Brown University School of Public Health
The Brown University School of Public Health is the public health school of Brown University, a private research university in Rhode Island. It is located along the Providence River, down the hill and about a quarter mile from Brown's central campus on College Hill. The School of Public Health grew out of the Department of Community Health at Brown's Alpert Medical School and was officially founded in 2013 as an independent school.
View of the primary building of the Brown University School of Public Health and the Providence River
Ashish Jha, Dean
The school in 2021
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. One of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, it was the first US college to codify that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religion.
Petitioner Ezra Stiles later became the seventh president of Yale College.
Petitioner William Ellery signed the US Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Brown's first president, minister James Manning
The Ezra Stiles copy of Brown's 1764 charter