AboutThe Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice (HSPP) includes over 40 full-time faculty based at 121 South Main Street in Providence and over 70 additional faculty who have secondary, adjunct, or other departmental appointments.
Catalyze the delivery of just and higher quality public health and health care services.
We develop and disseminate new knowledge that helps to deliver equitable, effective, efficient, and continuously improving public health and health-care services. We accomplish this through innovative research, engaged teaching, creative training and mentoring and through collaborative engagement with policymakers, service providers and community stakeholders.
Excellence, Equity, Creativity, Free Exchange of Ideas, Promotion of Diversity,
Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Respect, Stakeholder
We have developed relationships with a wide variety of partners and collaborators. Within Brown University these include the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Psychiatry and OB/Gyn at the Medical School, and the Departments of Economics, Sociology and Computer Science on campus. We have a strong and long-standing relationship with the Providence Veteran’s Administration (VA) Hospital.