The School of Public Health offers practicing health professionals the chance to upgrade their skills in the state's only part-time, evening public health program. These students also benefit from being in a vital research climate, exemplified by the School's Sloane Epidemiology Unit, which conducts major health studies.

The MOM'S Project, an innovative substance-abuse prevention program founded by a professor at the School, has served more than eight hundred pregnant women from some of Boston's poorest neighborhoods. It recently was recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as one of ten Models That Work, a national campaign that identifies and encourages replication of successful community-based health programs.

Join Together, an anti-drug, anti-gun violence project, is run by School of Public Health staff who have developed creative uses of Internet technology to fight social ills. Join Together Online is a virtual information center (www.jointogether.org) that helps grassroots activists learn from one another. QuitNet is a Web site offering a mutual support network for smokers who are trying to kick the habit. The Web site www.quitnet.org attracts more than 40,000 visitors daily, and has chat rooms that post up to five hundred messages daily.

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