SPECIAL REPORT: COVID-19
For four researchers, COVID-19 provided immediate new possibilities.
BEFORE COVID, VINCENT MOR
was engaged
Vincent Mor: “This is the epitome of what applied research is all about.”
in a broad range of research, including co-leading the largest federal grant in University history, a $53.4 million award from the National Institute on Aging to help people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. At the end of January 2020, Mor, professor of health services, policy, and practice at Brown’s School of Public Health, chaired an Alzheimer’s meeting in Washington, D.C., with about 80 colleagues from around the country, and COVID wasn’t a topic of any conversation. That quickly changed.
A COMMUNITY RESPONDS Brown faculty have become prominent voices during the pandemic. Here are selected highlights of their expert commentary.
20 IMPACT 2021
“ Right now there are already hundreds of millions of people in China whose lives have been completely turned upside down by the response to the virus.”
BY NOEL RUBINTON ’77 PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEX GAGNE
—Katherine Mason, assistant professor of anthropology, The Scientific Inquirer, February 18
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