase after police seize drugs, study finds

A new study highlights an unintended consequence of interventions to combat the country’s illicit opioid epidemic, emphasizing the need to include harm reduction strategies as part of a comprehensive response.
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News from SPH

Farewell, Fox

The School of Public Health honors founding dean Terrie ‘Fox’ Wetle’s decades of service to Brown with a retirement celebration.
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News from SPH

Fond Farewell: Akilah Dulin Departs Brown for Tulane

After more than a decade at Brown, Akilah Dulin, associate professor of behavioral and social sciences, has accepted the role of chair of the Department of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences at Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
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Popular Science

The deadliest viruses in human history, from COVID to smallpox

Where does COVID-19 fall among the deadliest viruses of all time? Professor Jennifer Nuzzo breaks down the ways we measure the danger of a virus, as well as the factors that made COVID different from previous outbreaks.
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News from SPH

Ever True: Megan Ranney Departs Brown for Yale

Megan Ranney MD, MPH’10, an innovative public health leader, educator, physician and a leading voice on urgent health issues, will depart Brown after two decades to serve as the dean of Yale’s public health school.
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News from SPH

Empowering Families, Changing Lives

The Elizabeth Burke Bryant Hero Award recognizes individuals who have had a profound influence on the well-being of children and families in Rhode Island.
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News from SPH

Congratulations to the 2023 Nora Kahn Piore Award Winners

The award is made annually to support undergraduate, graduate, and medical students undertaking research in health services, with a focus on health status and access to health care by poor and underserved populations.
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News from SPH

Celebrating the 2023 Dean’s Awards

To recognize excellence among its students, staff and faculty, the Brown SPH community gathered together to cheer and congratulate its members.
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