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Alumni Profile: Andriy Chybisov MPH ’17

Tell us about your current role at the American Cancer Society. In developed countries, a cancer fight means hope. In low- and middle-income countries, it almost inevitably means pain, suffering, and death. Three days after graduating with my MPH from Brown, I started work as the Program Manager for Global Capacity Development and Patient Support […]

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Class Notes: Winter 2018

Want to be included in the next issue of Continuum? Let us know all about your latest accomplishments, accolades and promotions! Email public_health@brown.edu today. MEREDITH BERGEY, PhD, MSc, MPH ‘06 After completing her MPH in 2006, Meredith worked as an epidemiologist at the Rhode Island Department of Health and as a biostatistician at the University […]

Posted inFaculty, Winter 2018

Faculty Honors

The latest School of Public Health faculty awards and recognition. Linda Resnik, PhD, Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice 2017 Paul B. Magnuson Award The Magnuson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rehabilitation Research and Development is the highest honor for Department of Veterans Affairs rehabilitation investigators. It recognizes Resnik’s work with advanced upper limb […]

Posted inFaculty, Winter 2018

Expanding Our Talent

The Brown University School of Public Health welcomed exciting new faculty in 2017-18. BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Jasjit Sing Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS Professor of Behavioral & Social Sciences Hector Lopez-Vergara, PhD Assistant Professor of Behavioral & Social Sciences Matthew Meisel, PhD Assistant Professor of Behavioral & Social Sciences Jennifer Pellowski, PhD Assistant Professor of […]

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Out of the Classroom and into the Field

Global fieldwork requires getting out of one’s physical, psychological, and cultural comfort zones and being immersed in challenging and sometimes dangerous environments. In an ever-changing world of increasing climate change, unprecedented natural disasters, uncertain healthcare policies, and growing disease epidemics, the need for global communication and partnership is greater than ever. The field of global […]