CHPHE'S Diana Grigsby-Toussaint, Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology, offered commentary on some of the reasons why communities of color are proportionally underrepresented among the population of people receiving vaccinations.

A new paper by CHPHE's Dr. Diana Grigsby-Toussaint and Dr. Antwan Jones (The George Washington University) asserts housing and the residential context where individuals live will be critical to understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect populations across the socioeconomic spectrum, but particularly for racial and ethnic minority and low-income groups in the US.

CHPHE's Dr. Patricia Risica, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Epidemiology, is the recipient of the School of Public Health's 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

CHPHE's Dr. Akilah Dulin was interviewed in the Spring 2020 issue of Continuum, the magazine of the Brown University School of Public Health. In the interview, she discusses what brought her to the field of public health, how she works to apply her research to the communities she studies, and teaching the next generation of public health researchers.

Created by CHPHE's Diana Grigsby-Toussaint, a social epidemiologist at the Brown University School of Public Health.

"When (Medical Director) Dr. (Philip) Chan and I conceived of this clinic, we wanted to create a safe space for all Rhode Islanders irrespective of their gender, their gender expression, their sexual identity or their orientation." -Dr. Amy Nunn, executive director, Open Door Health

Award will fund research exploring association of greenspace with mental and physical health among pregnant women

The Center for Health Equity Research's Dr. Amy Nunn is among those working with faith communities in the South to reduce the stigma of HIV, with an eye to the social and structural factors that drive the epidemic.

“Rhode Island is one of 13 states in the union that doesn’t have an LGBT health clinic that focuses on serving the LGBT population as a core function of its mission,” says Executive Director Dr. Amy Nunn. The medical director of the clinic, Dr. Philip Chan, echoes her remarks, saying that many times LGBT Rhode Islanders would go to Boston to receive care. Now, they can get the care they need in their home state.

Shira I. Dunsiger, Ph.D., recently joined the Center for Health Equity Research. Here she shares some background on her public health interests and current work.

Katie Biello, PhD, MPH, has been selected to receive a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Sexual & Gender Minority Early Stage Investigator Award. As described by the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO), Biello’s work demonstrates both contemporary achievement in and a commitment to multiple areas of SGM-related health research.

Research by David M. Williams, a clinical psychologist and professor at Brown University, and his colleagues has shown that how you feel during exercise predicts both current and future physical activity levels.