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.
Health Policy
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Back to the Land
Summer Gonsalves MPH’19 builds relationships with communities impacted by environmental contamination
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Unmasked: Openness and Autistic Public Health
This column will address, through a combination of personal perspective and research analysis, the public-health value of greater openness and self-advocacy with respect to autism.
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New guidelines to help health providers prevent gun injuries and deaths
Each year, approximately 40,000 people in the United States die because of guns, making firearm-related injuries a leading cause of death for adults and children.
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Child’s Play?
Erlyn Rachelle Macarayan Ph.D., MS, RN is an adjunct assistant professor of health services, policy and practice at the School of Public Health. In her spare time, she writes children’s books.
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To advance human rights, consult neuroscience
Scholars find brain science bolsters long-held notions that people thrive when they enjoy basic human rights such as agency, freedom from want, and freedom from fear
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Spreading the Good Word
When Amy Nunn ScD, MS, professor of behavioral and social sciences in the Brown School of Public Health and professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School, looked at the problem of COVID vaccine hesitancy in the Black community, she made no assumptions.
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Dean Ashish Jha stresses a global approach to ending COVID-19 pandemic in testimony before Congress
A COVID-19 outbreak anywhere can quickly become an outbreak everywhere.
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Rainbow Wave: Tiara Mack ’16
Rhode Island’s first openly LGBTQ Black person elected to the State Senate