The 2024 Dean’s Awards were presented at a ceremony at The Hope Club on April 25, 2024. Congratulations to all the winners.
Office of the Dean
2024 Dean’s Awards
2024 Dean’s Awards for Faculty and Staff Excellence, and Public Health Research Day Awards.
National Public Health Week offered students at Brown’s School of Public Health the opportunity to discuss the impact of their research projects and learn about the work of others.
2024 Dean’s Awards
2024 Dean’s Awards for Faculty and Staff Excellence, and Public Health Research Day Awards.
Awards for Faculty Excellence
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Excellence in Mentoring: Jon Steingrimsson, Dean Jha, and Cara Murphy
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Excellence in Classroom Teaching: David Zelaya, Dean Jha, and William Goedel
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Excellence in Research Collaboration: Jill Harrison and Dean Jha. Not pictured: Eric Loucks.
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Excellence in Community Engagement: Ellen McCreedy, Dean Jha, and Alison Tovar
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Community Partner Award: Erica Walker accepts the award on behalf of the Greater Greener Gloster Project
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
- Cara M. Murphy Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Jon A. Steingrimsson Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching
- William C. Goedel Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
- David G. Zelaya Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research Collaboration
- Jill Harrison Ph.D. Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice
- Eric B. Loucks Ph.D. Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Associate Professor of Medicine
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
- Ellen M. McCreedy Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
- Alison Tovar Ph.D. Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dean’s Community Partner Award
- Greater Greener Gloster Project
Awards for Staff Excellence
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Excellence in Leadership: Dean Jha and Vanessa Silva
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Excellence in Innovation: Christine Moulding, Dean Jha, and Carline Fleig
Dean's Award for Excellence in Leadership
- Vanessa Silva, project director, Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity
Dean's Award for Excellence in Innovation
- Carline Fleig, clinical laboratory research manager and Christine A. Moulding, project manager, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
2024 Public Health Research Day Award Recipients
Top Graduate & Postgraduate Posters
- Rehan Aslam ’24 MPH, addictions concentration
"Identifying the Presence of Harm Reduction Supplies at Bars in Providence, Rhode, Island" - Emily Elenio ’24 MPH, interdisciplinary concentration
"Investigating the Cultural Competence of SNAP in Rhode Island and Connecticut Adults" - Corban Jackson ’24 MPH, health services research concentration
"The Association Between the Need for and Access to Mental Health Services and the Income Level of a Child’s Household Among School-age Children in the United States Between Combined Years 2018-2019 and 2020-2021" - Adea Rich ’24, MPH, interdisciplinary concentration
"Associations of plasma p-tau181 with hippocampal subfield integrity and cognition in older adults" - Anqi Zheng ’24 Sc.M., biostatistics
"Examining Race and Sex Disparities in Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children: A Differential Item Functioning Analysis with Item Response Theory (IRT)" - Robert Zielinski 3rd year, Ph.D. biostatistics
"Longitudinal Principal Manifold Estimation" - Amber Hall Postdoctoral Research Associate, epidemiology
"Associations of a Prenatal Serum Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Mixture with the Cord Serum Metabolome in the HOME Study"
Top Undergraduate Posters
- Meehir Dixit ’24
"Evaluation of Subsequent Insurance Enrollment Among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Who Experience a Contract Termination from 2016-2019" - Devon Newman ’25
"Exploring Statistical Methodologies for a Thematic Analysis of a Novel Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based Adaptive Intervention for Teens: iDOVE2 LiveText" - Jasper Yeh ’24
"Key informant perspectives on opioid use disorder treatment for adolescents and young adults"
National Public Health Week offered students at Brown’s School of Public Health the opportunity to discuss the impact of their research projects and learn about the work of others.