Boston University School of Public Health

Which Families Live the Longest? Biostatisticians Develop Formula to Find Them

Paola Sebastiani A team of researchers led by Boston University School of Public Health Biostatistics Professor Paola Sebastiani has developed a new formula for identifying families with exceptional longevity who can be targeted for research studies into genetic and other factors that contribute to long life and healthy aging. Read more...

Environmental Factors Sway Violence, Drug Use, Debra Furr-Holden Tells BUSPH Audience

Dr. Debra Furr-Holden "Disorder breeds disorder," read one of the slides that flashed on the screen at the Nov. 18 Public Health Forum, headlined: "Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention." Read more...

Radio Boston: Everything You Need to Know about H1N1, Featuring David Ozonoff

David Ozonoff Yes, says David Ozonoff, professor of environmental health at Boston University School of Public Health: If you have a chance to get the H1N1 vaccine, go get it. Read more...

BUSPH-based Prevention Research Center Receives Five-Year Grant to Continue Work

Robert Horsburgh The Partners in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center (PHH-PRC) -- a partnership between the BU School of Public Health, the Boston Housing Authority, the Boston Public Health Commission, and the Community Committee for Health Promotion -- has been awarded a five-year grant that will allow it to Read more...

MBTA Allows Boston's School Children to Be Heavily Exposed to Alcohol Advertising, SPH Study Finds

Michael Siegel While other cities have adopted bans on alcohol advertising on public transit systems, Boston's MBTA is allowing youths to be exposed heavily to such ads, some of which are designed to entice young people to drink, a new study by a team of Boston University School of Public Read more...

Widespread Chemicals May Affect Cholesterol Levels, Study Finds

A study by BU School of Public Health researchers, published ahead of print in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, suggests that polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) may affect serum cholesterol levels in people. Read more...

Three Earn BUSPH Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2009

Three BU School of Public Health alumni who have taken different routes to make their marks in global health have been honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2009. The awards, which are in their 21st year, recognize graduates who have made outstanding contributions to the field of public health on Read more...

Web-based Nutrition Program Reduces Health Care Costs for Employees with Cardiac Risk Factors, Study Finds

Researchers from the Boston University schools of public health and medicine have shown that an employer-sponsored, Internet-based diet and exercise program shows promise as a low-cost benefit to lower healthcare costs for those at higher risk for above-average healthcare costs and utilization, such as cardiac, hyperlipidemia, hypertension or diabetes patients. Read more...

Obesity, Weight Gain Affect Time-to-Pregnancy, BUSPH Study Finds

Lauren Wise Women who are overweight or obese, or who have gained excess weight since age 17, are more likely to have trouble getting pregnant than women who are of normal weight, according to a new study led by BU School of Public Health researchers. Read more...

Dupuis and Sebastiani to Present at Oct 28 Faculty Research Symposium

Join BU School of Public Health biostatistics professors Jos�e Dupuis and Paola Sebastiani as they present on current research projects at the Faculty Research Symposium on Wednesday, October 28 at noon. Members of the BUSPH community are invited to attend and learn about the diverse work their colleagues are doing Read more...

Meg Stone, MPH '04, Turns Fear into Power

Meg Stone (right) coaches an IMPACT student practicing self defense techniques on an instructor. Using make believe is not child's play for the men and women who take Meg Stone's IMPACT course. Read more...

BUSPH Experts Offer Insights, Data and Questions about H1N1 Virus

(l to r) Jean van Seventer, David Hamer and David Ozonoff. "If I tell you anything about the flu today, it'll be wrong tomorrow." Read more...

Study Finds Discontinued Pajama Flame Retardant Showing Up in Baby Products and Dust

Tom Webster A compound that was phased out of use as a flame retardant in children's pajamas 30 years ago because of health concerns is now being used in the foam padding of children's products and other furniture, a team of researchers including BUSPH environmental health associate professor Tom Webster Read more...

Grodin Named a Diplomate of Integrative Medicine Association

Michael Grodin BUSPH Professor Michael Grodin has been named a diplomate of the American Association of Integrative Medicine (AAIM), a professional group that advocates a holistic approach to medicine. Read more...

Sumiko Mekaru, BUSPH Doctoral Candidate, Receives Prestigious ASPH/CDC Award

Sumiko Mekaru Sumiko Mekaru, a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at BU School of Public Health, has been awarded a 2009 Environmental Health Scholarship from the Association of Schools of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health. Read more...

Oct. 24 Health Law Conference: Naked on the Net?

