The following faculty members have been appointed to named professorships by the Brown University Corporation: Joseph W. Hogan, Carole and Lawrence Sirovich Professor of Public Health Joseph M. Braun, RGSS Assistant Professor of Public Health Brandon Marshall, Manning Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Akilah Dulin Keita, Manning Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences Other faculty […]
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Posted inFaculty, Spring 2017
A Place to Call Home
Collaborative. Generative. Compassionate. These are the words Dean Terrie Fox Wetle uses to describe Brown’s School of Public Health, but they could just as easily be used to describe her. That’s not so surprising, since she built it. At the end of the 1990s, public health at Brown was a substantial, if somewhat disjointed, enterprise. […]
Posted inFaculty, Research, Spring 2017
Technology and Public Health
The past several decades have been characterized by anevolution of the public health problems facing society. Global obesity rates have doubled since the 1980s, with the United States experiencing the greatest gains in the developed world. Although total cancer deaths in the US have decreased since the 1990s, cancers of the skin, liver, and kidney […]
Posted inFaculty, Spring 2017
Letter from the Dean
This issue of Continuum focuses on technology-enabled advances in the field of public health. This is the future of public health – but we still have a long way to go. During the Bronze and Iron Ages, it is estimated that life expectancy at birth was about 26 years. In classical Greece, about 28 years. […]
Posted inFaculty, Fall 2016
Dr. Joseph Hogan and Dr. Joseph Braun Appointed to Named Professorships
JOSEPH W. HOGAN Carole and Lawrence Sirovich Professor of Public Health Hogan has been a member of the Brown faculty since 1995, rising through the ranks to become Professor of Biostatistics in 2008. His research focuses on statistical methods for handling missing data, causal inference, and sensitivity analysis; his applied focus is on HIV/AIDS and […]
Posted inFaculty, Fall 2016
Letter from the Dean
While this issue of Continuum was going to print, President Paxson and Provost Locke announced my decision to step down as Dean effective September 1, 2017. Since my arrival at Brown 16 years ago, I have focused on working with colleagues to build the Program in Public Health into the now fully accredited School of […]
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Honors and Awards, Fall 2016
Vincent Mor Florence Pirce Grant University Professor, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) named Vincent Mor, PhD, the 2016 recipient of the Mary K. Ousley Champion of Quality Award for his contributions to quality in the long term and post-acute care community. […]
Posted inFaculty, Fall 2016
New Faculty, Fall 2016
The School of Public Health is fortunate to have several new faculty members in the fold whose research interests run the gamut from behavioral interventions to reduce risk among sexual minorities, to cancer epidemiology data, to alcohol use disorders, to HIV prevention and pharmacoepidemiology. Take a moment to learn how they are working to improve […]
Posted inFaculty, Fall 2016
Faculty Profile: Lynn Hernandez
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior As a member of the Brown University community for over 9 years, you have been Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School, and […]
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Public Health Pioneers
JOSEPH LAU, MD At the end of August, Joseph Lau, MD, retired from the School of Public Health. During his career he has earned a reputation as an invaluable collaborator, mentor, pioneer, innovator, and beloved colleague. Lau retired as professor of health services, policy, and practice at the School of Public Health, where he was […]