Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to share some exciting news. Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Sc.D., MSPH, will be joining the School of Public Health as a full professor in the Department of Epidemiology with a joint appointment in IBES starting July 1, 2025. She is widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent environmental epidemiologists in the nation and we are just thrilled to have her.

Marianthi comes to us from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences, where she holds the role of associate professor with tenure. She is also the director of a research center there named Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change (CHART). CHART aims to build research capacity and catalyze and coordinate climate and health research and evidence-based solutions on climate change across Columbia University. I look forward to seeing the impact of her research and scholarship in Brown’s work in climate and health. 

Before settling at Columbia, and after working with the California Air Resources Board in the Mobile Source Operations Division as an air resources engineer, Marianthi returned to academics at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and earned her Sc.D. in the Department of Environmental Health. She also holds an MSPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from their Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and a 5-year diploma in environmental engineering from the Department of Environmental Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace in Xanthi, Greece. 

Marianthi is renowned not only for her research and academic excellence but also for her dedication to mentoring and fostering a collaborative academic environment wherever she goes. Just to name a few of her accolades, she has received numerous best paper awards from the NIEHS Environmental Factor, AJE, and American Statistical Association, she was awarded the ISEE Tony McMichael Mid-Term Career award in 2023 and the Dean's Excellence in Mentoring award in 2022. Marianthi also received special recognition in both 2021 and 2024 for her top-tier peer reviewing and was included in the 2018 list of the best reviewers of the year in the American Journal of Epidemiology. 

I could not be more pleased to have Marianthi joining us, and I have no doubt that she will fit seamlessly into our dynamic and growing community of public health leaders and experts we continue to build here at SPH. 

Thank you to the members of the search committee, with a special thanks to committee chair Allan Just, who all carefully vetted her candidacy. I also want to note that bringing such incredible individuals like Marianthi to Brown SPH cannot happen without the terrific team in Faculty Affairs who worked so closely with the entire leadership team and search committee to make this happen. I am grateful to everyone involved in the process. 

We continue to attract the very best and brightest because our school is tackling the big problems in public health with intellectual rigor and a commitment to translating our best research into practice in ways that make real differences in people’s lives. And for that, I’m thankful to all of you.

Please join me in welcoming Marianthi to our community.

Sincerely,

Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH
Dean, School of Public Health
Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice