Fall 2024 Communications Opportunities and Updates

Dear SPH Colleagues, The Marketing and Communications Office is excited to highlight and offer new opportunities that spotlight the work you do towards our core purpose: Think. Teach. Do.  October 22 Workshop on Communicating Your Work We invite all faculty and research staff to join our MarCom virtual workshop on November 4th to learn more […]

Fall 2024 Promotion Information Session for Faculty

Dear Colleagues, We will hold a Promotion Information Session for faculty on Thursday October 31 from 1-2pm via zoom. The panel will include myself, as well as three of our colleagues who were recently promoted (Professors Jacey Greece, Chunyu Liu, and Lawrence Long). The goal of these sessions, offered each semester, is to clarify the […]

Fall 2024 Headshot Opportunities for Faculty and Staff

The Office of Marketing and Communications will be offering headshots after School Assembly on Tuesday, October 15 and Tuesday, November 5. Please sign up with your name and BU email address via this form. MarCom headshot sessions will provide you with three pictures via email to select one for your website headshot. There is not […]

Upcoming Religious Holidays

Dear colleagues, As you may know, two holidays are coming up this month. Rosh Hashanah will begin Wednesday, October 2nd at sundown and ends after nightfall on Friday, October 4th, and Yom Kippur, will begin Friday, October 11th before sunset and ends after nightfall on Saturday, October 12th. Individuals observing these holidays may require accommodations […]

APHA 2024 – Everything You Need to Know

The American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from October 27-30. We are excited that SPH will be well represented via attendance, an exhibit hall booth, abstracts, and presentations, as well as an Alumni and Friends reception. If you are confirmed to attend or present: Please fill out this form to let us […]

Faculty Development Seminars – October 2024

Dear colleagues, Faculty at SPH have access to a wide variety of opportunities for faculty development. The portfolio of programs and resources, which are described in the Faculty Handbook, includes our Faculty Development Seminar Series (FDSS). The FDSS is updated each semester to include seminars and workshops from three different sectors:  SPH department-level events, SPH […]

Primary Faculty May Now Vote for the Dean Search Advisory Committee

Dear BUSPH Community, The self-nomination period for the School of Public Health (SPH) Dean Search Advisory Committee has yielded six outstanding BUSPH faculty candidates for consideration. Scarlett Bellamy, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics Maria Glymour, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology Elizabeth McCuskey, Professor in the Department of Health Law Policy & Management Carlos […]

Submit a Faculty Self-Nomination for the Dean Search Advisory Committee by September 30

Dear BUSPH Community, In follow-up to the previous communications from Provost Waters and as discussed during the September 24 School Assembly, the Faculty Senate is pleased to officially launch the process to elect three faculty members to serve on the School of Public Health Dean Search Advisory Committee. The faculty members who are appointed to […]

A New Center for Health Data Science, and Leadership in BEDAC

Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new Center for Health Data Science here at the Boston University School of Public Health that will grow the work of, and subsume, the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC) and the Population Health Data Science Program (PHDS).  I am delighted that […]