Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security concern. They project that the consequences of global warming – rising seas, ...

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a ...

Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University ...

To request special services, accommodations, or assistance for any events, please contact the Watson Institute at WatsonEvents@brown.edu or (401) 863-2809. Brown University abides by public health ...

At this week’s China Chat we will be joined by Zhuqing Li, Head of Library Exploration and Research for East Asia, and Adjunct Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, for a discussion of her book ...

Over one half of the federal government’s total assets — buildings, aircraft, ships, vehicles, computers, and weapons — are used for national defense. In 2000, the Pentagon’s total assets were valued ...

Source: The Long-Term Costs of U.S. Care for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, by Linda Bilmes (2021) The commitment to veterans continues long after wars ends. Those who have been deployed ...

Blanche Greene-Cramer is an Epidemiologist with the Health Emergency Information & Risk Assessment department at the World Health Organization HQ in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining WHO in 2019, ...

Dr. Zheng comes to Brown from Yale University School of Public Health where he was the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and the Chairman of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences ...

The U.S. budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan from FY2001-FY2022 totaled over 2.3 trillion dollars. The estimated U.S. budgetary costs of the wars in Iraq and Syria from FY2003-FY2023 totaled 2.9 ...

Data from War Spending and Lost Opportunities (2019) by Heidi Peltier. Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, ...