Health & Wellness.

BUSPH’s Wellness Program is designed to help support you in your health and wellbeing throughout your graduate school journey. Here, we believe that well-being should be inclusive, intersectional, and available to all in our community. If you are queer, black, in a larger body, trans, a person with disability, anything and anywhere in between- you belong. We know that there’s no one right way to feel well, and that taking care of ones’ self looks very different depending on life circumstances, personal preferences, current stressors, and so much more. We believe that well-being is all-encompassing; while well-being includes nutrition and movement, it also includes sleep, mental health, relationships, sexuality, anti-racism work, relationship to land, and everything in between. We take care of ourselves, and then that care translates to how we show up in the world for others. Happy to have you here, always feel free to reach out at sphwell@bu.edu.

Well-Being Videos

Well-Being Assessment + Resources

Meditation and Lactation Resources

Medical and Dental Insurance Information for Students

Past Newsletters

SPH Wellness Resources & Contact

Boston University Resources

Wellness Amidst Black Lives Matter Movement

Wellness Amidst Coronavirus

Mental, Social & Emotional Resources

Food Insecurity Resources

BU Resources

BUSPH Community Cupboard

The Community Cupboard is located on the Med Campus at 109 Talbot East in the student lounge for SPH students. Faculty, students, and staff are invited to contribute to the pantry by donating nonperishable items and canned foods. Donations can be brought to the Talbot front desk or cupboard. Students can utilize the cupboard as needed.

Med Campus Community Cupboard

The Community Cupboard is located on the Med Campus in L306 for students and post-doctoral fellows. It is stocked with canned and boxed foods, and some basic personal hygiene goods. To place an online order, please visit here. Orders must be submitted by Sunday at 11:59PM to be ready for pick up the following week. Once an order is placed, the student will receive a confirmation email with their order number (assigned by a Student Affairs staff member to assure anonymity).

Terrier Meal Share

The Terrier Meal Share program gives students the opportunity to donate meal points, and allows students in need to access these points. Boston University students in need because of an immediate, short-term lack of access or lack of financial resources to access food can complete a short form. Staff from the Dean of Students Office, University Service Center, or the Office of Financial Assistance will contact the students to discuss support, eligibility, and the process of obtaining meal assistance. If you’re going home early and/or anticipate you’ll have unused meal swipes, please consider donating them to Terrier Meal Share. BU Auxiliary Services provides a meal for every student swipe donated.

Wheelock Community Cares

Wheelock Community Cares endeavors to end food insecurity for Wheelock students; its doors are open to any BU student in need of support. Students can access Community Cares up to three times in a 30-day period utilizing a Kerberos-protected shopping form. Please note that Wheelock does not share the information of students utilizing Community Cares. Students use the online form to place an order that could contain food, toiletries, and menstrual products, depending on the student’s needs, and pick the items up at a specific time.

Sargent Choice Nutrition Center

Sargent Choice Nutrition Center offers expert consultations for meal planning that can help people with food intolerances or restrictions, athletes in training, and people who are looking to create healthier eating habits. Students qualify for a limited number of free consultations, but insurance may cover the cost of others.

Off-Campus Resources

Food Banks and Resources in the Boston area

The City of Boston Food Map
The Greater Boston Food Bank
Project Bread’s Food Source Helpline – comprehensive statewide hotline and referral services
Brookline Food Pantry
Boston Medical Center Preventative Food Pantry – get physician referral to take advantage of BMC-based food pantry
Massachusetts Women, Infants, & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program – support for women and children with an income eligibility scale; for US citizens or permanent residents
Massachusetts SNAP Program – updated food stamp program with income eligibility scale; for US citizens or permanent residents
City of Boston Food Resources Chatbot: Text ‘FOOD’ to 617-579-8238
Neighborhood Food Resource Guide – available in multiple languages

Affordable Groceries and Food Items

The Daily Table – grocery store in Dorchester, Roxbury and Cambridge
Fair Foods – provides $2 bags on groceries
Good and Cheap – free downloadable cookbook with recipes aimed at helping people prepare great meals on $4/day
Brandless online grocery store
Fenway Cares Food Boxes: Pick up a food box every other Wednesday at 3:30 PM
Boston Farmers Markets

Community Fridges

Physical Health Resources

Learning from Home

Environmental Resources

Staff/ Faculty-Specific Resources

Robyn Volcy-Lee, MPH

Wellness & Communications Manager

Email: sphwell@bu.edu

Social Media: @thegradlife_busph

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