Robert Motley, an NIMH doctoral student at the Brown School, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.The title of his newly funded project is “Racism-Based Trauma, Emerging Adults and Substance Abuse.” Project Narrative Community violence exposure (CVE) remains a critical public health issue facing Black emerging adults […]
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Congratulations to Professors Brett Drake and Enola Proctor! These Brown School faculty were awarded this year’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to Dr. Kate Marcal for successfully defending her Dissertation this morning: “Promoting Child Well-being I’m Homeless Services: A Community-based System Dynamics Approach”
Brown School researcher to study mental health on global scale: $2.9 million NIMH grant will allow Leopoldo J. Cabassa to focus on Chile (Links to an external site)
New Child Maltreatment Research Center Launched with $6.5 Million NIH Grant (Links to an external site)
The Implementation Research Institute (IRI) Application Period is Open
The Implementation Research Institute (IRI) is an exciting learning collaborative of implementation researchers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This unique interdisciplinary training program aims to help researchers launch a research career in implementation science in mental health. The […]
NIMH T32 Pre-Doctoral Fellow presented poster in Symposium at Tsinghua University, Beijing
Addressing global challenges in a spirit of cooperation and collaboration was the prevailing theme of the 7th McDonnell Academy International Symposium, co-hosted by Washington University in St. Louis and Tsinghua University held in Beijing Oct. 11-14. More than 400 attendees, from 35 McDonnell Academy partners around the world, converged to discuss innovative approaches to address issues […]
The Clark-Fox Policy Institute’s first report, Make Work Work: Strengthening Missouri through Quality Child Care for Working Families (Links to an external site)
The report highlights the significant gap between the income minimum wage working parents earn and the real costs it takes to support a family.
Welcome our new NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to introduce two new NIMH T32 Training in Mental Health Services Research postdoctoral fellows and members of the Brown School community: Dr. Hannah Szlyk and Dr. Kimberly Roth. Dr. Hannah Szlyk, PhD, LCSW, studies suicidality among underserved and minority youth, including adolescents of immigrant families. Hannah is specifically interested in how […]
Brown School student awarded funding for work with homeless children (Links to an external site)
Latinos need a disaggregated approach to health care (Links to an external site)
“Pay to Play” School Sports Policies Could Reduce Physical Activity by Students (Links to an external site)
Sean Joe Joins NASEM Committee on Social Needs Care (Links to an external site)
A New Model for Evaluating Stress in Black American Families (Links to an external site)
Darrell Hudson: Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (Links to an external site)
Renee Cunningham-Williams Honored with Excellence in Mental Health Award (Links to an external site)
Researchers Share Toolkit, Experience to Help Build Healthy Spaces (Links to an external site)
Doctoral Student Investigates Health Equity “Siloes” in State Health Departments (Links to an external site)
Uncertainty Leads to Treatment Delays for Young People with Mental Illness (Links to an external site)
Higher Income Level Linked to Police Use of Force Against Black Women (Links to an external site)
New Volume Guides the Movement of Research to Practice (Links to an external site)
Among the editors are Ross C. Brownson, Bernard Becker Professor at the Brown School and Enola K. Proctor, Shanti K. Khinkuka Distinguished Professor at the Brown School.
Culturally Adapted Intervention May Help Hispanics with Serious Mental Illness (Links to an external site)
Link Between Eating Disorders and ADHD May Be Weaker than Expected (Links to an external site)
Combating ‘Disinformation’ About Child Abuse (Links to an external site)
Healthy Racial Identity Important for Adolescent African-American Girls (Links to an external site)
Joe, Jonson-Reid to Join AASWSW (Links to an external site)
‘Journal on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America’ Launches (Links to an external site)
JRISMA editors include Brown School Associate Professor Darrell Hudson and Assistant Professor Sheretta Butler-Barnes.