On Oct. 1, newly imposed Medicaid legislation under H.R.1, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, went into effect and Medicaid coverage for immigrants of various statuses was repealed across the country. A team of students from the School of Public Health are working to inform Rhode Islanders about the changes and help them navigate new regulations.
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Pandemic Center
Francesca Beaudoin, M.D., M.S., Ph.D.
Dean of the School of Public Health, Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health
Biography
As dean, Dr. Beaudoin leads the school’s strategy to advance its public health mission through education, research and policy translation. Prior to taking office as dean, Dr. Beaudoin served two years as academic dean overseeing the school’s academic departments, research centers, doctoral and master’s programs and undergraduate concentrations. She is a board-certified practicing emergency physician, clinical epidemiologist, and Principal Investigator of several NIH funded research grants that focus on the intersection between substance use/disorders, mental health, and pain. During the pandemic, Dr. Beaudoin also focused on COVID-19 therapeutics. At the Pandemic Center, her expertise on opioid and other substance use/disorders, along with COVID-19 therapeutics will help us prepare to better care for vulnerable populations in future pandemics.
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Brown Daily Herald
Anchor Fellowship to serve as newest SPH community partnership
At the School of Public Health’s State of the School address last month, SPH Dean Francesca Beaudoin PhD’17 announced a pilot program that aims to connect Master’s in Public Health students with local public health organizations. The initiative, called the Anchor Fellowship, seeks to develop lasting relationships.
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Brown Daily Herald
Fact check: Does an apple a day keep the doctor away?
As flu season settles in on College Hill, sniffles can be heard in every lecture hall. In students’ curiosity as to how they can stay healthy, they may turn to an age-old adage: an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Results from this year’s R.I. Life Index survey, a partnership between Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island and the Brown University School of Public Health, also reflected rising concerns about health care access.
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On this special episode of the 5 Things podcast: In the beginning, people suffering from what is now called long COVID were forced into the shadows. Their symptoms - debilitating tiredness, lung issues and non-specific pain - didn’t seem to fit together. Over 3 years into the pandemic, the medical community is still grappling with the question of treatment. Why has it remained such a mystery? Dr. Francesca Beaudoin, Director of the Long COVID Initiative and Chair of the department of epidemiology [and Pandemic Center affiliate faculty member] at Brown University, joins 5 Things to explain.
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Excerpt - Francesca Beaudoin, an emergency room physician and clinical epidemiologist who directs Brown University’s long-covid initiative, said the findings “capture what we are hearing at the narrative level from patients — that … the systems [affected after recovery from covid’s acute phase] are varied, that it results in loss of quality of life, loss of work and school.” Beaudoin said patients send her updates, reporting they still cannot walk one block without becoming worn out.
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