SPH This Week.
November 28, 2021
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SCHOOL NEWS
The program, slated to begin Spring 2023, builds on the success of Questrom’s online MBA program and will offer a fully online foundational education in public health.
RESEARCHChildren infected with cytomegalovirus—a type of common herpes virus—before they were 12 months old were more than three times as likely to develop tuberculosis disease in their childhood than babies who did not contract the virus in their first year. |
SCHOOL NEWSThe magazine, which highlighted the innovative work of the school in responding to the pandemic and other critical issues, took gold in the Annual Reports category at the In-House Agency Forum's annual awards ceremony. |
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SCHOOL NEWS
Maria Costa, grants manager in the Department of Environmental Health, discusses serving as a member of Staff Senate and how her experience has impacted her time at SPH.
POPULATION HEALTH EXCHANGELearn epidemiologic methods that are central to the understanding and control of infectious diseases in populations in this 25-hour online course, which is taught by Alanna Brennan, assistant professor of global health, and begins on January 10, 2022. |
LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTHAlum Peter Mirandi (SPH '93), who has more than 30 years of local public health experience in several Massachusetts communities, spoke with Public Health Post about how he approaches public health leadership, from everyday situations to a crisis. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
COVID-19's waves have created profound and multiple losses, and the pandemic has underscored disenfranchised grief—grief that is not “openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly mourned.”
In the Media.
BOSTON 25 NEWS
Interview with Catherine Ettman, director of strategic initiatives in the Office of the Dean
BOSTON GLOBE
Opinion co-written by doctoral student Kate Mitchell Balla
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Opinion by Dean Sandro Galea
BOSTON HERALD
Quotes Davidson Hamer, professor of global health
NEW YORK TIMES
Quotes Eleanor Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology
STAT NEWS
Quotes Alan Sager, professor of health law, policy & management
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Quotes Brooke Nichols, assistant professor of global health
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