Electronic health records create exciting new opportunities and difficult challenges for sharing medical information and protecting personal privacy. Our existing patchwork collection of laws has not kept pace with the rapid roll out of Health Information Technology, spurred by the Stimulus Package (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). Read more...

Oct. 14 Public Health Forum: A Primer on Swine Flu

This past spring, the A(H1N1) influenza virus, also known as swine flu, emerged in Mexico and quickly spread worldwide so that by June 11, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan announced that the outbreak had officially reached global pandemic levels. On Wednesday, October 14, join BU School of Public Health faculty members Read more...

To Close Schools -- or Not -- During Flu Outbreaks: BUSPH Researcher Helps Find a Formula

Al Ozonoff More than 700 schools were closed down when the H1N1 flu first struck last spring, including a number of schools in the Greater Boston area. Read more...

Study Finds New Genetic Loci Associated with Bone Mineral Density

� Adrienne Cupples Researchers have identified 13 new genetic loci that are associated with bone mineral density, an important clinical indicator for osteoporosis, according to a new study published online in Nature Genetics that was co-authored by Adrienne Cupples, a BUSPH biostatistics professor. Read more...

Annas: Don't Force Medical Pros to Get H1N1 Vaccine

The New York State Health Commissioner's new mandate that all health care workers be vaccinated against both the seasonal and the swine flu "could qualify as the major public health blunder of the year, because it is likely to backfire," BUSPH Professor George Annas writes in an op-ed column in Read more...

Voices: IH Students Share Practicum Work at Poster Session

On September 18, students from the International Health Department at BU School of Public Health presented posters on their practicum experiences at the Fall 2009 Practicum Share Fair. The practicum -- a required professional public health experience for masters of public health candidates -- brought students all over the world Read more...

Study Finds Women Believe Heredity Is Main Cause of Breast and Colorectal Cancer

Catharine Wang Many women are unaware or skeptical that cancer risk is modifiable through lifestyle behavior changes, and such misconceptions should be addressed through public education efforts, according to a new study led by a BU School of Public Health faculty member. Read more...

BU's Black Women's Health Study Receives $9.1 Million Funding

The Black Women's Health Study (BWHS) of the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University has received a five-year continuation of a grant award from the National Cancer Institute. The $9.1 million award will cover years 16 to 20 of a large follow-up study of the health of African-American women. Read more...

Emily George, MPH '09, Shares Practicum Experience through Podcast on Child Slavery

Emily George and one of the children rescued from slavery by Touch a Life In Ghana, which passed a law in 1998 making it illegal for children under 15 to work, as many as 25 percent of children younger than 15 were believed to be working and receiving little to Read more...

Study: Poor Shoe Choices Put Women at Risk for Foot Pain Later in Life

Women should think twice before buying their next pair of high-heels or pumps, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife, some of whom are affiliated with the BU School of Public Health. Read more...

Oct. 19 Sol Levine Lectureship on Society and Health: Risks of Communicating Genetic Risks

Theresa Marteau On October 19, join Theresa Marteau, PhD, as she presents the annual Sol Levine Lectureship on Society and Health. Her lecture, The Risks of Communicating Genetic Risks: Three Fallacies and a Challenge, will address common misconceptions about the consequences of communicating genetic risks to individuals, including the idea Read more...

Good Public Policy on Preemption Emerges from Tragic Facts, Annas Writes in NEJM

George Annas Federal regulatory approval of a drug or medical device should not pre-empt citizens from seeking recourse through state courts for injuries they receive when manufacturers do not adequately warn of potential dangers, BU School of Public Health Professor George Annas argues in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more...

Annas Weighs in on Right to Health in Hastings Center Report

Professor George Annas That the world s richest country has yet to establish a right to health is both paradoxical and unconscionable, BUSPH Professor George Annas writes in the latest issue of the Hastings Center Report. Annas, professor and chair of health law, bioethics & human rights, recounts efforts by Read more...

BU Expands Investment in Global Health

New Enterprise Builds on Long-Standing SPH Efforts and Commitment Read more...

Christina Severin, '95, Details Progress and Challenges of Universal Health Coverage at Forum

Christina Severin Massachusetts has been making good on its promise of universal health coverage, but significant challenges remain, according to Christina Severin, a BUSPH alumna who is president of Network Health, a managed-care organization that provides state-subsidized or state-financed coverage to thousands of residents. Read more...

Sept. 9 Public Health Forum: Making Good on Universal Health Coverage in Massachusetts

Christina Severin On September 9, join Christina Severin, MPH '95, as she discusses universal health care coverage in Massachusetts. Read more...

