The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is offering a number of upcoming events for Faculty, Staff, and Students to engage with issues of diversity and inclusion and build a more inclusive school community. Additional offerings will be developed based on your needs. We welcome your ideas via [email protected]. We firmly believe that inclusion is critical to achieving the mission of our School where we advance health as a right for all. Thank you for engaging with these events!
The Students for Latinos/Latinx in Public Health organization will host the Cafecito con Latinos in Public Health event every other Friday from 12-1 pm in room 821 at SPH. This event is part of the Latinos in Public Health series.
Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. Take a break from your day to join us! We’re excited to see you there!
*This is an in-person event.
Join public health practitioners and experts for an in-person panel discussion examining the unfolding public health crisis in Gaza. Sponsored by the School of Public Health Dean’s Office, this special event brings together a panel of experts to discuss short-term solutions that safeguard lives in the crossfire of conflict, as well as long-term effects on the crucial public health infrastructure in the region.
This event is limited to those with a Brown ID and registration is required. We will hold a limited number of seats for walk-ins. You will have to show your Brown ID for a walk-in seat.
Jeremy Konyndyk is president of Refugees International. He has served in senior appointments in two U.S. administrations and in a range of U.S. and overseas NGO leadership positions. Prior to joining Refugees International, Konyndyk served in the Biden administration as USAID’s lead official for COVID-19. From 2013–2017, he served in the Obama administration as the director of USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, where he led the U.S. government’s response to international disasters, including the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Between his administration appointments, Konyndyk worked from 2017–2020 as a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, focusing on humanitarian response and pandemic preparedness research. He is currently a member of the WHO’s high-level Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee, which oversees the agency’s Health Emergencies Programme and advises the WHO Director-General. He began his career in the Balkans, working on the response to the 1999 war in Kosovo.
Danielle Poole Sc.D., MPH ’12 is a population health scientist notable for her contributions to the evidence base for humanitarian decision-making. Recent and ongoing research contributions that have informed humanitarian response include the Yale University independent review of the Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework, development of the Humanitarian Data Strategy for UNFPA’s Humanitarian Office, and geospatial analysis of health facility attacks in Ukraine.
Dr. Mohammad Subeh M.D. is an emergency physician and ultrasound director at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA. While his family is Palestinian, Subeh came to the United States as a refugee from Kuwait, after experiencing the Gulf War in 1990. He recently returned from a volunteer medical mission to the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. Subeh is currently coordinating his second medical mission back.
Ella Watson-Stryker MPH, MIA is a humanitarian representative at Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières. Her work has ranged from field consulting on polio eradication for the WHO to teaching public health and social sciences to Shan youth in Burma to working as an intern in the Ghana Health Service. Watson-Stryker was named a Time’s Person of the Year for her frontline work in West Africa during the 2014 Ebola epidemic.
Join us for a BBQ and networking as we launch our new SPH Queer Working Group! Open to all staff, faculty, & students who are interested in or currently working on research & education that impacts the LGBTQIA+ Community! Our goal is to create a space for LGBTQIA+ identified staff, faculty & students to discuss current events as well as for allies to engage in learning and development opportunities. There will be a sign up for the new Queer Working Group at the BBQueer event!
This workshop will provide an historical framework to help participants contextualize the public health crises in Gaza, Sudan, and elsewhere. Together we will explore how humanitarian crises and public health challenges often co-exist, especially during disease outbreaks, conflict, and forced displacement. We will also evaluate the remarkable progress of humanitarianism and simultaneously examine the oft-repeated themes that continue to challenge public health and humanitarian response to this day. Most importantly, we will question why lessons identified so often fail to become lessons learned. Although the prevailing narrative is that the complex social, political and ideological challenges facing the world are unprecedented, an examination of the history of public health in humanitarian crises reveals that many struggles confronting us today are neither entirely novel nor unique. Open to all Brown students, staff and faculty.
All Brown University graduate, medical, and post-doctoral students are invited to join the celebration at the Graduate Student Lounge on May 3rd, where they will welcome the summer and say farewell to the semester!
Event Date /Time: May 3rd, 2024 (8:00 pm - 12:00 am)
Event Address: Graduate Student Lounge, 90 Thayer St, Providence
RSVP is required for all participants and guests, and drink tickets will be provided upon entry. Please note that this event is exclusively for Brown University graduate, medical, and post-doctoral students. Valid legal ID (21+) and Brown Student ID are required for entry, and Brown students are permitted to bring one registered guest (non-Brown student). Don’t miss out on this opportunity to unwind and enjoy the company of fellow peers and student leaders.