Concluding our 10 Year Anniversary

By Dean Ashish K. Jha

This past year’s celebrations were not only about what we have achieved in our first decade but were also a glimpse into the bright future ahead.

To our Brown public health community,

Last September, we began our celebration of the Brown University School of Public Health’s 10th anniversary, kicking off a series of events and communications that highlighted the unique nature of our school. Below is a sampling of the incredible speakers who visited campus, the SPH alumni changing the face of public health and the ground-breaking research that shapes public health policy and practice across our nation.

This past year’s celebrations were not only about what we have achieved in our first decade but were also a glimpse into the bright future ahead. Drawing upon Brown’s long history of community health, our young school is innovating at a dizzying pace, creating new research, driving policy and preparing students for the rapid changes underway in public health.

All of this is made possible by you, our extraordinarily talented and committed students, faculty, staff, alumni, community partners and supporters. You are the backbone of our school. Your brilliance, creativity and commitment will drive our next decade of impact.

Thank you for celebrating with us over the past year, and thank you for all you do to champion health and well-being for people here in Rhode Island, across the United States and around the world.

Sincerely,

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Ashish K. Jha M.D., MPH
Dean, School of Public Health

A look back at our 10 Year Celebration

Alumni Stories

We interviewed ten public health alumni about their experiences at Brown, their thoughts on the anniversary and their advice for new public health professionals entering the field.

Ten on the 10s

Ten on the 10s: Tiara Mack ’16

Tiara Mack is a Rhode Island State Senator (D-Dist 6, Providence). The first Black queer woman elected to Rhode Island’s State House, Mack is also one of the state’s youngest senators. We asked Tiara how her Brown experience and public health training has shaped her career.

Faculty Spotlights

We spoke with six exceptional public health faculty about their history, their work and their path as academics and public health practitioners.

Behind the Lectern

Joe Hogan

In his nearly thirty years at Brown University, Professor Joe Hogan has witnessed not just a revolution in the fields of biostatistics and HIV research, but a transformation at Brown. In this interview, he traces the young history of biostats at the University and explains how the field helps researchers deliver results that are rigorous and reproducible.

Expanding our research impact

We launched two new research units, the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research and the Center for Health System Sustainability, with expert panels comparing international health systems’ quality, access and outcomes and the expanding role of private equity in the health care market.

School of Public Health Launches New Research Centers

New center at Brown to take on the 'behemoth' problem of health care spending

A panel discussion on the impact of private equity on health care offered an opportunity to show how the School of Public Health’s new research center aims to influence policy through research.

Visiting experts

Distinguished speakers joined Dean Jha for conversations throughout the year about the most pressing public health challenges of our time.

Dean’s Conversation Series

September 28, 2023 School of Public Health Dean's Office

A Conversation with Ron Klain

Ron Klain draws on four decades of experience in law, finance, policymaking, and politics to advise clients across industries on national and international legal issues, crisis management, and the global regulatory environment.

Screening and workshop series

Our Storied Health, a Brown Arts Institute series from the Pandemic Center, is an integrated media experience that illuminates the importance of our collective health and what can be done to enhance it. This academic year, it included film screenings and campus conversations that showcased the power of storytelling as a public health intervention.

Our Storied Health

‘Our Storied Health’ Spotlights the Overdose Epidemic

The focus of the evening was a screening of “Anonymous Sister,” a documentary by Emmy Award-winning director Jamie Boyle. The film provides an intimate account of her family’s struggle with opioids, offering a raw glimpse into what Boyle describes as “the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history.”

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dDzVX74ZJ7o

10 Years

Brown University School of Public Health 10 Year Anniversary