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COVID-19 telephone hotline: 401-368-4828.
This line is staffed 8:00am-4:00pm, Monday through Friday for inquiries from all faculty and staff members related to the COVID-19 test or to respond to other health-related inquiries - Brown's COVID-19 Dashboard is updated regularly with results of routine asymptomatic COVID-19 testing on campus.
- Pandemics Explained unlocking evidence for better decision-making
- COVID-19 Campus Safety Policy Overview and Acknowledgement Phase 2 training in Workday
- Brown's COVID-19 Workplace Safety Policy (PDF)
- Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity (CHPHE) and Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) Statement on Health Disparities and COVID-19
- Social Impact of COVID-19: COVID-19 is amplifying economic, health, and social inequalities around the world.
- Coronavirus Resources from the Department of Epidemiology
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Hub, from the Watson Institute
- Essential Steps for Prevention and Care
- Frequently asked questions about testing and tracing
- Daily Update / Office Hours with Dr. Jud, Dr. Jud Brewer's YouTube channel
- Free Community Mindfulness Sessions Available Live Online or by Telephone
- International Travel Risk Management, from Global Brown
- Travel Restrictions regarding University-sponsored travel
- Children and COVID: how to help children through this stressful time, PDF from the Developmental Congitive Neuroscience Lab
SPH COVID-19 Resources
For Graduate Students
COVID-19 FAQs for Graduate Students
For Post-docs
Guidance for essential and critical work for the Brown postdoctoral scholar community
Healthy Brown
What you need to know now
Community Resources
- Virtual NIH activities
- How You Can Help from RI Dept of Health
- Guide to Local Resources from the RI Office of Healthy Aging (PDF)
- Rhode Island Department of Health
- Centers for Disease Control
- Volunteer opportunities through the United Way of Rhode Island
A robust protocol of testing and contact tracing for all students, faculty and staff who are on campus regularly is serving as an essential element for supporting community health.

Support & Wellness for the Brown Community
To support you as you support our community, we have curated resources from Brown and beyond to help you navigate this unpredictable time.
Recent Events
Conversations with ... series
- For his Conversations with ... series, Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health, joins distinguished expert guests in conversation on various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Delta Variant Discussion and Q&A
- August 10, 2021: Dean Ashish Jha, Dr. Paul Offit, and Helen Branswell discuss the Delta variant and its impact as the fall months approach
Election Aftermath: Public Health in the US and the World
- November 5 and 11, 2020: Dean Ashish Jha and a panel of experts take stock of how the election outcome will impact public health, the economy, and health disparities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States.
Covid Today: Is America Really Ready to Re-Open?
- August 4, 2020: Incoming dean of the School of Public Health Ashish Jha and economist Emily Oster
Decoding Covid: Health Disparities and COVID-19
- June 8, 2020: Amal Trivedi, MD, MPH and Diana Grigsby-Toussaint, PhD, MPH
Webinars from the Hassenfeld Institute
- October 21, 2020: "Supporting K-12 Students' Learning during COVID-19: Resources for Parents and Caregivers," featuring Nancy E. Hill, Ph.D., of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Nathaniel Schwartz of Brown's Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
- July 23, 2020: "Questions about Autism during COVID-19 and Beyond," featuring Stephen Sheinkopf, Ph.D., and Joanne Quinn
- June 25, 2020: Sleeping, Eating and Being Active: Healthy Routines for Kids during COVID-19 and Beyond
- May 14, 2020: Pregnancy and COVID-19
- May 19, 2020: Children and COVID-19
How Racism, Economic Inequality, and Coronavirus Intersect
- June 2, 2020: Dr. Ashish Jha, incoming dean of the Brown School of Public Health, explores the ongoing collision of systemic racism, coronavirus, and economic catastrophe with the Watson Institute’s Trending Globally Podcast.
Experts from Across Brown on COVID-19
- April 14, 2020: Panelists Mark Lurie, Jud Brewer, Wendy Schiller, and Megan Ranney join moderator Adam Levine for a discussion on the current crisis.
Alpert Medical School’s Decoding Covid Seminars
- The Division of Biology and Medicine’s series invites physicians and researchers to present virtual seminars related to the novel coronavirus and the present pandemic.

COVID: What Comes Next with Dean Ashish Jha
For this weekly Providence Journal podcast, Dean Jha analyzes the events of the previous days and offers his guidance on what lies ahead.