Boston University School of Public Health's latest news, upcoming events, and announcements.
 
 

SPH This Week

June 14, 2020
 
 
 
 
Message from the Dean
 
Looking Ahead: Our 2025-2030 Strategy Map
 
 
 
 
Upcoming Signature Program
 
Teaching Public Health: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice (3/3)
 
 
JUN 17
4:30 to 6 p.m.
 
 
Online
 
 
 
 
School News
 
 
With Local Towns Needing Help Fighting COVID-19, Students and Alums Step Up
 
From contact tracing and data analysis to mapping cases and building websites, members of the SPH community are volunteering where needed.
 
 
Public Health Post
 
 
Racism and the Opportunity Gap
 
The racial opportunity gap is a new, place-based measure of structural racism, showing the difference in the adult earnings of black and white children born to families at the same income level.
 
School News
 
 
Student Wins Scholarship to Study Global Affairs in China
 
Omobolanle Adams received a Yenching Academy Scholarship to pursue a master's degree in China Studies at Peking University in Beijing.
 
 
Activist Lab
 
slideshow
‘A Positive Message of Recovery’
 
MPH student Christian Arthur developed a mural project at two recovery centers in Boston to provide support and an emotional outlet for people experiencing substance use disorder.
 
 
Research
 
 
Screening for Drug Use Can Be Reasonable, But Is Not Evidence-Based
 
Little evidence supports the new recommendations for clinical screening for drug use. Do the potential benefits outweigh the potential harms?
 
Research
 
 
Community Health Centers Face Telehealth Hurdles
 
To ensure healthcare access and equity during and after COVID-19, centers need permanent all-payer parity for telehealth reimbursement and telehealth support tailored to vulnerable populations.
 
 
Viewpoint
 
 
2020: The Great American Trauma
 
All at once, we are living through 1918, 1933, 1968, 2001—times of historic darkness—and yet, the sun always rises again.
 
 
Spotlight
 
 
Staff Spotlight: Meredith Brown
 
Meredith Brown, assistant director of strategic initiatives in the Office of the Dean, says she is fortunate to be in a role where no two days are the same.
 
Spotlight
 
 
Faculty Spotlight: Ziming Xuan
 
Ziming Xuan, associate professor of community health sciences, has studied and informed alcohol and firearm laws that aim to prevent gun violence and substance use among youth.
 
 
PHX
 
 
New Online Youth Program: Learn to Code
 
Over the course of two one-hour sessions on July 7 and 9, middle and high school students will learn how data, math, and coding tools can be used to advance public health.
 
Public Health Post
 
 
Profile—Heidi Larson
 
PHP Fellow Pat Williams interviews Heidi Larson, discussing the narrative of COVID-19 and a global perspective on the coronavirus pandemic.
 
 
 
 
Recently at SPH
 
video
‘We’re Never Done Learning More about Other People’
 
At the second part of the three-part symposium Teaching Public Health: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity & Justice, educators discussed how to create classrooms that are welcoming to all students.
 
 
 
 
In the Media
 
 
Scientific American
 
Zoom Psychiatrists Prep for COVID-19’s Endless Ride — interview with Jaimie Gradus, associate professor of epidemiology.
 
 
WBUR
 
An Infectious Disease Expert’s Perspective as Mass. Enters Phase Two of Reopening — interview with Davidson Hamer, professor of global health.
 
 
Bloomberg
 
Inequality of the Coronavirus Outbreak — interview with Dean Sandro Galea.
 
 
Wired
 
Can’t Go Out and Protest? Here’s How to Help from Home — quotes Eleanor Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology; and Helen Jenkins, assistant professor of biostatistics.
 
 
ABC News
 
Satellite Data Suggests Coronavirus May Have Hit China Earlier: Researchers — quotes Elaine Nsoesie, assistant professor of global health.
 
 
Nature
 
Grieving and Frustrated: Black Scientists Call Out Racism in the Wake of Police Killings — quotes Jasmine Abrams, assistant professor of community health sciences.
 
 
View all media posts
 
 
 
 
Think. Teach. Do.
For the Health of All
 
 
 
 
Looking Ahead
 
 
COVID-19: Community Conversations
 
Tuesday, June 16, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, online.
 
 
Virtual Open Office with Dean McClean
 
Wednesday, June 17, 10:00 am – 11:00 am, online.
 
 
DEAN’S SYMPOSIUM—Teaching Public Health: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice (3/3)
 
Wednesday, June 17, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm, online.
 
 
Virtual Office Hours with Dean Cozier
 
Friday, June 19, 10:00 am – 11:00 am, online.
 
 
View full SPH calendar
 
 
 
 
 
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