On October 15th, 2018, the annual Academic Pediatric Association Environmental Health Scholars Retreat was held at the Brown University School of Public Health. The retreat gives pre- and postdoctoral trainees an opportunity to present children’s environmental health research in a supportive environment to leading researchers and each other. This year’s 14 trainees came from across the country and presented on a range of environmental health threats facing children, including air pollution, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and toxic metals.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In the first three years of Medicaid expansion due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the number of patients with end-stage kidney disease who died within a year of starting dialysis decreased in states that expanded Medicaid compared to non-expansion states, new research found.
The Brown University School of Public Health invites all Brown alumni, faculty, students, and friends to attend our reception during the APHA Annual Meeting in San Diego
Sunday, November 11, 2018
6:00-8:00 pm
San Diego Convention Center, East Mezzanine Terrace
At a Brown University event co-hosted with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, panelists discussed the importance of partnering with community members and first responders and reducing stigma around addiction.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — With opioid drug overdoses causing more than 100 deaths across America each day, the scale of the nation’s opioid crisis has now reached that of the HIV-AIDS epidemic at its peak.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Among more than 72,000 deaths in the U.S. last year, fentanyl — a highly potent prescription opioid often used to lace other heroin or cocaine, but hard for drug users to detect — factored into many of cases.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Researchers from Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital have been at the forefront of battling the opioid epidemic in Rhode Island, and a new $800,000 grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation will help them to keep up the fight. READ MORE
Members of the Brown community are welcomed to join us for a panel discussion with professionals in the field of trans health to collectively imagine future directions for engaged, affirming, and ethical trans health research and training of future public health scientists, practitioners, and advocates.
Dr. Maureen Phipps, MD, MPH has been named president-elect of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society.
Phipps is chair and Chace-Joukowsky Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and assistant dean for Teaching and Research in Women’s Health at The Warren Alpert Medical School, professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and Care New England Health System, and a member of the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute Executive Committee.
