School of Public Health
Going beyond preventing disease to reshaping health care and safeguarding vulnerable populations, the school is improving human health on a large scale.
Ensuring healthier environments for everyone
The Brown University School of Public Health is a hub of innovation where brilliant minds converge to solve the most personal and pressing challenges facing society today. Focusing on more than abstract statistics, faculty, researchers, and students concentrate on the concrete realities of daily life—from air quality to the mental health and well-being of children.
By translating rigorous science into action, the school’s work serves the public good, finding what works to help individuals and communities thrive. We are redefining public health by focusing on the issues that matter most: ensuring cleaner environments, combating addiction, and fostering resilience in families.
Targeted investments will drive important work in key areas of impact:
- Improving Environmental Health: Evaluating how climate change and environmental hazards, such as air pollution and the pervasive threat of forever chemicals (PFAS), impact human health.
- Understanding Addiction and Behavior: Employing a harm reduction approach to substance use—from evaluating overdose prevention centers to reducing excessive drinking—and conducting studies on the science of cravings.
- Supporting Children’s Mental Health: Tackling the impacts of digital media on youth mental health and developing programs to improve child and family quality of life.
- Preventing Disease: Leading rigorous research into the causes and prevention of chronic health concerns, including cardiovascular, nutritional, and reproductive disorders. Monitoring the latest disease outbreaks across America and the globe to inform responsive action.
- Training Future Leaders: Providing financial assistance and fellowships that allow students to fully commit to their education. This includes support for the Health Equity Scholars program, which equips future leaders with the knowledge and support they need to transform public health for the better.
- Attracting Exceptional Talent: Enabling the school to attract leading faculty and innovators who mentor students and drive research that informs policy.
Your support of the school will provide the resources necessary to advance discovery and to prepare the public health scientists, innovators, and leaders of the future to tackle the biggest threats to health in our local communities and around the globe.
“ Brown has been my home for nearly two decades as an emergency physician, doctoral student, faculty member, and academic dean. It is a community whose collective efforts serve our state, our nation, and the world. That collaboration among faculty, staff, and students is foundational to the School of Public Health’s success: it is integral to our mission and the impact we will continue to make. ”
Support the School of Public Health.
With your help, we can tackle the pressing problems of today and train the public health leaders of tomorrow.
For information about specific giving opportunities, please contact:
Mike Verzino
Assistant Vice President of Development, Academic Initiatives
Mike_Verzino@brown.edu
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