Collaborative. Generative. Compassionate. These are the words Dean Terrie Fox Wetle uses to describe Brown’s School of Public Health, but they could just as easily be used to describe her. That’s not so surprising, since she built it. At the end of the 1990s, public health at Brown was a substantial, if somewhat disjointed, enterprise. […]
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Posted inFaculty, Spring 2017
Letter from the Dean
This issue of Continuum focuses on technology-enabled advances in the field of public health. This is the future of public health – but we still have a long way to go. During the Bronze and Iron Ages, it is estimated that life expectancy at birth was about 26 years. In classical Greece, about 28 years. […]
Posted inFaculty, Fall 2016
Letter from the Dean
While this issue of Continuum was going to print, President Paxson and Provost Locke announced my decision to step down as Dean effective September 1, 2017. Since my arrival at Brown 16 years ago, I have focused on working with colleagues to build the Program in Public Health into the now fully accredited School of […]