Grodin Honored for Commitment to Public Health and Justice

Michael Grodin Michael Grodin, professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at BU School of Public Health, was recently awarded the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Diversity Council Justice Award in recognition of his "dedication to peace, justice, public health and human rights." The Diversity Council is an advisory Read more...

Kenya Study Finds Gender Differences in Productivity for Workers Treated for HIV

Bruce Larson Before 2004, workers at a large tea plantation in the southern Rift Valley Province of Kenya who contracted AIDS were likely to die within a year. But those odds have changed dramatically since the introduction of an HIV/AIDS treatment program that provides free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to the Read more...

Lopez Urges Public Health Professionals to Learn from Urban Renewal Era

Russell Lopez Public health professionals should remember and learn from their complicity in the tragic legacy of urban renewal, in order to avoid making the same mistakes again, Russell Lopez, adjunct assistant professor of environmental health, writes in the American Journal of Public Health. Read more...

Gulf War Veterans Health Complaints Should Be Taken Seriously, White Tells Congress

Roberta White Just as Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder based largely on self-reported symptoms, so, too, should the physical complaints of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War be taken seriously, BUSPH Associate Dean for Research Roberta White told a U.S. House Veterans' Affairs subcommittee Read more...

GHI Distinguished Scholar Highlights Merits of Research Collaborations

Jerry Keusch speaks at a seminar on "Future Challenges: Science, Diplomacy and Development" at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Even when governments are at odds, international scientific partnerships can endure when researchers see common challenges and join forces to solve them. Read more...

Feinberg: Pediatric Visits Offer a Venue for Identifying Maternal Depression

Emily Feinberg The pediatrician’s office is an appropriate setting to screen mothers of young children for depressive symptoms, but providers treating low-income, minority women need to proceed in ways that allay mothers’ fears, according to a study led by Emily Feinberg, assistant professor in the Community Health Sciences Department Read more...

Emily Rothman Receives Grant to Study Underage Drinking and Teen Dating Violence

Emily Rothman Emily Rothman, a BUSPH assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, has received a five-year, $825,000 grant to study the relationship between underage alcohol use and dating violence perpetration. Read more...

Annas on Medical Ethics and Guantanamo Bay: Time for Reform

Professor George Annas A Pentagon review of conditions at the Guantanamo Bay military prison is flawed because it fails to address the quandary of military physicians who are called on to force-feed prisoners or to engage in other actions that flout medical ethics, BUSPH Professor George Annas and a Read more...

Visiting Scholar Zulfiqar Bhutta Among Experts to Lead Seminar on Future of Global Health

Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, a longtime collaborator with BU’s Center for International Health and Development and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Aga Khan Medical University in Pakistan, will be visiting BUSPH as a Global Health Initiative (GHI) Distinguished Scholar in Global Health. Read more...

Alzheimer's Risk: Would You Want to Know?

Robert Green Adrienne Cupples Clara Chen When people learn they are predisposed to Alzheimer's disease, any depression or anxiety is not long lasting, a new study co-authored by BUSPH researchers shows. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is one of the first to Read more...

Clapp, Other Experts Say Obama Cancer Plan Should Emphasize Prevention

Richard Clapp Environmental Health Professor Richard Clapp has joined other scientific experts in urging Congressional leaders to enact reforms to boost cancer prevention efforts, including adoption of a national policy to reduce carcinogenic exposures by at least half during the next decade. Read more...

Annas Weighs In On Bioidentifiers and Privacy Protections

George Annas The collection and retention of DNA samples, DNA profiles and even lowly fingerprints are issues that should stir analysis and debate in the U.S., especially in the wake of a court ruling that found the United Kingdom's laws governing the retention of such biomarkers violate privacy rights, BUSPH Professor Read more...

Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Pregnancy Reduces Risk of Upper Respiratory Tract Infection, New Study Finds

Martha Werler Consumption of at least seven servings a day of fruits and vegetables moderately reduced the risk of developing an upper respiratory tract infection in pregnant women, a new study by researchers at BU's Slone Epidemiology Center shows. The study, led by Martha M. Werler, professor of epidemiology Read more...

Tristram Blake, MPH 79, Dedicates Four Decades to Community Health in Boston

Tristram Blake, MPH '79 After 38 years as the executive director of the South End Community Health Center in Boston, Tristram Blake, a member of the first graduating class at BU School of Public Health, has seen a minor revolution in how his community’s health care needs are Read more...

Military Should Take Stronger Steps to Combat Tobacco Use, Report Says

Wendy Mariner The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs should implement a comprehensive strategy to achieve the Defense Department’s stated goal of a tobacco-free military, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine written by a committee that includes BUSPH professor Wendy Mariner. Read more...

