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 so many have suffered devastating losses. I have not been surprised however, by the way our community has responded to this unprecedented situation. Online learning is now […]
Bess Marcus
Posted inFall 2019
Letter from the Dean
ONE OF THE FIRST CHALLENGES WE TACKLED after I began my role as Dean of the School of Public Health, nearly two years ago, was the creation of a new strategic plan. This required over a year of collaboration and more than 50 in-depth conversations with our faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community partners. Through […]
Posted inSpring 2019
Letter from the Dean
We often talk about collaboration being essential to the study and practice of public health. As a community we value the importance of bringing together sometimes disparate fields in order to understand and alleviate health challenges. Our School’s culture of collaboration is what struck me most in this issue of Continuum. You will read about […]
Posted inFall 2018
Letter from the Dean
The warning in this issue of Continuum is a stark one. But it’s a warning that’s worth making, and worth heeding. According to leading scientific experts, it is not too late to cap rising temperatures at 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels. Bu tit will take a massive global effort to avoid devastating physical impacts to […]
Posted inFaculty, Winter 2018
Leading the Way: Bess H. Marcus, Ph.D.
Bess Marcus wants to help people make healthy choices. With a rabbi father and a social worker mother, helpers and healers were very much a part of Bess Marcus’s growing up. The Marcus family was all about helping relationships—in the family, and in the community. Her father’s heart disease was another important part of her […]
Posted inFaculty
Letter from the Dean
When there are clearly so many health problems facing the United States, why should we invest in the health of people across the globe? First, advancing health as a right for all, with a special emphasis on vulnerable and marginalized population groups, is a core value of the Brown University School of Public Health. There […]