Megan Lunney MPH ’10 is Chancellor of the School of Public Health, Physician in Emergency Medicine, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences, Health Services, Policy and Practice, and one of 100 new members was a person National Academy of Medicine Class of 2022 last week.
The NAM “represents the highest quality of medical and public health sciences across the nation,” said Lanny. “It’s absolutely… a breathtaking class of people I’ve deeply admired over the years.”
“It is a great honor to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine,” she added.
New members elected to the NAM will be selected on the basis of “major contributions to the advancement of medicine, healthcare and public health,” NAM’s director of media relations Dana Cosen wrote to the Herald in an email. .
Lanny said her election “will serve as national testament to the impact of our scholarship and practice at Brown.”
Lanny’s appointment recognizes her work as “a national public health leader and communicator who has brought a greater understanding of public health challenges and changed public health paradigms,” Cosen wrote.
Previously, Ranney worked with NAM on initiatives on science communication, COVID-19, and firearm injury prevention. She said that being elected to the NAM “allows us to be more involved in national academies and to influence research agendas and policies at the national and international level,” while at the same time “making it possible for several people around the world to… “Working with incredible people,” he said. ”
Lanny co-founded a nonprofit American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine Since 2017, he has been a Senior Strategic Advisor. she also Braun Lifespan Center for Digital Health Co-founded in 2019 GetUsPPE.org In 2021, we will help frontline workers and underserved communities access personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I was interested in public health before I knew what it was called,” said Lanny. , it means so much when elections are held,” she added.
After earning a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, Lanny began medical school at Columbia University, before eventually earning a master’s degree in public health from Brown University before joining the Peace Corps working to prevent HIV/AIDS in West Africa during the HIV epidemic. I worked at
“At the Peace Corps, we saw first-hand how important it is to be community-centered in developing both prevention and treatment plans. This is at the heart of public health,” said Lanny. I was.
Maddie McCarthy ’24 is an expert in health and human biology and medical anthropology who has completed two years of independent research and an undergraduate teaching research award project with Ranney. Under Lanny’s guidance, projects she supported included screening patients in the emergency department of Hasbro Children’s Hospital for research focused on preventing peer violence and depressive symptoms in at-risk youth. It included doing
Lanny “makes herself available to her mentees, including me, in a way that I think is rare at the college level,” McCarthy said. , if you look at emails from me and other mentees, I know they usually reply within minutes.”
After independent studies with Lanny and UTRA, McCarthy took a year off from school to do research in California. Meanwhile, she “often… (thoughts) about little pearls of wisdom,” Lanny shared during her coaching.
“She shines so much when she introduces herself to patients in the hospital,” McCarthy said. “If I were her patient, she’d feel a certain amount of safety…[she’s]just commanding her room, so she thought, ‘How do I emulate that?'”
Lanny’s “career over the last few years has been really remarkable, and… I’m very proud,” McCarthy said. “The path she has blazed… is really moving (and) inspiring.”
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