2022 Dean’s Awards for Faculty Excellence
Excellence in Community Engagement:
Excellence in Mentoring in Public Health (two winners):
Excellence in Research Collaboration:
Excellence in Classroom Teaching in Public Health: |
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Andrew Zullo
May 2022: Andrew Zullo, assistant professor of health services, policy and practice, received a 2022 Brown Early Career Research Achievement Award |
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Carolina Hass-Koffler
May 2022: Carolina Hass-Koffler, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, is PI of a 2022 Brown Seed Award |
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Dean Ashish K. Jha
Dr. Ashish K. Jha, dean of the School of Public Health, was honored with the Meeting the Moment in Public Health Award from Johnson & Johnson Research! America. Jha was recognized for “playing a key role in communicating public health information and developments to members of the public” and for his “masterful ability and tireless commitment to conveying key information about COVID-19 to a wide array of audiences.” |
Brown faculty confers highest honor on Professor Vincent Mor
May 2021: Vincent Mor, a longtime School of Public Health faculty member who is an accomplished scholar and educator, was awarded the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal of Honor during the University’s 253rd Commencement ceremonies. |
2021 Dean's Awards for Faculty Excellence
Excellence in Community Engagement:
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring (two winners):
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research Collaboration:
Excellence in Classroom Teaching: |
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Dean Jha named one "World's 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune magazine
October 2021: Dr. Ashish K. Jha, dean of the School of Public Health, was named one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune magazine. The magazine noted: "Jha has a way, both in his public commentary and social media presence, of breaking down complicated public health issues in accessible language. His lack of a government affiliation has also helped him appear more trustworthy to skeptically inclined viewers." His Twitter threads expertly blend data, charts, and human impact." |
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Tracy Madsen
August 2021: Dr. Tracy Madsen, an associate professor of epidemiology and emergency medicine, was selected by the National Academy of Medicine as the 2021 American Board of Emergency Medicine Fellow. During her two-year fellowship, Madsen will collaborate with eminent researchers, policy experts and clinicians from across the country and will help facilitate initiatives convened by the National Academies to provide nonpartisan and evidence-based guidance to policymakers, academic leaders, health care administrators and the public. |
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Patricia Cioe
January 2021: Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences Patricia Cioe was named by the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing as one of 75 “luminaries” representing the best nurses and nurse scientists to have come through its nursing program over the years, excelling in professional practice, education, research and advancement of the college, and making lasting contributions to the profession of nursing. |
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Richard W. Besdine
Dr. Richard W. Besdine, a professor of medicine and health services, policy and practice, received the Charles “Bud” Kahn, M.D., Lifetime Leadership Award from the Miriam Hospital Medical Staff Association for "outstanding leadership over a lifetime of service." Besdine retired from his position as director of the division of geriatrics and palliative medicine in the department of medicine, and chief of geriatrics, for Lifespan after 20 years of service. |
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Sara Becker
2020: Sara Becker, an associate professor of behavioral and social sciences and psychiatry and human behavior, won the 2020 G. Alan Marlatt Mid-Career Research Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies for her program of rigorous research in the field of addiction psychology. |
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Amal Trivedi
May 2021: Amal Trivedi is one of two faculty members recognized this year with the Graduate School's Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring. Trivedi received numerous nominations from current and former students and faculty in the School of Public Health where he is Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice. |
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Lorin Crawford
October 2020: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named Lorin Crawford, an assistant professor of biostatistics, a 2020 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering. |
2020 Dean's Awards for Faculty Excellence
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research Collaboration:
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching:
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring: |
Kali Thomas - Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award
May 2020: Professor Kali Thomas is the inaugural recipient of the Terrie Fox Wetle Rising Star Award in Health Services and Aging Research from the American Federation for Aging Research. Learn more about Dr. Thomas' work applying health services research to inform policies and practices that improve health and quality of life for older adults, and about her award's namesake, Professor Fox Wetle, founding dean of the School of Public Health. |
