Panel 1: Thursday, June 4, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Panel 2: Tuesday, June 9, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Keynote: Wednesday, June 17, 4:30 to 6 p.m.

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#TeachPublicHealth

Our biennial symposium, split across sessions over three weeks, on teaching public health will explore best practices in inclusive pedagogy. Speakers will address educational policies, course design, content, and other approaches that optimize learning for all students.

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FULL EVENT VIDEOS

PANEL 1

KEYNOTE

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Increasing Inclusivity

Facilitating Difficult Conversations

Promote Active Learning

The Role of HBCUs

Seek Accountability in Learning

Making Group Learning Work

Agenda

4 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.

OPENING REMARKS

Sandro Galea (@sandrogalea)

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Thursday, June 4

INCLUSIVITY IN COURSE DESIGN AND EDUCATIONAL POLICIES

4:30 p.m. – 4:35 p.m.

INTRODUCTIONS AND OPENING REMARKS

Sandro Galea (@sandrogalea)

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Lisa Sullivan

Associate Dean for Education, Boston University School of Public Health

4:35 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

PANEL PRESENTATIONS
This panel will explore what we should be doing to promote inclusivity in education.

Linda Alexander

Senior Associate Dean for Academic, Student and Faculty Affairs, West Virginia University; Chair of ASPPH Diversity and Inclusion Section

Erin Driver-Linn

Dean for Education, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

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Erin Driver-Linn, PhD, is Dean for Education and a member of the faculty in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. The Dean for Education position was newly created starting August 2018 to provide broad responsibility for all aspects of education at the School, including the Office of Education and the Office for Student Services. The Dean for Education provides dedicated strategic leadership for the educational activities of the Harvard Chan School, and plays a critical role in strengthening connections between SPH and other schools and offices across the University.

From 2012 to 2018, Dr. Driver-Linn served as founding director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), a ten-year, $40 million initiative to catalyze innovation and excellence in teaching and learning across the University. In this capacity she launched a program that provided funding and support for more than 100 innovation grants, developed active networks and consortia of faculty, academic professional staff, and students involved in teaching and learning, and organized signature teaching and learning events for the university. From 2008 to 2018, Erin also served as Associate Provost for Institutional Research, guiding the work of the Office of Institutional Research to produce internal and external research projects to support university priorities and to provide policy analysis and analytic support for University decision makers.

Before joining the Office of the President and Provost in 2008, Erin was Associate Director for Research at the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and taught in the Harvard Department of Psychology, where she received her PhD in experimental social psychology. Erin grew up in rural Arkansas and received a BA in Communication from the University of Arkansas. She is the recipient of a number of Distinction in Teaching Awards and the author of publications in Psychological Science and the American Psychologist, among others.

Janice Bowie

Director DrPH Program, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Raygine DiAquoi

Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Assistant Dean, Office of Diversity, Culture and Inclusion, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

Moderator: Yvette Cozier

Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Boston University School of Public Health

Tuesday, June 9

BEST PRACTICES IN TEACHING MORE INCLUSIVELY

4:30 p.m. – 4:35 p.m.

INTRODUCTIONS AND OPENING REMARKS

Sandro Galea (@sandrogalea)

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Lisa Sullivan

Associate Dean for Education, Boston University School of Public Health

4:35 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

PANEL PRESENTATIONS
This panel will examine how we can move towards inclusive teaching.

Viji Sathy

Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Special Projects Assistant to the Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of North Carolina

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Viji Sathy is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Special Projects Assistant to the Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is actively involved in instructional innovation and faculty development. She is a national expert in inclusive teaching, speaking widely around the country and writing on the topic. Her research involves evaluating the impact of innovative teaching techniques as well as retention in STEM. Sathy is also the Program Evaluator of the Chancellor’s Science Scholars an adaptation of the Meyerhoff Program that has successfully increased representation of underrepresented students in STEM PhDs. She regularly teaches undergraduate quantitative courses as course-based research experiences: statistics and research methodology as well as makerspace courses. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards for ecellence in undergraduate education and the campus’ Student’s choice for Best Professor at UNC. Prior to her current position at UNC, she worked at the College Board conducting research on the SATs and non-cognitive predictors of college success. Sathy completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC (B.S.1996) and her doctorate in psychometrics from UNC-Chapel Hill (Ph.D. 2003)

Sinead Younge, Danforth Endowed Professor, Department of Psychology, Morehouse College

India Ornelas, Associate Professor of Health Services, University of Washington

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Dr. India Ornelas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington and an Associate Member in Cancer Prevention at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She serves as the Director of the MPH Core, a new integrated first year curriculum. She received her bachelors in Health and Society from Brown University, her MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches and mentors graduate students on topics related to social determinants of health, health equity and community engagement. Her research focuses on understanding how social and cultural factors influence the health of communities of color, especially Latino immigrants and American Indians. She also collaborates with communities to develop and evaluate culturally relevant interventions in the areas of mental health, substance use and cancer prevention. She is a native of the Pacific Northwest and loves time in the outdoors with her 11-year-old son.

Rosalind Gregory-Bass

Chair and Associate Professor, Environmental and Health Sciences Program and Director, Health Careers Program, Spelman College

Moderator: Candice Belanoff

Clinical Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health

Wednesday, June 17

KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND REACTIONS FROM THE CLASSROOM

4:30 p.m. – 4:35 p.m.

INTRODUCTIONS AND OPENING REMARKS

Sandro Galea (@sandrogalea)

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Lisa Sullivan

Associate Dean for Education, Boston University School of Public Health

4:35 p.m. – 5:05 p.m.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Stakes is High: Embedding a Sense of Urgency in Public Health Education

Raul Fernandez

Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development

5:05 p.m. – 5:35 p.m.

STUDENT REMARKS
Students will share their experiences in the classroom and explore what has worked from a student perspective.

Moderator: Sophie Godley

Clinical Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health

5:35 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

MODERATED DISCUSSION AND Q&A