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October 12, 2025
SPH This Week.
Latest News, Research, and More
RESEARCH
A new analysis led by Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz provides recommendations on how local leaders can better engage with Latino men who have sex with men on HIV prevention and treatment to achieve the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030. Read more.
ALUMNI NEWS
Ghulam Nabi Kazi (SPH’97), a Pakistani physician turned international civil servant, shares photos from his days at SPH in the late ’90s and reflects on the lessons he has learned over the course of more than three decades in the field of public health. Read more.
AWARDSWith the $1.25 million award, Julia Bond (SPH'24) will examine the relationship between female sexual function and couples’ ability to conceive. Read more. |
ALUMNI NEWSRevathi Ananthakrishnan (SPH'17) earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in biostatistics while working full-time in the pharmaceutical industry on clinical trials testing cancer immunotherapies. Read more. |
The Public Health Conversation Events
For SPH's annual William J. Bicknell lectureship, scholars will discuss the ethics of artificial intelligence use in the field of public health, both nationally and globally.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
Following the Texas Heartbeat Act, women across the state reported a 6.1-percent increase in mental distress, with young women most affected, writes PHP fellow Mallika Chimpiri. Read more.
The Public Health Conversation Events
A In a recent Public Health Conversation, Nahid Bhadelia, founding director of the BU Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases moderated a discussion on how to mitigate vaccine hesitancy with scholars Michael Osterholm, Rekha Lakshmanan, Wendy Parmet, and Jason Schwartz. Watch or listen to the conversation here.
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
The online response to COVID-19 highlighted how social circles often shape people's susceptibility to misinformation, write PHP fellow Aidan Stotz. Read more.
Keep up with SPH on Instagram.
What do bubblers, rotaries, and fluffernutters have in common? They have special meanings to residents in the Commonwealth, but not so much to people outside of the area. MarCom student content creator Carla Irizarry-Delgado quizzes Dean Hyder on Boston slang. See how he scored!
In the Media.
BOSTON GLOBE
Opinion by Jonathan Buonocore, assistant professor of environmental health, and Jonathan Levy, chair and professor of environmental health.
INSIDE PRECISION MEDICINE
Quotes Lindsay Farrer, professor of biostatistics.
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Alan Sager, professor of health law, policy & management.
TASK & PURPOSE
Quotes Kimberly Sullivan, research associate professor of environmental health.
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