BU School of Public Health Celebrates 45 Years

In 1976, the School of Public Health was established within the School of Medicine sociomedical sciences and community medicine department. Now with more than 1,000 students, 10,000-plus alumni, and six departments, the school came in eighth in a recent US News & World Report ranking of best graduate schools. On November 18, more than 320 faculty, staff, students, alums, and friends, among them Robert Meenan (MED’72, Questrom’89), retired longtime SPH dean, and Robert A. Brown, BU president, marked 45 years of research, scholarship, and practice at an anniversary celebration at the Mandarin Oriental, Boston. SPH student scholarship recipients were honored during the evening: Dean’s Scholar Jose Antonio Requejo (SPH’22) (from left), Outstanding Scholar Samantha Burkhart (SPH’22), Dean’s Scholar Nicole Herrera (SPH’24), Dean’s Scholar Tomeka Frieson (SPH’23), and Robert F. Meenan Scholar Lesly Zapata (SPH’23), with Sandro Galea, SPH dean and Robert A. Knox Professor.

Photo by Dana Quigley