Dr. Megan Ranney named dean of Yale’s school of public health - The Boston Globe

One of Rhode Island’s best-known wellness experts, Dr. Megan Ranney, volition beryllium the caller dean of the Yale School of Public Health, Yale University President Peter Salovey announced Tuesday. She’ll statesman her caller occupation connected July 1.

Ranney, an exigency country doc who is the founding manager of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, became a household sanction during the COVID-19 pandemic. She’s besides serves arsenic the lawman dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, and is simply a prof of behavioral and societal subject and the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine astatine Brown University’s Alpert Medical School.

“Professor Ranney is an internationally recognized nationalist wellness leader, investigator, advocate, and clinician-scientist,” Salovey wrote successful a message introducing her to the Yale community. “She brings to Yale a singular way grounds of driving innovations successful nationalist wellness teaching, research, and practice. Her vocation is distinguished by a heavy committedness to moving with communities to place and code analyzable nationalist wellness challenges, particularly those that load historically underserved oregon marginalized populations.”

In summation to her enactment promoting population-health — she is the co-founder of GetUsPPE.org, a start-up nonprofit that delivers donated idiosyncratic protective instrumentality — Ranney has urged leaders to see weapon unit a nationalist wellness issue, and is the co-founder and elder strategical advisor for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction successful Medicine astatine the Aspen Institute.

“When I telephone it a nationalist wellness crisis, it’s talking astir each of those radical who are physically hurt,” Ranney said on an occurrence of The Rhode Island Report podcast. “It’s besides talking astir the ripple effect. Every 1 of those gunshot wounds hurts not conscionable the unfortunate but besides their family, their friends, their larger community.”

Ranney has written much than 150 peer-reviewed probe publications, technological papers, and publication chapters. Her funded probe has focused connected processing “technology-augmented” interventions to forestall unit and related behavioral wellness problems, Yale University noted in their property release.

“I americium beyond honored to articulation Yale arsenic dean of the School of Public Health, and I americium looking guardant to moving with the faculty, students, staff, alumni, and larger New Haven community,” Ranney said successful a statement. “Together, we volition some physique disconnected YSPH’s bonzer past and specify a transformative imaginativeness of what nationalist wellness education, scholarship, and signifier tin beryllium successful the 21st century.”

Ranney has a bachelor’s successful the past of subject from Harvard College and earned her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her residency and main residency successful exigency medicine astatine Brown University, wherever she besides earned her M.P.H. She’s served connected the module astatine Brown since 2008.

“Megan has been a tireless advocator for patients, students, chap module and aesculapian practitioners — and for advancing originative ideas and approaches to nationalist health,” Ronald Aubert, interim dean of Brown’s School of Public Health, told WPRI.

Ranney volition win Interim Dean Melinda Pettigrew, who led the schoolhouse aft outgoing dean Dr. Sten Vermund returned to full-time teaching and probe successful July 2022.

Lylah Alphonse tin beryllium reached astatine lylah.alphonse@globe.com. Follow her connected Twitter @WriteEditRepeat.