One For the Road: Retiring, Pat Hynes Receives Environmental Award

Patricia Hynes BUSPH Professor of Environmental Health Patricia Hynes, MS, who will retire from BUSPH this month, has been honored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of New England with the Career Environmental Merit Award. This award recognizes Hynes' extensive work in "supporting environmental justice for disadvantaged communities and Read more...

Study Finds Gender Differences in Veterans' Mental Health Service Use

Younger women veterans with substance abuse problems, post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health diagnoses were significantly less likely to utilize specialized Veterans Health Administration (VHA) mental health services in 1999, after the first Gulf War, than their male counterparts, a study led by BUSPH researchers has found. Read more...

New Student Journal Gives Insight into International Work of BUSPH Students and Faculty

BU School of Public Health students and faculty in the International Health department have recently developed a new journal entitled The Movement, focusing on current global health issues and the BU community's involvement in them. The Movement is intended to promote communication between students and faculty in BUSPH Read more...

Professor Wayne LaMorte Wins First BUSPH Educational Innovation Award

Wayne LaMorte Wayne Lamorte, Boston University School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and assistant dean of education, was presented with the first BUSPH Educational Innovation Award, given as part of the John McCahan BU Medical Campus Education Day held Monday, June 22, on the Medical Campus. Read more...

Rothman Recognized for Excellence in Work-Family Research

Emily Rothman An article by BU School of Public Health faculty member Emily Rothman and colleagues was selected as one of the best 20 articles of 2008 in the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research competition. By highlighting the "best of the best," the Kanter Award raises Read more...

Total Knee Replacement Is Cost-Effective in Older Adults, Study Finds

Total knee replacement appears to be a cost-effective procedure for older adults with advanced osteoarthritis, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine led by Elena Losina, PhD, an adjunct associate professor of Biostatistics at BU School of Public Health. Read more...

Renee Johnson Receives Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Study Experiences of Gay and Lesbian High School Students

Renee M. Johnson Renee M. Johnson, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the BU School of Public Health, has received a $75,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to examine violence experienced by lesbian, gay and bisexual youth in Boston Read more...

Parental Dementia Associated with Memory Problems in Middle-Aged Offspring, Study Finds

Alexa Beiser A BU study co-authored by a School of Public Health researcher that indicates that children of parents with dementia can develop memory problems in middle-age -- much earlier than the typical onset of dementia -- was presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Academy Read more...

Citalopram No Better Than Placebo for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Study Finds

Lisa Sullivan Citalopram, a medication commonly prescribed to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), was no more effective than a placebo at reducing repetitive behaviors, according to a research team that includes Lisa Sullivan, chair and professor of Biostatistics and associate dean for education at BUSPH. Read more...

Glantz and Annas Take Aim at Handguns, Health and the Second Amendment

George Annas (left) and Leonard Glantz When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the District of Columbia's law barring residents from keeping loaded handguns at home violated the Second Amendment, gun-ownership advocates had reason to celebrate. Read more...

Abreu to be Honored for Giving Liberty a Hand

Milagros Abreu, MD, MPH, a research associate in Epidemiology at BU School of Public Health, will be honored June 2 by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition for creating the Latino Health Insurance Program. MIRA will present her with a 2009 Give Liberty a Hand Award for Read more...

Perceived Racism Is Factor in Weight Gain, New Study Finds

Yvette Cozier Experiences of racism may contribute to weight gain and obesity among black women in the U.S., according to a new study by researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center. Read more...

White Offers Testimony on Gulf War Illness to Congressional Committee

Roberta White Eighteen years after researchers at the BU School of Public Health and the Boston VA first began probing Gulf War veterans' health problems, clear connections have been made between veterans' symptoms and exposure to neurotoxins, BUSPH's Roberta White said in written testimony submitted to a Congressional committee Read more...

Study Links Early Onset of Menstruation to History of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Lauren Wise African-American women who were younger at menarche, or the onset of their menstrual periods, were more likely to report a history of childhood sexual abuse, according to a new study led by Lauren A. Wise, ScD, an epidemiologist at the Slone Epidemiology Center and assistant professor of Epidemiology Read more...

SER Presents Epi DSc Student with Lilienfeld Prize

Jaimie Gradus   Jaimie Gradus, an Epidemiology DSc student who graduated this Sunday, has been awarded the Lilienfeld Student Paper Prize by the Society of Epidemiologic Research for her paper "The Association between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Completed Suicide in the Adult Population of Denmark." The Lilienfeld Prize honors excellence Read more...

