SPH Snapshot: April 4-April 8.
Leslie Tellalian, assistant dean for lifelong learning, and Francisco Patino, assistant director for lifelong learning, celebrate Giving Day and SPH’s rise in rankings to No. 6.
How it started: Craig Andrade, associate dean of practice, gets a face full of pie to fulfill a fun Giving Day pledge.
Gwen Fairall, associate director of career advising, finds a friend at the Giving Day table.
Josée Dupuis, professor and chair of biostatistics, presents the 2022 L. Adrienne Cupples Award to to Michael Daniels, professor, chair, and Andrew Banks Family Endowed Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida.
Daniels recognized the late Dr. Cupples in his presentation on Bayesian machine learning for causal inference and missing data.
Dean Galea welcomes the SPH Alumni and Friends Reception at the State Room in Boston
The alumni event was among the first in-person gatherings of 2022.
Samantha Hall and Mark Hernandez enjoy the evening of networking among alumni, students, donors, and friends.
Nahid Bhadelia, director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research and associate director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, introduces the first panel discussion of the Public Health Conversation.
From left, Nahid Bhadelia; Angela Rasmussen, research scientist at Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan; Maria Sundaram, an associate research scientist, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute; Natalie Dean (CAS’09),
an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; and Rajeev Venkayya, chief executive officer at Aerium Therapeutics, and board member, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
From left, Matthew Fox (SPH’02,’07), a professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, BUSPH; Megan Ranney, professor of emergency medicine, Alpert Medical School, and academic dean, School of Public Health, Brown University; Krutika Kuppalli, medical officer for COVID-19 Health Operations, Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention in the Health Emergencies Program, World Health Organization; Jeffrey Shaman, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Tara Smith, Professor of Epidemiology, Kent State University
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The School of Public Health capped a week of wide-ranging events with its first in-person Public Health Conversation in two years, which featured assessments of what went right — and wrong — in handling the coronavirus pandemic, and how to reduce the risk of another pandemic, while preparing for the inevitable.
The week also included annual Giving Day festivities, the presentation of the 2022 L. Adrienne Cupples Award, and an Alumni and Friends Event overlooking the Boston skyline.
