Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown School of Public Health

A warm congratulations to Anthony Surace, who successfully defended his dissertation today. 🎉
It’s About Time: A Temporal Analysis of Minority Strengths/Stress Effects on Drinking Behavior Among Sexual Minorities

A warm congratulations to Ashley Gomez for successfully defending her dissertation on April 26th!
Title: Work, Migration, Gender, and Place: Social Determinants of Latine Health in the United States

A warm congratulations to Holly Boyle for successfully defending her dissertation this afternoon!

Title: Simultaneous Alcohol and Cannabis Use Among Young Adults: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Determinants, Mechanisms, and Consequences

Students unite to take a hands-on, DIY approach to improving air quality An event hosted by Brown’s School of Public Health brought students together to build low-cost, highly effective Corsi-Rosenthal cubes as air filters that will augment existing filtration systems at Brown.

Join us for the 2nd annual Nala Dinner: A Banquet of Grace and Giving! This is a semi-formal event hosted by AfriSA and the Black Heritage Series. This event will enable community members to celebrate our togetherness and gratitude during this Holiday season! Save the date and get your fits ready💫

Interested in becoming more active with sustainability related projects at Brown? Apply to join our paid internship program! This position is 6-7 paid hours a week during the academic semester. Apply here: https://wd5.myworkday.com/.../15$392530/9925$15344.htmld

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brownpublichealth_thanksgiving-means-family-food-and-plenty-activity-6866072928920887297-FPDF

Brown University School of Public Health on LinkedIn: Thanksgiving means family, food — and plenty of harmful diet talk. “If we decide to put aside this endless parade of bad things to say about our body, our eating habits, especially for something like Thanksgiving," Mercedes...

BSS faculty member, Jen Nazareno, will be speaking tomorrow - check it out!

Join us for the opening event of this year's Race & in America series: Race & Inequality, on Tuesday, October 26 at 12 noon. Register: https://bit.ly/raceandinequality
Learn more: https://bit.ly/raceandseries

Last year, over 3,000 attended Race & in America events. At a pivotal moment, the series provided a virtual platform for thinking through the ways that anti-Black racism remains an enduring and foundational feature of American society.

Now the series expands and deepens in scope—both in thinking more comparatively about the roots and effects of racism in the U.S. and exploring the arts more fully. Jointly sponsored by CSREA and the Office of the Provost, Brown scholars will investigate the origins, histories, and enduring contemporary effects of racism in America from a range of fields and scholarly perspectives.

New Paper Authored by 15 Past Presidents of SRNT Argue for Balanced Approach to E-Cigarette Regulation A new paper co-authored by fifteen past presidents of the Society for Research on Ni****ne and To***co (SRNT) and published in the American Journal of Public Health encourages the media, leg

The University of the Philippines Manila, in collaboration with Brown University, through the NIH-Fogarty Training Program for the Prevention of HIV in Vulnerable Populations, is inviting you to attend its five-part webinar series on HIV and COVID-19 this July-August 2021.

The webinar series will highlight the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the HIV prevention and care continuum, and the lessons that can guide HIV service delivery in the post-pandemic Philippines.

The webinar will be conducted through Zoom and will be live-streamed via the UP Manila and UPM-Brown Facebook and Twitter pages. It is free and open to the public.

Click this link https://tinyurl.com/UPMBrownWebinar or scan the QR code in the poster to register for the webinar series.

This webinar series has been organized in part with the collaborative efforts of incoming BSHS Ph.D. candidate, Ma Irene Quilantang, Sc.M.

Please join us in congratulating Kira DiClemente! She just successfully defended her dissertation: "Mental health experiences of women exposed to war and violence in Africa: a community-based approach."

Congrats, Dr. DiClemente! 👏🥳

Check out the newly released Black Student Wellness Collective!
https://sites.google.com/brown.edu/bswc

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Today is the day! Now you can sign up for a vaccine if you live, work, of go to school in RI and are over 16 years of age. See link for more info!

Check out these achievements from our awesome faculty!