EH Graduate Receives First Annual Leonard Glantz Award

Sarah White is the recipient of the first annual Leonard Glantz Award for Academic Excellence. The first annual Leonard Glantz Award for Academic Excellence will be presented to Environmental Health concentrator Sarah White at the BU School of Public Health 2009 Commencement Ceremony. Read more...

CDC Malaria Chief Brings Hope and Hard Truths to BUSPH Forum

Dr. Laurence Slutsker, chief of the Malaria Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With 78 countries eliminating malaria in the last 60 years, and 39 more working towards elimination, are we on the path to a malaria-free future? Read more...

Annas Argues for Human Subject Protections in Global Clinical Research

George Annas Post-World War II ethical standards for clinical research have not effectively protected human subjects, but a recent court opinion in a high-profile case against Pfizer significantly strengthens such protections, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine by BUSPH Professor George Annas. Read more...

Study Finds E-mail Could Keep Domestic Violence Survivors Connected with Shelters

Emily Rothman Battered women's shelters, which historically have had difficulty maintaining contact with women after they leave, should consider using e-mail to stay in touch with domestic violence survivors, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher. Read more...

Cabral Participates in Sun Protection Study Involving Quincy Students

Howard Cabral Showing middle-school students ultraviolet photographs that reveal the sun damage to their faces makes them less likely to get sunburns in the months afterwards, according to a BUSM research study that was co-authored by Howard Cabral, an associate professor of Biostatistics at BUSPH. The study, published in Read more...

Students Turn Assignments into Cash for Global Health Charities

A spring flower sale, "Flowers for Food," benefited the Brookline-based SHARED, Inc.'s Seeds of Change Project developing community gardens in Lesotho. Pictured from left to right are MPH students Colleen Longacre, Shaheja Sitafalwalla, Sarah Hurlburt, Kristine Morin, and Emily Bearse. At the close of the semester, when most Read more...

Two BUSPH Students Named Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows

Ruzan Avetisyan (left) and Keren Shani (right) have be named 2009 Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows. Two BU School of Public Health students have been named Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows for 2009. Ruzan Avetisyan, a Health Policy and Management doctoral student, and Keren Shani, a master's of public Read more...

SB Chair Bowen Accepted into Executive Leadership Program

Deborah Bowen Deborah Bowen, PhD, Chair and Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the BU School of Public Health, has been accepted into the 2009-2010 class of Fellows in the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. Read more...

Public Health Forum Speaker Deborah Allen: Benefits of Medical Home Approach Are Vast

Deborah Allen Public health practitioners should support a broad view of the "medical home" model that promotes linkages between a patient's health and the social circumstances that influence health outcomes. Read more...

Biostats Student Wins Dean's Award at BU Science and Engineering Day

Nadia Timofeev (right) and her advisor, Professor Paola Sebastiani. Nadia Timofeev, a doctoral candidate in Biostatistics, has won the BU School of Public Health Dean's Award, presented at the 2009 BU Science and Engineering Day, for work she is doing to develop an algorithm that will help researchers use Read more...

Christine Zachek, MPH 09: Helping to Get the Word Out to Workers about Asthma Risks

Christine Zachek presents her poster on the link between asthma and cleaning products. Christine Zachek didn't come to the BU School of Public Health expecting to become an expert on the fine points of Clorox, Comet or hospital-grade disinfectants. Read more...

New Study Finds Hospital Practices Strongly Impact Breastfeeding Rates

Eugene Declercq Hospital practices, such as supplementing newborns with formula or water or giving them pacifiers, significantly reduce the chances that mothers who intend to exclusively breastfeed will achieve that intention, according to a new study led by a BU School of Public Health researcher. In the study, which appears Read more...

Mar. 27 Pike Conference to Examine Science, Law and Public Policy of Autism

With the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders rising -- the Centers for Disease Control reports that one in every 150 children born in the United States has an ASD -- a host of questions are raised on the scientific, legal and public policy issues surrounding the disorders. This year’s Pike Read more...

Annual Madness Against Malaria Competition Kicks Off With Celtics Honor

Jessica Kraft poses with Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo (left) and Memphis Grizzlies forward Rudy Gay (right) at the TD Banknorth Garden. As BU School of Public Health’s Madness Against Malaria team vies for its third straight championship this spring, its efforts to prevent the disease were honored Friday Read more...

Researchers Discover Ways of Integrating Treatment of Traumatized Tibetan Refugee Monks

Michael Grodin (right) has been working with Yeshe Togden (left), a Tibetan refugee monk, at the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights. Combining Eastern and Western medicine is the best way to ease post-traumatic symptoms among the Tibetan refugee monks who have come to the Boston Center Read more...

