Division of Biology and Medicine
Brown University’s Division of Biology and Medicine is led by Dean of Medicine
and Biological Sciences Eli Y. Adashi and comprises the Medical School, the
Program in Biology, and the Program in Public Health. The Medical School
houses five basic biology departments offering undergraduate and graduate
courses, 14 clinical departments, and two hybrid departments (which include
both clinical and campus-based faculty).
The Program in Public Health encompasses nine highly active research centers and the Department of Community Health, Master of Public Health degree program, and graduate degree programs in biostatistics and epidemiology. The Division is home to several multidisciplinary research initiatives, including:
- the internationally recognized Brain Science Program, which brings together more than 80 faculty from 10 departments to promote collaborative theoretical and experimental study of the brain from the molecular to the behavioral and cognitive level;
- the Environmental Change Initiative, which promotes training and research in environmental science and public policy by bringing together faculty from such diverse disciplines as ecology, earth systems, demography, economics, and public health, as well as scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA;
- the Program for Recovery from Trauma, one of a handful of centers in the country committed to facilitating the return to healthy and functional lives for armed services personnel, to developing effective prevention and treatment programs for victims of all types of trauma, and to identifying strategies to assist families coping with injured soldiers;
- the Center for Computational Molecular Biology, where top scholars in the fields of computational and mathematical sciences and biology work together to understand the prodigious amounts of data being generated since the sequencing of the human genome, with the aim of making breakthrough discoveries in the life sciences at the molecular and cellular levels.