Brown faculty members, Drs. E. Jane Carter and Ruhul Abid find themselves in the midst of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world: among the displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh. Read their story here in the Brown Medicine Magazine.

In a recent TED talk, Edsel Maurice Salvaña, MD, DTM&H, FPCP, FIDSA, a Brown University collaborator from the Philippines, discusses the evolution of the HIV virus and its impact in his home country. Watch Dr. Salvaña's TED talk here and read on for the GHI's interview with him.

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Accompanied by the island nation’s prime minister, Brown University public health professor Stephen McGarvey celebrated a new facility for studying the lifestyle and genetic influences of obesity and non-communicable diseases in Samoa. Read the full story here.