Head of NIH Fogarty International Center Pushes Ambitious Agenda at Public Health Forum

Roger Glass at the BUSPH Public Health Forum. When Dr. Roger Glass traveled to Zanzibar in 2007 with a U.S. delegation that included Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, he got a lesson in the importance of the long-term sustainability of global health initiatives. Read more...

Top State Healthcare CEO Named 2009 BUSPH Commencement Speaker

Cleve Killingsworth Cleve Killingsworth, chairman and chief executive officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, will address graduates and their families this May at the School's 2009 commencement exercises. Mr. Killingsworth is a nationally recognized leader in healthcare management who has earned a reputation as an innovative manager, dynamic Read more...

Health Insurance Is Only Part of the Story: New Publication by Catalyst Center

Rylin and David Rodgers were in good financial standing before they had children. Both teachers, they had a combined yearly income of $60,000, owned their own home, and had no consumer debt. Then their son, Matthew, and daughter, Laura, were born with an unidentified type of mitochondrial disease, a life-limiting, Read more...

SPH Researchers Find Differences in Birth Outcomes among Unmarried Mothers

Eugene Declercq Unmarried women without partners have a higher risk of giving birth to premature infants than unmarried women with partners -- a finding that leads two Boston University School of Public Health researchers to argue that marital status should be more clearly delineated in order to gauge who is Read more...

Mathematician Nick Patterson to Tackle Genomics in Mar. 12 Lecture

Nick Patterson On March 12 join Nick Patterson, senior computational biologist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT , as he talks about genome wide association scans in samples that are admixed or contain related individuals. The lecture is part of a seminar series hosted by the Biostatistics department. Read more...

Classes Canceled at BUSPH, Monday, March 2

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Boston University School of Public Health is Closed to Staff

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Mar. 11 Public Health Forum: Global Health in the Twenty-first Century

Roger Glass On March 11, join Roger Glass, MD, PhD, at the SPH Public Health Forum as he speaks on the topic, "Global Health in the Twenty-first Century: New Directions and Perspectives from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health." Read more...

White Patients Benefit More Than Blacks in Surviving Surgical Complications at Teaching Hospitals, Study Finds

Amy Rosen Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at non-teaching hospitals, but these better survival rates occur in white patients, not black patients, according to a study co-authored by a BUSPH researcher. Read more...

Study Finds Parental Smoking Bans at Home Influence Youths Future Choices

Alison Albers Youths who grow up in households with smoking bans are more likely to move into smoke-free residences once they leave home, according to a recent study led by BU School of Public Health researchers. Read more...

Public Health Forum Focuses on Top 10 Advances of Last Half-Century

Frances Miller talks about advances in public health rights. Before she unveiled her list of the "Top 10 public health rights' gains of the past 50 years," BU Professor Frances H. Miller issued this disclaimer: "I'm a lawyer, and lawyers look at things a little differently than other people Read more...

BU Today Video: SPHs Siegel and Cox Discuss New Ban on Tobacco Sales

Michael Siegal (left) and Harold Cox talk about new ban on tobacco sales. This week, the city of Boston enacted a ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies and on college campuses. The measure was the latest in a string of government regulations aimed at restricting smoking in public places, including Read more...

BU Today: BU Among Top Feeder Schools for the Peace Corps

Shanna Smith Solla (left) poses with a friend in Honduras. In this year's Peace Corps rankings, BU is at the top of the list among graduate schools with alumni serving as volunteers, with 17 alums currently serving. SPH graduates are helping to fuel those numbers, according to Joe Anzalone, senior Read more...

Modern Wars Pose New Dilemmas, BUSPHs Grodin Tells Students

Michael Grodin On paper, the rules of war are clear: Civilians must not be intentionally harmed, medical personnel should be protected, and the reasons for waging war must be just. But today's wars -- many of them civil conflicts -- defy the textbook version of war as a clash between Read more...

Fall 2008 Teaching Awards Announced

At the January BUSPH Faculty Assembly, eight professors were presented with Teaching Awards in recognition of their teaching excellence. The recipients are selected based on student evaluations completed at the conclusion of every course. Awards are presented to faculty whose course ranked within the top 8 to 10 percent. Included Read more...

Alumni Profile: Rohit Ramchandani, MPH 06, Joins in Global Initiative to Quash Malaria

Rohit Ramchandani Rohit Ramchandani knows firsthand the countless directions that a career in international health can take him. By the time he began working towards his master of public health degree at BU School of Public Health in 2004, he had already completed a World Health Organization internship at the Read more...

