Strategic Initiative Officer, Rhode Island Foundation You were recently appointed Strategic Initiative Officer at the Rhode Island Foundation. Tell us about the foundation and the work you do. The Rhode Island Foundation is a philanthropic organization that works to improve the quality of life in Rhode Island. We are a community foundation, meaning our funds […]
Julia Nagle MPH '16
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Learn By Doing
Global health issues are at the forefront of public health discourse. Today, despite the many advances in global health medicine, policy, and intervention, countries around the world are suffering from numerous health problems. The HIV/AIDS epidemic, the health impact of global warming, the threat of global pandemic disease, women’s health, obesity, and malnutrition are just […]
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Student Profile: Ashley Lowery
Ashley Lowery always had a passion for health, but didn’t always know that public health was the right choice for her. As an undergraduate student at Jackson State University she studied psychology and was drawn to drug and alcohol abuse related issues. An internship at Washington University in St. Louis combining psychiatry with public health […]
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The Providence Center: Healthy minds ages 1-89
Dr. Dale Klatzker is President and CEO of The Providence Center, a community resource that provides mental health and substance use services to Rhode Island.
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Editor’s Note, Spring 2016
Governor Gina Raimondo recently said “If we treat people with substance-abuse problems instead of sending them [to prison], we’re going to save money and save lives.” Addiction is at the forefront of public health discussion as the epidemic continues to have a stranglehold on the United States. The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that […]
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Alumni News, Spring 2016
SARAH DAVEY, MPH ’15 Sarah Davey is working as a project associate for a nonprofit organization called Management Sciences for Health (MSH), in Medford, MA. MSH is one of the primary recipients of USAID funding for global health and health systems strengthening, as well as projects with UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, Save the Children, and […]
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Infectious Diseases
“With today’s technology, knowledge and vaccines there is no reason why we should not have everyone in the world healthy.” – Seth Berkley
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Editor’s Note, Spring 2015
Our publication Continuum is named for the many ways through which the Brown University School of Public Health contributes to the innovation and development of public health as a whole. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines a continuum as “a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees.” […]
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Alumni News, Spring 2015
FARREN BRIGGS, PhD, ScM Since graduating with a ScM in biostatistics at Brown in 2006, Briggs continued on to pursue his PhD in epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, where his research focused on characterizing the genetic component of rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. In 2010, he was awarded a National Multiple Sclerosis Society […]
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Alumnus Profile: Julia Finkelstein, MPH, SM, ScD
I know that you are working at Cornell University, could you tell me a little about your job? I am the Follett Sesquicentennial Fellow and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. I am also an adjunct Associate Professor at St. Johns Research Institute in Bangalore, India, […]