Scenes from 40th Anniversary Gala.

The view from the State Room in downtown Boston.

From left: Former Dean Robert Meenan; Yana Kotlar; Warren Herreid II (inducted into the William Fairfield Warren Society at the gala); Dean's Advisory Board member John Howe III; alumna Jeannine Rivet ('81; inducted into the William Fairfield Warren Society at the gala); Margaret Kruk; Dean Sandro Galea; SPH Director of Development, Industry Beverly A. Brown; BU President Robert A. Brown; and Dean's Advisory Board Chair Joel Lamstein.

Wendy Mariner, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law.

Stern Chamblain, outreach specialist in Career Services, with Assistant Professor of Global Health Andrew Stokes and student Jessica Christian.

Recent graduate Debora Perez ('16).

BU President Robert A. Brown.

Joel Lamstein, chair of the Dean's Advisory Board.

Danza Orgánica, a social justice-oriented dance theater company based in Roxbury, performed part of a soon-to-premier piece, Running in Stillness, which confronts the effects of mass incarceration.

Janice L. Cooper of the Carter Center Liberia Mental Health Program received a Beyond Health Award.

Larry Kessler, founding director of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, also received a Beyond Health Award.

Kathryn Brinsfeld (’01), assistant secretary and chief medical officer for the US Department of Homeland Security, received a Distinguished Alumni Award.

Mark A. Keroack (‘00), president and CEO of Baystate Health, received a Distinguished Alumni Award.

A Distinguished Alumni Award also went to Hania Dawani (‘86), mental health and nursing consultant, faculty in health sciences at Higher Colleges of Technology, and adjunct professor at California State University, Northridge.