Please join us on Thursday, April 21st, 11 am to 12 pm, for a talk on "Early life exposures and neurodevelopmental outcomes: What have we learned from the Danish National Birth Cohort?" in Room 245 at 121 South Main Street.  The talk is Free and Open to the Public. 

The Society for Epidemiologic Research has recently awarded Assistant Professor Brandon Marshall with the 2016 Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiologist Award. This award is offered in recognition of early career epidemiologists who have already made substantial contributions to the field and who are poised to become future leaders in epidemiology. Dr. Marshall will be awarded on June 23rd at the 2016 Epidemiology Congress of the Americas in Miami, FL.

Brandon Marshall, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, found in a study of more than 700 HIV-positive people who use drugs found that eliminating homelessness could help reduce the disease to undetectable levels and prevent transmission to others. The study was published in the March issue of AIDS. 

Masters of Epidemiology student, Ayorinde (Ayo) Soipe, presented his work on "Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) burden in Rhode Island: Modelling treatment scale-up and elimination" as part of RI Defeats HepC