Rx for “Information Disorder”
Disinformation is making us sick, literally. Asking the right questions and training the right people may be the cure.
Medicine & Health
Liberation Cuisine
Chef Gabriela Álvarez-Martinez ’11 draws from her public-health training and her Puerto Rican roots to create delicious food to sustain and heal those trying to change the world—starting with herself.
Deep Seeing
A unique collaboration between two Brown alums can help doctors better identify cancer before it occurs.
Rhode Island’s Opioid Crisis, Exposed
A data-driven dive into how, even in the smallest state, billions of addictive pills were manufactured, prescribed, and abused.
Data-Driven Elder Care
A student startup is driving down hospitalizations in geriatric patients
Meeting the Need
A nurse practitioner helps bring primary care to San Francisco’s mentally ill and homeless
Beyond the Average White Guy
Experts are moving past biological sex to “precision medicine” that takes each individual patient—whatever their gender—into account.
The First Word in Public Health
For Brown public health dean Ashish Jha, the nation’s new COVID czar, being one of the most trusted pandemic pundits in the U.S. isn’t about moonlighting. It’s about effective public health messaging for Gen Z and beyond.
Raise or Raze
If storms and floods threaten your home, do you raise it or abandon the site?
Fast Food Capitalism
The Pulitzer-winning Franchise by Marcia Chatelain ’03 AM, ’08 PhD, narrates the complicated history between McDonald’s and its Black outlet owners
Healthcare Hero
Leon L. Haley Jr. ’86, a doctor and CEO who inspired a COVID vaccination rally
The Latest on Distraction
The rise in ADHD diagnoses has researchers asking what’s behind it—and whether it's really such a bad thing
Border Aid
Hannah Janeway ’15 MD cofounded a group giving medical care to migrants stuck in Tijuana.
Asymmetrical Beauty
Sarah Ruhl ’97, ’01 MFA, on her decade-long struggle with facial palsy
The Malaria Hunter
A Brown pathology professor may have developed a revolutionary new approach to battling one of the world’s deadliest diseases
Separating Fat from Fiction
A student-driven course on “fatphobia” examines both science and stigma.
Can We End Alzheimer’s?
Treatment, much less cure, has been elusive. Brown scientists are on the case.
Phone Aid
Emergency medical training at your fingertips
The Only Doctor
On the COVID front line in remote Northern Michigan
Stick It.
How do you get the world to work together, and fast, to get all of humanity vaccinated against COVID?
Pandemic Problem Solving
A senior specializes in equity-based solutions
Passages
The vaccine, commencement, and the passing of Vartan Gregorian.
Keeping Germs Away
Purell’s CEO on the crazy demand for hand sanitizer
Getting Through It
How do some people thrive despite adversity?