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Public Health

Stakeholder Health Podcast, January 2020

Stuart M. Butler

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, announces opioid response grants to state governments in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S. September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott

Order from Chaos

What the US and Canada can learn from other countries to combat the opioid crisis

Keith Humphreys, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, January 13, 2020

Cigarettes are displayed behind the counter of a convenient store.

Report

Development of a computational modeling laboratory for examining tobacco control policies: Tobacco Town

Ross A. Hammond, Todd B. Combs, Austen Mack-Crane, Matt Kasman, Amy Sorg, Doneisha Snider, and Douglas A. Luke

Monday, December 30, 2019

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Op-Ed

Fighting the diseases of want and plenty

Dennis J. Snower

Monday, December 16, 2019

Reports

Immigration

The moral and policy failures of immigration detainee vaccination policy

John Hudak and Christine Stenglein

Monday, November 25, 2019

Newport and Camel cigarettes are stacked on a shelf inside a tobacco store in New York July 11, 2014. U.S. cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc is in talks to acquire rival Lorillard Inc in a multi-billion dollar deal that would reshape one of the world's biggest and most profitable tobacco markets, the companies said on Friday. In a statement confirming what people familiar with the matter previously told Reuters, Reynolds, No.2 player in the United States with brands including Camel and Pall Mall, said the talks were consistent with its strategy of weighing options that would help boost shareholder value. Buying Lorillard, which had a stock market value of $22.9 billion on Thursday, would give Reynolds the leading U.S. menthol cigarette Newport and its leading e-cigarette blu.Buying Lorillard, which had a stock market value of $22.9 billion on Thursday, would give Reynolds the leading U.S. menthol cigarette Newport and its leading e-cigarette blu. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1EA7C02A001

Report

Simulating the effects of tobacco retail restriction policies

Todd B. Combs, Virginia R. McKay, Joseph T. Ornstein, Margaret Mahoney, Kerry Cork, Deena Brosi, Matt Kasman, Benjamin Heuberger, Ross A. Hammond, and Douglas Luke

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Report

Modeling community efforts to reduce childhood obesity

Matt Kasman, Ross A. Hammond, Benjamin Heuberger, Rob Purcell, Austen Mack-Crane, Christina Economos, Boyd Swinburn, Steven Allender, and Melanie Nichols

Monday, August 26, 2019

Public Health

A systematic review of systems dynamics and agent-based obesity models: Evaluating obesity as part of the global syndemic

Alexandra Morshed, Matt Kasman, Benjamin Heuberger, Ross A. Hammond, and Peter S. Hovmand

Friday, July 19, 2019

DATE IMPORTED: March 06, 2019 Police officers patrol a street after a blockade set by members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel to repel security forces during an anti-fuel theft operation in Santa Rosa de Lima, in Guanajuato state, Mexico, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Mexico

AMLO’s security policy: Creative ideas, tough reality

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2019

Blog Posts

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Future Development

The 5 problems China must tackle now to achieve the 2030 health SDGs

Shu Chen, Wenhui Mao, and Shenglan Tang

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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Brown Center Chalkboard

The youth vaping epidemic: Addressing the rise of e-cigarettes in schools

Nandeeni Patel and Diana Quintero

Friday, November 22, 2019

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TechTank

Bridging the gender data gap

Jeanette Gaudry Haynie

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

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Events

2019

Oct

Past Event

Governance structures and private sector engagement in health sector in India

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

Development Seminar | Smallpox eradication: Inclusive histories as meaningful roadmaps for global health

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

WEBINAR – The Flint water crisis: Lessons learned

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Online only

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Experts

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