- Faculty & Staff
- December 1, 2025
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). Here we highlight the events offered in December:
Department Events:
Biostatistics
- Causal Inference Seminar Series; Tuesday, December 2, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Biostatistics Monthly Seminar; Thursday, December 11, 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Environmental Health
- PFAS Exposure in an Arctic Community: An Example of a Community-Based Project; Wednesday, December 10, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Epidemiology
- PROGRESS Initiative Talk; Monday, December 1, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- EPI Seminar Series: Quantitative Investigations of Racism, Embodiment, and Reparations; Tuesday, December 2, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Epi Informatics – Code Review; Thursday, December 4, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Global Health
- GH Research Seminar Series; Monday, December 1, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- GH Research Seminar Series; Monday, December 8, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- GH Research Seminar Series; Monday, December 15, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
School-wide Events:
- Center for Health Data Science: Discover DataHub, Pilot Award & Networking; Tuesday, December 2, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- SPH Faculty & Staff Writing Community; Friday, December 5, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
- Faculty Breakfast; Tuesday, December 9, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
- Navigating Change: How to Adapt with Resilience; Thursday, December 11, 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
- NSF Broader Impacts in a Different Climate; Thursday, December 11, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- School Assembly; Tuesday, December 16, 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
University-Wide Events:
- LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty and Staff Drop-In Hours at BUMC; Monday, December 1, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Pathways of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Change in the U.S.; Monday, December 1, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
- 2025 Early Childhood Keynote Lecture provided by Dean Adnan Hyder; Monday, December 1, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
- LGBTQIA+ Community Grab n’ Gab at BUMC; Tuesday, December 2, 8:30 am – 10:00 am
- GSI Seminar: Opportunities and Challenges in Spatial Omics Cancer Research; Tuesday, December 2, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Racializing Algorithms – Social Justice for Data Science; Tuesday, December 2, 3:30pm – 5:00 pm
- Quantitative Workshop: Latent Variable Models and Inference Methods; Wednesday, December 3, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Content Confusion: A Conversation & Lunch with Expert & Author Michelle Amazeen; Thursday, December 4, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
- Raif Ali Dinckok Summit Leadership Series with Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna; Thursday, December 4, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Advancing Climate Action in Small and Midsize Cities; Wednesday, December 10, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series Lecture – Does it matter if you’re born that way? — a presentation and discussion on the evolution of anti-gay and anti-trans attitudes; Friday, December 12, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Opportunities from the National Council on Faculty Development and Diversity:
- Virtual Writing Session; Tuesday, December 16, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Please reach out to sphfro@bu.edu with any questions or if you would like to add any professional development seminars/workshops to the calendar.
Sincerely,
Mike McClean, ScD
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Advancement
mmcclean@bu.edu