Magazine of the Brown University School of Public Health
Fall 2019
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Fall 2019
Aging Gracefully: The Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research
30 years of accomplishment by Brown’s Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research ...
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Fall 2019
Stroke Patients Receive Vastly Different Amounts of Physical Therapy, Despite its Clear Benefits
Patients who receive more physical therapy are less likely to be readmitted to a hospital within a month, yet the amount of care made available to Medicare patients ...
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Fall 2019
Medicaid Expansion Linked to Reduced Mortality Among Dialysis Patients
A study finds that fewer patients with end-stage kidney disease died within a year of starting dialysis in states that expanded Medicaid coverage in the wake of the ...
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Faculty
Expanding Our Talent
Brown’s School of Public Health welcomes exciting new faculty for 2019 Behavioral and Social Sciences Epidemiology Health Services, Policy, and Practice More Faculty News: Melissa Clark Appointed Dean ...
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Alumni
Alumni Profile: Chima Ndumele, MPH, Ph.D.
We caught up with Chima Ndumele, MPH, Ph.D., an alum of the health services research doctoral program, when he was on campus last spring serving as a panelist ...
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Alumni
Class Notes: Latest Alumni News
Larry Warner ’97, MPH ’13 Larry (right) is the Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives at United Way of Rhode Island. In this role he leads a team ...
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Alumni
Alumni Profile: Clara Berridge, PhD
Clara Berridge, Ph.D. was an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality postdoctoral fellow for two years, focused on chronic disease and aging, at the School of Public Health’s ...
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Faculty
Alzheimer’s Study Finds PET Scan Affects Patient Diagnosis, Management
The results are the first part of a national study of whether a method to detect Alzheimer’s-related plaques improves the outcomes of patients with mild cognitive impairment and ...
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Community
Health Impact: Making a Difference in Health Care Today
In Partnership: Hebrew SeniorLife A research collaborator with Brown for nearly 40 years, Hebrew Senior Life is Brown’s partner in a new $53.4 million NIA grant to improve ...