How Do Humans Become Immune to Malaria? Topic of Feb. 20 Lecture

Kevin Marsh On February 20, join Dr. Kevin Marsh, this year's Gijs van Seventer Lecturer in Immunology, as he explores the question "How Do Humans Become Immune to Malaria?" The lectureship is in tribute to Dr. Gijs van Seventer, an internationally recognized immunologist in the field of human T cell Read more...

BUSPHs Siegel Raps Trend Barring Smokers from Employment

Michael Siegal The increasing trend among employers to bar smokers from jobs may have unintended consequences that do more harm than good, Social & Behavioral Sciences Professor Michael Siegel and a colleague argue in an essay published in the journal Tobacco Control. Read more...

Study Finds Digoxin Treatment Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

Use of the heart drug digoxin appears to increase the incidence of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to a study by a team of epidemiologists from the BU School of Public Health working with researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark. The study, published in the December issue of Breast Read more...

Practice Office Recruits Next Generation of Public Health Workers

Dr. Johnathan Woods answers the question “Why choose Public Health?” More than 100 high school students from in and around Boston visited the Boston University School of Public Health in early December to learn about public health . "New Faces in Public Health" was a day-long event sponsored by the Read more...

New Class of Public-Housing Health Advocates Ready to Reach Out

The new graduates of the Resident Health Advocate program, joined by program coordinators Tegan Evans and Joanna Rorie (front), received their certificates at a ceremony at BUSPH. After 14 weeks of intensive training in public health and leadership skills, eleven residents of Boston's public housing developments gathered at BU School Read more...

SPHs Emily Feinberg: Finding New Ways to Reach Out to At-Risk Mothers

Emily Feinberg Among the lessons that Emily Feinberg has gleaned from her years as a pediatric nurse at Dorchester House Multi-Service Center is this: Take notice of who accompanies babies to their first medical appointments. Read more...

Study Involving BUSPH Researchers Finds New Factors Influencing Blood Lipid Levels

Adrienne Cupples An international team that includes researchers from the BU School of Public Health has identified 11 novel locations in the human genome where common variations appear to influence cholesterol or triglyceride levels. The findings, published in the journal Nature Genetics, add to currently known variants and help to Read more...

Abreu to Be Awarded for Work toward Change and Inclusion

Milagros Abreu Milagros Abreu, MD, MPH, a post-doctoral fellow in Epidemiology at BU School of Public Health, is being recognized by COLOR Magazine for her contribution toward change and inclusion for minority populations. She will receive the publication's All-Inclusive Award in the Change Agent category on Thursday, December 11 at Read more...

Clapp Recognized by Silicon Valley Environmental Group

Professor Dick Clapp BU School of Public Health Environmental Health Professor Dick Clapp has received the "Helen Clark Award" from the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), an advocacy group based in San Jose, CA, that promotes environmental justice. Clapp received the award for "courage and dedication in the struggle for Read more...

Top Indian Health Official Pushes for Partnerships During BU Visit

Dr. Nirmal K. Ganguly Dr. Nirmal K.Ganguly comes from a country grappling with tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, a growing epidemic of non-communicable diseases, a critical shortage of doctors in rural areas, and a fledgling health-insurance system that covers only a small fraction of the population. But when it comes Read more...

Building a Collaboration: Ideas Exchanged, Partnerships Explored at USA-Chinese Public Health Conference in Shanghai

Dean Meenan addresses the 2008 Sino-USA Academic Forum on Public Health in Shanghai. A delegation of BUSPH faculty members headed up by Dean Robert F. Meenan traveled to Shanghai in late October to exchange ideas about health care and public health topics and to expand a growing collaboration with Read more...

Watch the 2008 William J. Bicknell Lecture on BUniverse

Rashi Fein, PhD, professor emeritus, economics of medicine, Harvard Medical School At this year's William J. Bicknell Lectureship in Public Health keynote speaker Rashi Fein, professor emeritus of medical economics at Harvard Medical School, laid out a proposal for what the next U.S. president's priorities should be for health Read more...

Genetic Screening No Better Than Traditional Risk Factors for Predicting Type 2 Diabetes, Researchers Find

Professor Adrienne Cupples Screening for a panel of gene variants associated with the risk for type 2 diabetes can identify adults at risk for the disorder, but is not significantly better than assessment based on traditional risk factors, such as weight, blood pressure and blood-sugar levels, a multi-institutional team that Read more...

Stay Away from the Presidents DNA: Annas and Green Discuss Genetics and Politics in NEJM Article

Professor George Annas The Presidential campaign is over, with little attention paid to John McCain's family history of heart disease or the death of Barack Obama's grandfather from prostate cancer. But with rapid advances in genomics, the next Presidential campaign could find candidates releasing information about their own DNA in Read more...

