Congrats to SHP's Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, appointed to the The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Methodology Committee, the nonprofit launched by Affordable Care Act to develop & maintain methodological standards for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research. 🎇🎉🙌🏽 stanford.io/3Z1XOcI

Proud to have #WHOPandemicHub in the room for the launch of Africa CDC Event-Based Surveillance Resources #EBSResources Alongside WHO African Region, we are collectively working to strengthen health security and support national public health agencies on the continent

Today = 20 yrs since Dr Carlo Urbani’s death. Dr Urbani was WHO Việt Nam in 2003 when he alerted the 🌎 to #SARS ➡️ timely response that saved millions of lives - but he lost his own in the process. I look at these plaques in our office w/ gratitude & humility every day. 🙏

"Increasingly we're finding it in other animal populations, most worryingly mammals. And that raises our concerns about its potential future ability to infect humans." Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH in this piece on bird flu from Eli Kintisch/Scripps News: scrippsnews.com/stories/why-is…

Told ya so 😎 Congrats Bryn, you deserve it!

.Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health is excited to co-host, with the Horizon Institute for Public Service, the inaugural Game Changers Workshop for Biosecurity Policy this weekend in Washington, DC!

Whatever day the Public Health Emergency Declaration ends or expires, the pandemic is ongoing. SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate in our environment, and COVID is now the #3 cause of death in the US. 1/

🎧 🎙Listen to #AI and #lifesciences expert, Sam Scarpino discuss how AI and #ML can help predict and prevent future #pandemics with our Executive Director, Usama Fayyad on the latest "Legends of #Data and AI" #podcast episode. bit.ly/3nz8pz5

The 24th annual Barnes Lecture featured Deputy The White House Mpox Coordinator DrDemetre in conversation with Dr. Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻. Read how the infectious disease physician turned public health activist in the latest from Continuum Magazine!🌈 #NPHW #NPHW2023 brownpublichealthmagazine.org/2023/04/demetr…

🧵 IFL co-founder Claire Wardle, professor of the practice of health services, policy and practice at Brown University School of Public Health, is one of four Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Fund awardees. bit.ly/3MSrQxd

Tune in tomorrow!

As World Health Organization (WHO) announces COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, Professor Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH says “What is most urgent now is . . . that countries don't turn their back on trying to learn the lessons of COVID." Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health scientificamerican.com/article/world-…

Fantastic piece, and a must read, on what the US has to do if it wants to stop the next pandemic. tl;dr it’s not more investment in early warning systems, it’s testing, data sharing, & societal improvements (decarceration, health care, raising the min wage, worker protection).

Brilliant indeed Bryn Loftness ! Check out the recording of Bryn's fantastic talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=dbcDsC…

Huge thanks to Bryn Loftness and Sam Rosenblatt for making the trip from Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM last week to talk MAPPS! Your insights, expertise, and enthusiasm always impress. #FriendsOfMAPPS

How do we avoid total society shutdown during a pandemic? Professor Mark Lurie says it's key to know how social mixing & human mobility impact pathogen spread. Listen now to hear about his study MAPPS-Mobility Analysis for Pandemic Prevention Strategies. humans-in-public-health.captivate.fm

BRIDGES Symposium: Cutting Edge Research by Young South African Scholars — Five upcoming PhD scholars from South Africa, currently on a mini-sabbatical at Brown University, present 10-minute sessions highlighting their dissertation research. (VIDEO) youtube.com/watch?v=gbF8Uj…

Introducing our recruitment leaders for MAPPING@Brown! When you see MPH students Julia & Maria around SPH this week, say hi & ask them about how you can make an important contribution to research just by downloading an app!

Attention SPH community members! Now through 11/19 the MAPPS team is collecting social mixing data within #BrownSPH to help predict future pandemic outbreaks in places like schools & nursing homes. Follow the link to learn more and download the app! mappsproject.com/mapping-brown

Data collection has begun! But its not too late to join the study! Check out this article for a perspective on this groundbreaking research, how we got here, and where we are going: brown.edu/news/2023-11-0…