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Bess Marcus to head Brown University's School of Public Health

Providence Journal - 6/15/2017

June 15--PROVIDENCE -- A top public health official at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine has been named the next dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.

Bess Marcus, a leading scholar in health behavior changes and the first senior associate dean for public health at UCSD, will succeed the school's inaugural dean, Terrie Fox Wetle, who is stepping down Sept. 1.

Marcus will assume the post Nov. 1.

A clinical health psychologist and expert in health promotion, Marcus served as a professor of community health and psychiatry and human behavior at Brown before leaving for UCSD in 2011, the university said in a news release.

Marcus was chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the UCSD School of Medicine for six years and the school's senior associate dean for public health -- where she founded and directed the UCSD Institute for Public Health -- for three years.

Brown University President Christina Paxson announced her appointment in a June 14 email to the Brown community.

Marcus first arrived at Brown as a postdoctoral scholar in 1988 after earning her master's degree and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Auburn University. After five years as an assistant professor, she became an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior in 1995 and then a full professor in 2000. In 2004, she became director of the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at Miriam Hospital, an affiliated hospital partner for Brown.

In 2007, Marcus joined the faculty of Brown's Department of Community Health and remained on the faculty when the department became the School of Public Health in 2013.

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