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SPH Snapshot: Fall 2019 Orientation.

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  • Students learn about all of the resources and organizations at SPH.

  • New students take a tour of SPH and the medical campus.

  • Harold Cox, associate dean for public health practice, speaks to students during a session on Wednesday with SPH deans.

  • Dean Sandro Galea held a forum with students on Wednesday to define public health and discuss the priorities of the broader public health agenda.

  • SPH alums held a Q&A session with students on Wednesday to share tips and discuss their experience at SPH.

  • Students participated in a discussion of this year's SPH Reads book, The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry.

  • During a Practice Plunge event on Thursday, students went out into the South End community to experience public health in a real way.

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August 30, 2019
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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.

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