SPH Snapshot: Fall 2019 Orientation.

The School of Public Health welcomed its new students with a week of orientation activities held August 26-30.

The incoming students toured the campus and beyond. A bus tour led them through the history of Boston’s neighborhoods and the health disparities that can exist a few blocks apart. They visited the Woods-Mullen Shelter, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, and the Boston Medical Center roooftop farm.

A field service day brought groups of students to lend a hand at Pine Street Inn, St. Francis House, and Daily Table.

New students also met and heard from faculty, staff, and alumni. They discussed this year’s SPH Reads book, The Desire to Heal: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry, participated in a forum with Dean Sandro Galea on defining public health, and got to know each other over meals and at a local pub.

The school welcomed 312 students from 32 states and 18 countries.