Leadership
 |
Terrie Wetle, PhDAssociate Dean of Medicine for Public Health and Public Policy
Terrie Fox Wetle is the administrative and academic leader of Brown's Public Health Program. Dr. Wetle has studied health status and service systems for older adults, with a focus on functional status and quality of life and strategies to lengthen active life expectancy. She has a particular interest in long-term and end-of-life care from the perspectives of older persons, their families, and the service professionals who provide care. Her research includes ethical issues in elder care and in public health in general. She has a special interest in qualitative and mixed-methods research. Dr. Wetle teaches graduate courses in Qualitative Methods in Health Research and Ethical Issues in Public Health. |
 |
Vincent Mor, PhD, MEdChair of the Department of Community Health
Dr. Mor's research focuses on the organizational and health care delivery system factors associated with variation in use of health services, and outcomes experienced by frail and chronically ill persons. His areas of study include the quality of nursing home care, Medicare funding for post-acute care, the determinants of hospitalization, disease management for cancer patients and age, and racial discrimination in health care treatments. Dr. Mor teaches an undergraduate course that describes the interplay between the financing, delivery, and regulatory components of the health care system as implemented in the United States. He also teaches a graduate-level seminar presented in case study form to challenge students to view health care delivery issues from the perspective of numerous constituencies. |
 |
Patrick Vivier, MD, PhDAssociate Professor of Community Health
Dr. Vivier's work focuses on the health status and health services utilization of low income families. Important health issues investigated in Dr. Vivier's work include lead poisoning and childhood obesity. Health system issues addressed by Dr. Vivier and colleagues include emergency department utilization and improving information systems to enhance the delivery of health care. Dr. Vivier teaches the Public Health/Community Service Internship to MPH students. |
|
Linda Laliberte, JDAssistant Dean for Public Health Ms. Laliberte is an attorney, health policy analyst and health services researcher with broad experience in Medicare policy and healthcare issues affecting the elderly. She has conducted research on hospice care, nursing home care, residential care facilities, breast cancer treatment for older women, health insurance access in RI. She is currently a member of the team of investigators studying the long-term care system. |