Continuum
Magazine of the Brown University School of Public Health
Spring 2020
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Current Issue
It really is in your head— but how does it work?
The Mindfulness Center at Brown is working to explain why mindfulness makes us healthier. Mindfulness Concentration A first in the nation, the Brown University School of Public Health ...
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Letter from the Dean
I NEVER IMAGINED I WOULD BE WRITING my final “Letter from the Dean” under these circumstances. All of our lives have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and ...
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Alumni
Alumni Profile: The Mindful Entrepreneur Mallika Chopra ’93, P’24
The Brown University graduate, author, public speaker, and entrepreneur was inspired by her father, Deepak Chopra, to help people find intention, balance and a life of purpose. You ...
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Learn by Doing: Ashleigh LoVette
LoVette, a doctoral student in behavioral and social health sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health, studies resilience in young people living in the context of ...
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Faculty in Focus: Akilah Dulin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences Community is the thread that runs through the teaching, research, and policy work of Professor Dulin, a medical sociologist studying how ...
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School of Public Health’s New Dean
ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2020, the Brown University School of Public Health will welcome its third dean, Dr. Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH, succeeding Bess Marcus, Ph.D. who will ...
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Faculty Honors
The Latest School of Public Health Faculty Awards & Recognition Public Health faculty were honored in 2020 by Brown’s Office of the Vice President for Research with competitive ...
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Coronavirus and the Isolation Paradox
“Social distancing” is required to prevent infection. But loneliness can make us sick. IN DECEMBER, a woman in Tulsa, Okla. used a Craigslist post to plea for holiday ...
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Mindfulness Training May Help Lower Blood Pressure
A study led by Professor Eric Loucks, Ph.D., finds that mindfulness could reduce blood pressure by enhancing attention control, emotion regulation and self-awareness of both healthy and unhealthy ...
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Community
Brown Plans New Integrated Wellness Center & Residence Hall
With generous support from the family of Duncan MacMillan and from Barry Sternlicht and Mimi Reichert Sternlicht, and with architects William Rawn Associates selected, the University’s vision for ...