The Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice (HSPP) includes 25 full-time faculty based at 121 South Main Street in Providence, 73 faculty from other Brown University Departments that have secondary appointments and other affiliated faculty.
We develop and disseminate new knowledge that helps to deliver effective, efficient, continuously improving and just public health and health care services. We accomplish this through innovative research, engaged teaching, creative training and mentoring and collaborative engagement with policy makers and service providers.
Catalyze the delivery of higher quality and more cost-effective public health and health care services.
Innovation, Creativity, Promotion of Diversity, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Community Engagement, Excellence.
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.