Dear Colleagues:

Happy New Year to all; I hope everyone has had a truly enjoyable and restorative holiday season. We enter 2017 energized and with much to look forward to.

The School has recently launched a brand-new scholarship program involving alumni called the Next Generation Scholars Program. The Next Generation Scholars Program is a program that offers alumni the opportunity to nominate students with potential to be successful in our educational programs. Next Generation Scholars are offered the opportunity to become part of a cohort of select students for scholarship support, enhanced networking, and co-curricular opportunities. We are looking to you, our alumni, to help foster the career of future public health leaders by recommending them to the Next Generation Scholars Program.

We have the first of our first of our annual regional receptions in San Francisco on January 11. Angela Bazzi, assistant professor of community health sciences, will deliver a talk titled “Equitable Innovation? Disparities in Access to New HIV Prevention Technologies.” I hope to see many of our Bay Area alumni there.

I am also excited to launch our 2017 Signature Events schedule, which includes our Public Health Fora, Dean’s Seminar Series, and Dean’s Symposia. We have our first day-long symposium of 2017 on February 1 on the topic of “Reducing Health Inequities: Advancing Meaningful Change.” This symposium will explore how public health can take a leadership role in mitigating the consequences of the social divides that shape much of health in this country. The event is sponsored in part by the Charles L. Donahue Frontiers in Public Health Speaker Series. As always, this event will be live-streamed for those unable to attend on campus.

I hope everyone has a terrific month and start to the year.

Warmly,

Sandro

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH
Dean, Robert A. Knox Professor
sgalea@bu.edu

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