Boston University School of Public Health

SPH This Week

September 29, 2019

Message from the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Advancement

15 New Faculty Join the SPH Community

Upcoming Signature Program

Follow Chester! Exploring Microaggressions, Civility, and Allies in Children’s Books and Beyond

Oct 7

1 to 2 p.m.

Keefer Auditorium, 72 East Concord Street, Boston

School News

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‘Climate Policy Is Health Policy’

SPH students and faculty joined the global rallies calling for action on climate change.

Research

Teens Less at Risk in Program to Prevent Child Sex Trafficking

Young teenagers showed signs of being less at risk for commercial sexual exploitation after participating in the Boston-based My Life My Choice curriculum.

PHX

MPH Core Curriculum Now Offered Online

Students can create a flexible class schedule by opting to complete the four required MPH courses in a virtual format.

Q&A

‘An Important Message to Share with Children’

Ahead of a Public Health Forum, children's author Gloria Respress-Churchwell on how her new historical fiction book can be used to discuss race and discrimination.

Public Health Post

Profile: Nusrat Choudhury

The deputy director of the ACLU Racial Justice Program discusses her work as a lawyer and advocate exposing and challenging modern-day debtors’ prisons.

Activist Lab

‘Local Public Health Departments Impact Our Health In Many Ways’

Bola Banigbe is a DrPH candidate and the Activist Fellow for Regionalization.

Viewpoint

You Marched for Climate—Now What?

Here are 10 ways youth can continue the fight.

SPH Snapshot

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SPH Snapshot: September 16–27

Scenes from the past two weeks on campus, from a Global Health Research Seminar to an Express, Heal, & Triumph Workshop.

Recently at SPH

‘We Can Transform Entire Courts and State Systems’

At a Public Health Forum, Nusrat Choudhury, deputy director of the ACLU Racial Justice Program, explored solutions to ending the illegal practice of modern-day debtors' prisons.