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Exposure to PFAS has been linked to cardiometabolic disease risk factors like obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension.

Announcement of Professor Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP, as the School’s inaugural Academic Dean

The findings about the causes and characteristics of overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic may be used to inform policies that could lower death rates even after COVID-19 is under control.

Dr. Ashish K. Jha, Dean of the School of Public Health, responds to President Biden's announcements of September 9, 2021 with the policies needed to put the pandemic behind us.

Brown University's Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research and Meals on Wheels America have announced a collaboration on a three-year research initiative to investigate the most effective mode of meal delivery to support older adults’ ability to age in place in their homes and out of institutional settings.

Do the hospitals near you require staff vaccinations? Help us track hospitals’ decisions on vaccine mandates.

Can digital imaging data be the next biopsy for early detection?

Amy Nunn is collaborating with Black pastors to change assumptions and spread information on access to medical care.

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.