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Announcing the 2025-26 Non-Resident Global Health Politics Fellows
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2025-26 Global Health Politics Fellows. The distinguished group of Non-Resident Fellows were selected by the Global Health Politics Workshop's (GHPW) Steering Committee. Fellows will participate in GHPW events throughout the course of the academic year and receive feedback and mentorship from a Steering Committee member on a research paper in the field of global health politics. Meet the 2025-26 Global... More
2025 Graduate Summer Fellows Arrive at the Pardee Center
Last week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 18th annual class of Graduate Summer Fellows to the Center. This year's session includes eight BU graduate students representing seven different academic schools/departments. During the first week of the program, the Fellows participated in an orientation session with Pardee Center Interim Director Amb. Jorge Heine (Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies) and a communication and writing workshop with Pamela Templer (Professor... More
Faculty Associate Adriana Craciun Awarded Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a 2025-26 Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, one of the university's most prestigious fellowships. Radcliffe Fellows are a uniquely interdisciplinary community of scientists, artists, and scholars doing innovative work that confronts pressing social and policy issues while engaging audiences beyond academia. At Radcliffe, Prof. Craciun will explore how the increase... More
Pardee Center Announces 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent seven different academic departments. Starting May 27, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks writing research papers while participating in programming designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning. The 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows are: Kasarachi Aluka-Omitiran, SPH, DrPH, Leadership, Management & Policy Kasarachi will explore how countries can strategically position themselves as... More
Pardee Center Completes Spring 2025 Global Health Politics Workshop Speaker Series
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has concluded the sixth semester of its Global Health Politics Workshop (GHPW) speaker series. The five-part Spring 2025 series included talks about primary health care reforms across nine countries; the relationship between images, health, and security; the prevalence of unnecessary hysterectomy in India; how legacies of colonialism affected responses to the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis; and the urgent need to reimagine global... More