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SPOTLIGHT ON SPH STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS
Our School’s strategy map identifies five strategic directions—cities and health; climate, the planet, and health; health inequities; infectious diseases; and mental and behavioral health—that are of critical importance to the public’s health and are areas of strength and potential for growth for the School. These strategic directions emerged from broad consultation both internal and external to the School.
The mission of Boston University School of Public Health is to improve the health and well-being of populations worldwide, particularly the underserved, through excellence and innovation in education, research, and practice.
Health Inequities
Every day, the BUSPH community works towards this mission by examining and addressing the conditions that create poor health. In particular, our community explores the conditions that disproportionately affect marginalized populations, towards the goal of promoting health for all.
Think.
“The mortality impact of the pandemic is still effectively hidden in many parts of the country.”
Andrew Stokes
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH
“Following the expiration of the payments at the end of 2021, the gains in racial equity were eroded, potentially further exacerbating racial and health inequities and increasing distrust.”
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HEALTH LAW, POLICY & MANAGEMENT
“The fact that we’re seeing the same results on the national and state level shows consistency of the associations between neighborhood deprivation and fertility.”
Mary Willis
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
“For the first time in more than a decade, the maternal mortality rate for Hispanic women during the pandemic was higher than that for non-Hispanic White women white, a shift that may be related to COVID and deserves greater attention moving forward.”
Eugene Declercq
PROFESSOR OF COMMUNITY HEALTH SCIENCES
Teach.
“It puts innovation at the center of our thinking, and it encourages students to apply the skills they learn in the classroom to the real world in real-time. And as faculty, it ensures we are teaching our students tangible, applicable skills they can use in the workforce to move the field forward.”
Jacey Greece
CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNITY HEALTH SCIENCES
“As both a school and a field, we want the people closest to the communities we serve doing the work, and it starts by providing them with both opportunity and access."
Julia Lanham
ASSISTANT DEAN FOR CAREERS AND PRACTICUM
“The decision to eliminate the GRE was based on evidence of bias and structural barriers that we as a school aim to eliminate to ensure that all students have access to high-quality educational programs.”
Lisa Sullivan
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR EDUCATION AND PROFESSOR OF BIOSTATISTICS
Do.
“Past evidence has shown that women and children suffer the worst consequences in any conflict. The World Health Organization has estimated that 60 percent of maternal deaths worldwide occur in fragile settings such as Ukraine.”
Monica Onyango
CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH
"‘Let’s commit to employing powerful, unrelenting, compassionate, strategic actions aimed at correcting what’s wrong."
Craig Andrade (SPH’06, ’11)
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR PRACTICE AND DIRECTOR OF THE ACTIVIST LAB
WEDNESDAY
NOV
30
1–2:30 p.m.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION—ONLINE
Public health aims to create conditions so that all populations flourish and live fully realized lives. How do we ensure that we keep the concerns of persons with disabilities—visible and invisible—front and center in the public health conversation? What should be our priorities for public health to center the concerns of disabled populations in our work?
WEDNESDAY
DEC
7
1–2:30 p.m.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATION—ONLINE
The past few years have seen the proposal and enactment of a range of laws that challenge the human rights of the LGBTQ+ community, and particularly transgender people. This calls on public health to affirm a central truth, that there can be no health without respect for the dignity and basic rights of all populations. This conversation will address the current attacks on transgender populations, the active threats to those working to support these populations, and how we as a public health community can continue to promote the health and rights of transgender people.
Dig Deeper
As we continue our work on our School's Strategic Directions, we will post the most up to date research and articles online.
7 of 12 in our limited series, Spotlight on SPH, which highlights work across BUSPH. We welcome feedback, with our goal of being ever better at fulfilling our core purpose: Think. Teach. Do. For the Health of All. See our archive.
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