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National Public Health Week 2021

The nation’s week-long, annual celebration of public health was honored at Brown with events and opportunities highlighting our research and the importance of public health in all our lives! Find a round up of the week's events below, along with the winners of Public Health Research Day! Special thanks goes out to our collaborators in the SPH Careers Office, the Mindfulness Center at Brown, Wellness at Brown, Brown Recreation, and the RI Department of Health for partnering with the School and engaging with us all week long. #NPHW

Public Health Research Day

The School of Public Health’s annual poster conference was hosted virtually for the entire Brown community. The custom conference website, searchable by author or topic, also provided access to live research poster presentations to guests and judges. Congratulations to the winning poster authors!

BEST UNDERGRADUATE POSTERS
Winner
Taylor-Marie Vasil Evaluating Housing Characteristics Associated with Childhood Lead Poisoning in Providence, Rhode Island

Runners-Up
May Gao Can Mindfulness Mechanistically Target Worry to Improve Sleep Disturbances?
Alexander Philips Identifying Trends and Drivers of RI Professional Health Care Spending from 2016-18 Using the RI All-Payer Claims Database (APCD)

BEST MASTER'S POSTERS
Winners
Langa Bakhuluma-Ncube (MPH) Longitudinal Effects of Home-Based Self-HIV Testing on Attitudes, Norms, and Motivation among Men who have Sex with Men in the United States
Alexander Li (ScM Biostatistics) Simulating Virus Detection with Nanopore Sequencing, BLAST, and the Hypergeometric Distribution

BEST DOCTORAL POSTERS
Winner
Alexandria Macmadu (PhD Epidemiology) Crack cocaine use frequency is associated with HIV disease severity independent of antiretroviral therapy exposure

Runner-Up
Taylor Fortnam (PhD Biostatistics) Monitoring Reported Cases of COVID-19 at the Local Level

The Barnes Lecture | Paul Farmer, MD, PhD

WATCH NOW Dean Ashish Jha was joined by medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer, the co-founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In Health, for a discussion on improving the delivery of high-quality health care for the world’s poorest people.

The Barnes Lecture is supported by The Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes, Jr. Lectureship in Public Health, through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Zisson ’74, in memory of Norma and Miles Zisson ’38.

Podcast: Humans in Public Health

Host Megan Hall, MPH’15, speaks with experts from across the School of Public Health on topics ranging from household toxins to homelessness.

Professors Amy Nunn, Joseph Braun, Lorin Crawford, and Dr. Jud Brewer, along with MPH student Sara Caniglia, joined the Humans in Public Health Podcast for #NPHW2021.

MPH Alumni Panel | Advancing Racial Equity

WATCH NOW The SPH Office of Diversity & Inclusion hosted an alumni panel highlighting the transformative work of three amazing MPH alumni focused on advancing racial equity in public health. Special thanks go out to Monique J. Brown, PhD, MPH ’09, Assistant Professor in the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina; Shane Lloyd, MPH ’11, Inclusion and Engagement Leader, Worldwide Consumer at Amazon; and Catherine Nwachukwu, MPH ’17, Manager for Strategy and Research at the Center for Health Information and Analysis.

Betty Marcus Women's Health Endowment Fund

This year, the Betty Marcus Women's Health Endowment Fund recognizes Leigh Hubbard, MS, RN, ONC and Rochelle Rosen, PhD, two RI women who have advanced women's health through their own research and practice, and through their mentorship of other young women.