I am pleased to welcome our full community back for an exciting new semester. To our new students, faculty, and staff, a very warm welcome to Brown and the vibrant community that is our School of Public Health.

Dr. Ira Wilson will be assuming a new role as the associate provost for academic space in the office of the Provost, after years of dedicated service as the Chair of the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice (HSPP) at the School of Public Health.

I am pleased to announce two important leadership transitions within the Brown University School of Public Health, effective September 1, 2023.

This fall marks ten years since Brown’s Corporation voted to unite the University’s impactful public health programs into a unified School of Public Health. It’s an important milestone for our school, and one that builds on over 100 years of public health leadership at Brown.

Some reflections as I return to Brown.

Karen L. Andes, Ph.D. will begin as Director of the Master of Public Health Program, effective July 1, 2023.

Dean Jha returns to lead the Brown University School of Public Health on July 1, 2023.

Annie Gjelsvik will be stepping away from her role as the MPH Program Director.

We are delighted to announce that Francesca Beaudoin will be appointed the Department of Epidemiology Chair

The Brown Innovation and Research Collaborative for Health

We are thrilled to share with our community the awardees of the Dean’s Awards for faculty and staff excellence and the poster winners from Public Health Research Day 2023!

Two new and important leadership transitions in the School of Public Health.

Jai-Me Potter-Rutledge will continue as our Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Dr. Megan L. Ranney has been named dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Megan will step down from her current role as deputy dean of Brown’s School of Public Health effective July 1, 2023

We want to take this time to welcome you all back to Brown and the School of Public Health after what we hope was a restful, healthy, and happy winter break!

The Brown School of Public Health is accepting proposals for the annual Nora Kahn Piore Award.

I am writing to solicit nominations for the Brown School of Public Health Alumni Impact Award

Brown University, Care New England, and Lifespan have entered into an aligned research collaboration agreement that will establish a unified approach to administering health and medical research.

I am pleased to introduce Sarah Bouchard, who began last week as our new Director of Community Engagement for the School of Public Health.

We have signed a lease for office space at 66 Pavilion Avenue in Providence

The APHA’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo is being held in Boston from November 6-9, 2022.

Suzanne M. Colby, professor of psychiatry and human behavior and of behavioral and social sciences, will step in as interim CAAS director

We are writing to update you on space planning for the School.

It is unequivocal that the health of pregnant individuals and children depends on access to obtaining safe and effective reproductive care.

An important update on our work regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

An update on the current state of the pandemic as we approach our upcoming Commencement weekend

Introducing four dynamic new faculty

Alison E. Field ScD, Professor of Epidemiology, has been appointed as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the School of Public Health

Two new positions to continue building better support systems for students and faculty at the School of Public Health.

Associate Dean for Education Melissa Clark will be returning to her full-time faculty role

Kim Gans will be stepping down from her role as SPH Director of Community Engagement

Ronald Aubert will serve as the interim dean for the School of Public Health while I am on leave.

President Joe Biden has asked me to come to Washington, D.C. to serve as the White House Covid-19 Coordinator and Counselor to the President

A pioneer in global public health for more than 35 years, Dr. Seth Berkley has been a champion of equitable access to vaccines and of innovation, and a driving force to improve the way the world prevents and responds to infectious disease. A medical doctor and infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr. Berkley joined Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance as its CEO in August 2011.

It is with a deep sense of loss that we share the news that Paul Farmer MD, Ph.D., passed today at the age of 62.

We are pleased to invite nominations for the new 2022 Dean’s Community Partner Award.

School of Public Health has recognized distinguished faculty for over ten (10) years with our annual Dean’s Awards

A conversation with Dr. James Gavin, clinical professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and Principal, J.R. Gavin & Associates, LLC. He also serves as Chief Medical Officer of Healing Our Village, Inc. He served as President and CEO of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Caroline Kuo, associate professor of behavioral and social sciences and senior advisor on Diversity for the School of Public Health, will be leaving Brown

Operario, Ph.D., professor of behavioral and social sciences, will be leaving Brown at the end of this semester

I am tremendously excited to work with you, to deepen and build new partnerships and coalitions, to create and iterate with you as we transform how the world teaches, studies, and practices public health.

Peter M. Monti, Ph.D., will step down from the role of director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS)

Dr. Sapna Desai is a public health researcher and practitioner based at the Population Council in New Delhi, India, where she focuses on women’s health, community-based interventions and health systems.

A reorganization of the School's teams

An air sampling research project

An organizational assessment of the Brown School of Public Health

As a key advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), recommended booster shots for those who received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown School of Public Health, spoke with Noubar Afeyan, CEO of Flagship Pioneering, the company that created and nurtured Moderna, as part of the Dean’s conversation series.

I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP, as the School’s inaugural Academic Dean

Dean Ashish K. Jha was joined for a conversation with Dr. Zeynep Tüfekçi, McColl Term Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science, and Contributing opinion writer at The Atlantic and The New York Times. They discuss what we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, how we’re still learning (and not learning) lessons, and how we do better in future health crises.