- Faculty & Staff
- September 29, 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 October:
Department Events:
Biostatistics
- 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award Ceremony; Friday, October 3, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
- Biostatistics Monthly Seminar; Thursday, October 23, 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Community Health Sciences
- CHS Think. Teach. Do. Seminar Series – A Generalist Career in Public Health: Medical Editing and Health Equity Research; Wednesday, October 15, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Global Health
- GH Research Seminar Series: Minttu Rönn; Monday, October 6, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- GH Research Seminar Series: Gene Kwan; Monday, October 20, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- GH Research Seminar Series: Mark Lurie; Monday, October 27, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
School-wide Events:
- CLER 9th Annual Supreme Court Watch; Thursday, October 2, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
- SPH Faculty & Staff Writing Community; Friday, October 3, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
- Public Health Conversation: Vaccine Hesitancy: Past, Present, and Future; Wednesday, October 8th, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Public Health Conversation: AI, Public Health, and Ethics; Tuesday, October 14, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- SPH Teaching and Learning; Wednesday, October 15, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- School Assembly; Tuesday, October 21, 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
- Best Practices for Using AI in Public Health Writing; Thursday, October 23, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Donahue Lecture: Featuring Marcela del Carmen, MD, MPH, president of Massachusetts General Hospital; Tuesday, October 28, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
University-Wide Events:
- Meet the Funder: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute; Wednesday, October 1, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- AI Usage Policies in Course: What works, what does not, and what else we should consider; Wednesday, October 1, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Howard Thurman Center Live Fridays, Friday, October 3, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Hackathon for Health Equity; Saturday, October 4th, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Faculty Welcome (Back) Reception: Hosted by the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff and BU Diversity & Inclusion; Tuesday, October 7th, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Nursing in the Community: Nurse-Led Clinics & The Politics of Community Health in the 1960s & 1970s; Tuesday, October 7th, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
- Faculty & Staff Community Lunch: Hosted By Diversity & Inclusion and Faculty & Staff of Color Alliance; Wednesday, October 8, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
- Taking the Population Control out of Reproductive Health Measurement; Thursday, October 9th, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
- Faculty & Staff Community Lunch: Hosted by the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff and BU Diversity & Inclusion; Tuesday, October 14th, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
- Research on Tap: AI for Life Sciences; Wednesday, October 15, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Strategic Communications: From Complexity to Clarity; Thursday, October 16, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Supporting Careers of Faculty with Caregiving Responsibilities; Monday, October 20, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Research on Tap: Parkinson Disease: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond; Thursday, October 23, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease; Thursday, October 23, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
- The Climate Crisis and the Future of Infectious Diseases; Thursday, October 30, 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm
- Research on Tap: Engineering the Future of Surgery; Thursday, October 30, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Opportunities from the National Council on Faculty Development and Diversity:
- How to Engage in Healthy Conflict; Thursday, October 9, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Virtual Writing Session; Tuesday, October 21, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
- Building Strong Peer Communities: A Resource for Leadership and Advancement; Thursday, October 30, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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