"About half of American adults have hypertension and of them only half of them have it under control," said Dr. Eric Loucks, director of the mindfulness center at Brown, who designed this study.

Compared to students entering kindergarten before the pandemic, current students started school with weaker math and reading skills and were less likely to start school at grade level, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Oxfam International published its inequality report this month, detailing a slew of grim predictions about the ever-widening wealth gap.

Once program co-founder asks, ‘Why couldn't you just teach every kid in America to read one-on-one?’

Sociologist Ananda Martin-Caughey is re-examining social survey data to analyze the impacts of job title stratification.

Suicide and overdoses are among the leading causes of maternal death in the U.S.

Most part-time workers in America are women — leaving them with less access to retirement plans and less money to sock away.

An ongoing project will help the School of Public Health generate recommendations for how to handle another event like COVID-19.

By reevaluating existing data, researchers find the procedure is even more valuable than consensus had indicated.

John Papay's and colleagues' research on "Understanding High Schools’ Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes" was chosen as the most important education study of 2023 by Amber Northern, Vice President of Research for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, during the Research in Review segment of the Institute's last podcast of the year.

To help students regain academic ground lost during the pandemic, schools have often rearranged their class schedules to eke out more time for instruction in individual subjects. But new research suggests adding extra time to the school calendar—rather than rescheduling classes—is what really adds up for students over time.

PSTC researcher Daniel Jordan Smith’s 2022 book documents how citizen-government relationships in Nigeria have been impacted by the state’s infrastructural shortcomings.

The top 1% of American earners now control more wealth than the nation’s entire middle class, federal data show.

Brown University’s Emily Oster says Zelma could democratize school performance data as schools struggle to recover from pandemic.

Brown University analysis of test data shows that ‘recovery is possible,’ but many states lag behind.

A research project called MAPPS is convening a wide array of community members to better understand how social mixing contributes to virus spread, and how that may inform future pandemic response.

Using innovative survey techniques, the project aims to comprehensively document the experiences of migrants to the U.S. from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Before rushing to build the next DARPA, we need to assess the R&D model we have.

Most evaluations of health equity policy have focused on the effects of individual laws. However, multiple laws’ combined effects better reflect the crosscutting nature of structurally racist legal regimes.

The childhood cancer cases and subsequent litigation were chronicled in ‘A Civil Action.’

Childhood experiences have an enormous impact on children’s long-term societal contributions. Experiencing childhood maltreatment is associated with compromised physical and mental health, decreased educational attainment and future earnings, and increased criminal activity.

The differences in how rich and poor children are educated start very early.

Robin Jeffrey, a visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore, and Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University in the U.S., will speak at a session on Kerala economy.

As part of the TestRI research project, PSTC epidemiologist Alexandra B. Collins worked alongside RI community partners to better understand and mitigate local overdose risk.