{"id":51932,"date":"2021-02-24T18:49:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=51932"},"modified":"2022-06-29T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T19:43:07","slug":"3-31-a-conversation-with-marylou-sudders-ssw78-mass-secretary-of-health-and-human-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/3-31-a-conversation-with-marylou-sudders-ssw78-mass-secretary-of-health-and-human-services\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Marylou Sudders (SSW&#8217;78), Mass. Secretary of Health and Human Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BU School of Social Work alumna Marylou Sudders (SSW&#8217;78), Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, joins a virtual conversation about COVID-19 testing and treatment, vaccine rollout, collaboration with state and federal partners, telehealth, and the evolution of community-based services.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Sudders oversees 12 agencies and the MassHealth program. Her work at HHS covers a wide range of issues, including: health coverage, child welfare, community-based services, and public health matters like the opioid epidemic and the COVID-19 public health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, Governor Baker appointed Secretary Sudders to head the COVID-19 Response Command Center, which leads a statewide response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation will be facilitated by Karen Holmes-Ward (COM), WCVB Director of Public Affairs, Community Services &amp; Host of \u2018CityLine.\u2019<\/p>\n<h5>DATE &amp; LOCATION<\/h5>\n<p>Wednesday, March 31, 2021 \u2013 4-5pm ET | Virtual<\/p>\n<h5>RECORDING<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2021\/04\/01\/a-conversation-with-marylou-sudders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Watch the recording here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note that you will be required to provide your name and email address in order to watch the recording.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"view-all-news-button\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">v<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU School of Social Work alumna Marylou Sudders (SSW&#8217;78), Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, joins a virtual conversation about COVID-19 testing and treatment, vaccine rollout, collaboration with state and federal partners, telehealth, and the evolution of community-based services. Secretary Sudders oversees 12 agencies and the MassHealth program. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14869,"featured_media":44783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7428,7435,7519,4057],"tags":[],"profile-tax":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51932"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53554,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51932\/revisions\/53554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51932"},{"taxonomy":"profile-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile-tax?post=51932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}