Declare Racism a Public Health Emergency
It would be more than just a symbolic gesture.

By Abdullah Shihipar
Mr. Shihipar is a public health researcher who leads Narrative Projects and Policy Impact Initiatives at the People, Place and Health Collective — a research laboratory in the Department of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/opinion/racism-public-health-emergency.html?smid=em-share

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Opinion | Declare Racism a Public Health Emergency It would be more than just a symbolic gesture.

BSS faculty member, Patricia Cioe, Ph.D. is recognized by the University of Rhode Island for contributions to professional practice, education, research and/or advancement of the College itself.

https://twitter.com/URI_Nursing/status/1368918053543624721?s=20

URI_Nursing on Twitter “College identifies 75 nursing leaders to have come through the College as part of its 75th Anniversary, including its inaugural dean, Louisa White https://t.co/TFhEn9Btqs”

National Public Health Week is coming up! April 5-11, 2021

Please take a look at the link for info on all of the awesome events that the Brown University School of Public Health has in store.

https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/events/nphw/2021

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National Public Health Week 2021 | School of Public Health | Brown University National Public Health Week (April 5-11) is a week-long, annual celebration of public health supported by the American Public Health Association and honored at Brown University with events and opportunities all week long that highlight our research accomplishments and the importance of public health...

Shout out to our PhD student, Ashley Gomez, for this highlight! 👏

Brown PhD candidate studies the health of immigrant Latinas in Providence - The Boston Globe Ashley Gomez, a Brown University Hazeltine Fellow, is comparing the health and socio-economic statuses of Latinas in Providence and New York City.

Please join SPH for some of our events coming up!
https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/diversity/events/bhm2021

Black History Month 2021 | Public Health Diversity | Brown University Join the School of Public in celebrating Black History Month 2021! The following events and opportunities are designed to lift and empower the voices of Black women leaders devoted to health equity, advocacy, and public health and to spur conversation and engagement on the health of the Black commun...

We at BSS would like to thank everyone for their dedication and resilience this year. It's been a challenging one, and we're ready for what lies ahead in the months ahead! We hope you have a restful holiday break with lots of peace, love, and maybe even some pie! 😀

High-Impact Articles

Groundbreaking new paper on brain compounds signaling emotional wellness in healthy people published in NeuroImage by Dr. Tara White and her team at Brown.

See press release at the Carney Institute for Brain Science: https://www.brown.edu/carney/news/2020/11/06/study-delves-emotional-wellness-human-brain

Link to the paper (Free online!) is here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920309940 #

Study delves into emotional wellness in the human brain | Carney Institute for Brain Science | Brown University Scientists at Brown University’s Carney Institute for Brain Science used proton magnetic spectroscopy (1H-MRS), a noninvasive brain imaging technique, to determine how specific biochemical compounds in the brain relate to daily emotions. The researchers focused on two emotions: agency, the ability...

Monday, October 26, 4 - 5:30 p.m.

Child Health Disparities Panel:
Phyllis Dennery, MD
Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Pediatrics
Executive Committee, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute

Patrick Vivier, MD, PhD
Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Executive Committee, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute

Kaitlyn Camacho Orona, MPH
Policy Analyst
Rhode Island Kids Count

Decoding Disparities Lecture Series | School of Public Health | Brown University All lectures are 4 - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Co-sponsored by the Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Public Health, the Decoding Disparities Lecture Series examines health inequity and outlines steps toward a more equitable and just health care system. Established in 1987 to honor the mem...

Check out this lecture series. The next talk is TODAY, titled:
Disparities in Cancer Prevention and Care
https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/events/decoding

Decoding Disparities Lecture Series | School of Public Health | Brown University All lectures are 4 - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Co-sponsored by the Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Public Health, the Decoding Disparities Lecture Series examines health inequity and outlines steps toward a more equitable and just health care system. Established in 1987 to honor the mem...