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Peter Monti Honored with Brown University Distinguished Research Achievement Award
April 2020: Peter Monti received one of seven Research Achievement Awards from Brown University, in its annual program to honor exceptional scholars across a wide variety of disciplines. |
Andrew Zullo
Andrew Zullo, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice has been named a Health in Aging Foundation New Investigator Awardee by the The American Geriatrics Society. These awards honor individuals whose original research reflects new insights in geriatrics and a commitment to the discipline’s role in academia. |
2019 Dean's Awards for Faculty Excellence
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching in Public Health: Jennifer Nazareno, PhD Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring in Public Health (two winners): Amal Trivedi, MD, MPH; and David Williams, PhD Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research Collaboration in Public Health: Joseph Braun, MSPH, PhD |
Kali Thomas
Dr. Thomas works to improve the quality of life of older adults needing long-term services and support. She leads projects related to care delivered in long-term care facilities and the role of home- and community-based services in preventing or postponing nursing home placement. |
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Lorin Crawford
Lorin Crawford, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will receive a $70,000 fellowship to support his research building deep learning algorithms able to detect the complex interactions between genes that contribute to diseases, such as cancer. |
Dr. Megan Ranney
Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, was honored with the 2018 Bruce M. Selya Award for Excellence in Research at the Lifespan Annual Meeting. Dr. Ranney has distinguished herself in the field of emergency mental health research and violent injury prevention, particularly firearm injury prevention. She is an expert in non-partisan public health research on firearm injury, and is among a group of physicians nationally bringing the matter to the public’s attention. |
Patricia Cioe
Patricia Cioe, RN, NP, PhD, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, is a nurse practitioner and has been providing HIV primary care for over 20 years. |
Dr. Josiah “Jody” Rich - 2018 class
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Dr. Maureen Phipps - president-elect of
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Constantine Gatsonis
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Zelen Leadership Award who by virtue of their outstanding leadership, has greatly impacted the theory and practice of statistical science. While individual accomplishments are considered, the most distinguishing criterion is the awardee’s contribution to the creation of an environment in which statistical science and its applications have flourished. |
Vincent Mor
The Distinguished Research Achievement Award honors faculty members with exceptional records of nationally acclaimed research throughout their careers at Brown. Mor was cited for his sustained success over decades in advancing research on how the delivery of health care affects the well-being of frail and chronically ill people, particularly the elderly. He was also cited for his leadership in building an outstanding public health research program at Brown. |
Joseph Braun - Brown University Early Career
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Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott
September 2018: Members of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASHO) are the chief health officials in each US state. The organization develops and guides public health policy in state-based public health practice with the ultimate goal of improving the nation’s health. Alexander-Scott will spend a year working with the current president to help steer the organization before assuming that role in September 2018. |
Akilah Dulin Keita
This award recognizes outstanding scholarship published in the Journal of Community Practice. Articles are reviewed and selected by a committee comprised of ACOSA scholars based on contribution to the field, scholarly approach, and promotion of macro practice values. |
Chris Schmid - President of the Society for
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Joseph Braun - Collaborative on Health and the
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Medeva Ghee - INSIGHT into Diversity’s 2017
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Dr. Josiah Rich - 2017 Charles “Bud” Kahn, M.D.
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Adam Sullivan - 2017 Teaching with
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Vince Mor
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) has named Vincent Mor, PhD, Florence Pirce Grant University Professor, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, the 2016 recipient of the Mary K. Ousley Champion of Quality Award for his contributions to quality in the long term and post-acute care community. Professor Mor is also the recipient of the 2016 Robert W. Kleemeier Award. This distinguished honor is given annually to a Gerontological Society of America member in recognition for outstanding research in the field of gerontology. Click here to see the video. |
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Kali Thomas
Kali Thomas, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Carroll L. Estes Rising Star Award, by The Gerontological Society of America. This honor is given annually by the GSA’s Social Research, Policy and Practice Section to a member who has made significant contributions in social research, policy, and practice early in his or her career. |