Tag: Brown University School of Public Health
COVID-19 variant means it’s time to ‘double down’ on protections, say...
PROVIDENCE – A new variant of COVID-19 has been identified in the U.S., but officials from the R.I. Department of Health on Wednesday said...
Brown virus expert ‘frustrated’ by slow vaccine rollout
PROVIDENCE (AP) – Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the world-renowned expert on the coronavirus pandemic, said he is frustrated by the slow rollout of COVID-19...
Raimondo estimates R.I. will receive 29K doses of COVID-19 vaccines this...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is on track to receive 29,000 doses of two different COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year, Gov. Gina...
Blue Cross’ Keck works to create a healthy community
PBN Business Excellence Awards 2020
Corporate Citizenship: Kim A. Keck | CEO and president, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
AS KIM A. KECK...
R.I. Life Index value improves in 2020
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Life Index on how Rhode Islanders feel about a host of health and social issues measured at 62, an increase...
Five Questions With Dr. Ira Wilson
5Q: Dr. Ira Wilson| Chair, Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health
1. From a public health standpoint, what...
Brown’s Alcohol Research Center on HIV awarded $6.2M grant renewal
PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s School of Public Health has been awarded $6.2 million in renewed funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and...
Jha named new Brown School of Public Health dean
PROVIDENCE – The current faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute has been appointed as the new leader for the Brown University School...
Complexities of price transparency in health care makes it an elusive...
Prices attached to health care services and products need to be more transparent, according to panelists at the Providence Business News 2019 Fall Health...
State making strides curbing opioid abuse
A 9 percent decline in opioid-overdose deaths during the first eight months of 2017 compared with the same period the previous year shows Rhode...