The front line in one of the most important battles in public health is sandwiched between a luxury hotel and a shuttered restaurant in Providence’s Downtown Historic District.
Epidemiology
Pandemics in Global Perspective
The Brown University School of Public Health has adapted curriculum to best equip students with an understanding of how to prevent, mitigate, and respond to future health crises.
Idea Pioneer
Epidemiologist Erica Walker returns home to study the environmental quality of Jackson, Mississippi.
Student Spotlight: Enyonam Odoom, MPH ’21, generalist track
Profile of MPH student Enyonam Odoom
How do you safely hold theater performances during a pandemic?
Working with epidemiologist Brandon Marshall, the Wilbury Theatre was among the first in the country to resume performances amid the pandemic.
Faculty Profile: Brandon Marshall, Ph.D.
We spoke to Brandon Marshall, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, about the opioid epidemic within the pandemic.
Stay-at-home orders significantly associated with reduced spread of COVID-19, study finds
New research and data suggests that stay-at-home orders helped slow the pandemic significantly.
Alumni Profile: Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH’07, ScB’05
Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH is a board certified pediatrician and a pediatric environmental health specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Time Is Running Out
At a precarious time for the planet, Brown’s Center for Environmental Health and Technology is working to promote resilient, sustainable, healthy communities.
In the Samoan Language “Olaga” Means Life
The Obesity, Lifestyle and Genetic Adaptations (OLaGA) lab, led by Stephen McGarvey, professor of epidemiology, and Nicola Hawley, assistant professor of chronic disease epidemiology at the Yale University School of Public Health, is a unique new research laboratory at the Pacific island nation’s Ministry of Health.