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\"AA recent School of Public Health Dean\u2019s Seminar on COVID-19<\/a> was held, appropriately, online. With public health experts\u2014including those on the panel\u2014recommending physical distancing to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, the only people in the room were the speakers and a few tech and media support staff.<\/p>\n

But 2,827 people watched live online, and hundreds more have watched the archived video since.<\/p>\n

Measures against the pandemic have emptied campus, possibly for the rest of the semester, but the work of the SPH community continues, leaning into online tools for classes, collaboration, and convening leaders to discuss COVID-19 and other pressing public health challenges.<\/p>\n

Starting on Thursday, March 26, SPH will host the first in a weekly, online Coronavirus Seminar Series.<\/p>\n

This first seminar, Mental Health in a Time of Crisis<\/a>, will include presentations from Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Sarah Lowe, assistant professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine; and Patricia Watson, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and senior educational specialist at the National Center for PTSD. (Register here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOur core responsibility remains to generate science and scholarship, to transmit that to our students, and to be part of shaping the public health conversation\u201d says Dean Sandro Galea.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a time when the world\u2019s attention is transfixed by COVID-19, the series aims to help us stay engaged with the state-of-the-science about the evolving pandemic, provide an opportunity for our students to engage with these issues, and create a forum where we can all learn together.\u201d<\/p>\n

SPH is also continuing to hold its previously-scheduled seminars, fora, and symposia, all online, and free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

First up, SPH will host the Public Health Forum\u2014TB: The Hidden Epidemic<\/a> online on World Tuberculosis Day, Tuesday, March 24. (Register here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Other upcoming events<\/a> will cover health law, surprise medical bills, nursing, and global gun violence, all digitally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are continuing to discuss other public health issues because public health, and our work, continues,\u201d Dean Galea says. \u201cThese events continue to provide an opportunity for our community to get together, bridging physical distancing, to maintain community cohesion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The upcoming events are online only, but SPH\u2019s events have long been live-streamed and recorded. As the population spends more time at home to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, perhaps with a greater interest in the work of public health than ever before, the archive of past events<\/a> makes for great viewing.<\/p>\n

\u2014Michelle Samuels<\/em><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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