NIH: Institute and Center Award Rates and Funding Disparities
"In 2011, Ginther et al. first demonstrated that African American and Black applicants to the National Institutes of Health received grant awards at a lower rate than their white counterparts (Ginther 2011)."

https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2020/08/12/institute-and-center-award-rates-and-funding-disparities/

We are once again heartbroken and appalled to witness another act of police brutality against a Black person—this time the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer in Wisconsin. The disproportionate rate of attack on Black bodies by police is a public health crisis borne out of systemic anti-Black racism. Plain and simple, we must treat it like the public health crisis that it is.

https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/bss/news/2020/08/responding-shooting-jacob-blake

Responding to the shooting of Jacob Blake | Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences | Brown University We are once again heartbroken and appalled to witness another act of police brutality against a Black person—this time the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer in Wisconsin. What we are not is surprised. These horrific acts of violence and murder against Black bodies at the hands of law enf...

BSHS PhD students Alison Weber and Mikey Mercedes are writing the news!

Our Turn: Alison Z. Weber and Marquisele Mercedes: Why R.I. should ban tear gas Earlier this month, the Rhode Island State Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of people in downtown Providence. Tear gas is banned in international

Congratulations to BSHS PhD student Anthony Surace on his acceptance into the Population Reference Bureau's U.S. Policy Communication Training Program! The highly competitive U.S. Policy Communication Training Program prepares researchers to influence policy and practice through effective communication.

"My long-term goal is to develop a career as a behavioral scientist researching the impact environmental factors (e.g. discrimination) have on s*xual minority (SM) populations’ alcohol use. Ultimately, I want such research to inform public health and social policies to reduce health disparities between SM and non-SM populations. To this end, my goal for the U.S. Policy Communication Training is to acquire necessary training to disseminate research findings to policy makers/community members."

Highlighted on the SPH page!

Public Health Voices of Protest | School of Public Health | Brown University

Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules

A big win! 🏳️‍🌈

nytimes.com The court said the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits s*x discrimination, applies to discrimination based on s*xual orientation and gender identity.

Article by BSS faculty and PhD student is cited by Dr. Robert Garofalo, Transgender Health Editor-in-Chief, as part of the condemnation of President Trump's discriminatory Executive Order against transgender people.

Statement from Editor-in-Chief Dr. Robert Garofalo on Historic Presidential Discrimination Policy “At a time when our nation faces unprecedented challenges in the forms of a global pandemic and racial unrest, it is unconscionable that the Administration would choose to focus its attention on discrimination and the erosion of the tenant of health care as a basic human right. Discrimination has ...

Kim Gans Named Director of Community Engagement | School of Public Health | Brown University Kim Gans, Ph.D., MPH, Adjunct Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, ​has been appointed the Director of Community Engagement in the School of Public Health effective immediately.

Congratulations to BSHS PhD student Tess DeAtley on her acceptance into the Population Reference Bureau's U.S. Policy Communication Training Program!


The highly competitive U.S. Policy Communication Training Program prepares researchers to influence policy and practice through effective communication.

Through the U.S. Policy Communication Training Program, participants will:

Understand the process by which research informs the policy environment.
Learn various ways to communicate findings to U.S. and international policy audiences.
Improve their ability to communicate in written and verbal formats.
Core training sessions cover the research to policy gap, communication strategies to link research to policy, writing for policy and nontechnical audiences, and effective content for and delivery of presentations.

This program is made possible by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Brown research teams mobilize to investigate COVID-19 solutions Brown’s new COVID-19 Research Seed Fund is supporting 15 teams of faculty researchers who are working rapidly to develop solutions that could impact the world’s response to the pandemic.

Congratulations to the 2020 BSHS PhD Graduates!

The faculty and staff of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences wish to salute the brilliant 2020 PhD graduate students! "Cheers" to your many collective achievements; we can't wait to see what you do next.

https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/bss/news/2020/05/congratulations-2020-bshs-phd-graduates?fbclid=IwAR2GRacEmHHat9w6gll4LOiToIFL_3Rr8eljiR21ovAUvDzCXAVBbO-8dS0

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