Prof. Alan Jette Receives Award from U-Florida Public Health School

Professor Alan Jette Alan M. Jette, PhD, professor of Health Policy and Management at the BU School of Public Health and director of BU's Health and Disabilities Research Institute, has been awarded the Darrel J. Mase Leadership Award from the University of Florida College of Public Health and Read more...

Global Food Crisis Brings Students Together at Annual Forum

Members of the organizations that sponsored the Town Hall Meeting: (l to r) Gina Marotto, Ryan Borg, Shruti Rangnekar, AJ Sanchez, and Rachel Pitek. One picture, projected onto a large screen in the darkened auditorium, drove home the point of the BU School of Public Health's 3rd annual Town Hall Read more...

SB Students Take on Public Health Outside of the Classroom at APHA

Students at the 2008 APHA annual meeting: (l to r) Alvin Kwong, potential MPH student; Jessica Ansong, SB; Traci Bethea, EH; Elizabeth Romero,SB; and Daniel Lau, SB. This year's annual meeting of the American Public Health Association brought together nearly 13,000 public health professionals from around the world to San Read more...

Researchers Study Race/Ethnicity in Outpatient Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment

A. Rani Elwy, Ph.D., assistant professor of Health Policy and Management Latino and non-Latino black clients report worse symptoms of psychiatric and substance-abuse disorders at intake than non-Latino whites, but race and ethnicity have no significant effect on the number of their outpatient treatment visits, BU School of Public Health Read more...

Schlichtmann of A Civil Action to Speak at Public Health Forum Nov. 12

Attorney Jan Schlichtmann Join attorney Jan Schlichtmann, Wednesday, November 12, at 12 p.m. as he discusses the challenges of establishing causation of an illness using medical and legal paradigms in a talk titled "Lawyer, Heal Thyself." In his talk, Schlichtmann will address models of defining illness that extend beyond classic legal Read more...

Sullivan Honored with ASPH/Pfizer Award for Teaching Excellence

Lisa Sullivan Saturday, October 25, Lisa Sullivan, BU School of Public Health professor and chair of Biostatistics, and associate dean for education, was presented with the 2008 ASPH/Pfizer Award for Teaching Excellence by the Association of Schools of Public Health and Pfizer. The award ceremony took place at a reception Read more...

Dean Meenan and BUSPH Faculty Head to Shanghai to Forge Academic and Research Ties

Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China Eager to firm up a partnership with their public-health peers in China, BU School of Public Health Dean Robert F. Meenan and six faculty members will travel to Jiao Tong University in Shanghai in late-October to speak at a health symposium and to work Read more...

Peru Research Shows Link Between Paternal Absence and Malnutrition

Kirk Dearden For BU School of Public Health researcher Kirk Dearden, whose interests include the social determinants of childhood under-nutrition and Latin America, tapping into the international Young Lives study has been like hitting the data jackpot. Read more...

Yvette Cozier Launches New Social Epidemiology Course

Yvette Cozier More than 2,400 years ago, Hippocrates urged medical researchers to look beyond the individual, to the social phenomena that affect the "mode of life of the inhabitants" -- everything from exposure to the wind to a community's eating habits. It's an old idea that has a new place Read more...

Experts, Advocates, Citizens Debate Health-Care Reform at 2008 Bicknell Lectureship

Bicknell Lecturer - Rashi Fein, PhD, professor emeritus, economics of medicine, Harvard Medical School   Against the backdrop of the nation's crumbling financial market, renowned medical economist Rashi Fein used the 2008 William J. Bicknell Lectureship at the BU School of Public Health to advocate for overhauling a broken Read more...

Health Law Experts Discuss Historys Lessons at Anniversary Conference

Micheal Grodin talks about using the Holocaust to teach human rights Sixty years after adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, academics should continue to glean lessons from the Holocaust to teach students about contemporary human rights issues -- as long as they proceed with caution, according to experts Read more...

International Health's Yesim Tozan Is Awarded Career-Boosting Peter Paul Professorship

Yesim Tozan Until this month, Yesim Tozan, PhD, an assistant professor of International Health, had been used to flying under the radar, quietly scrambling for grant opportunities to fund her research into childhood malaria. Now, she says, "I feel like I'm ready to roll!" Read more...

BUSPH Researcher Shares How $13 Changes Lives

Malawi youth BUSPH researchers are measuring the impact of Malawi Cash Transfer, a social welfare program in the southern African nation of Malawi. The program provides $13 a month to families in need, allowing them to buy food and medicine, send their children to school, and even start their own Read more...

New BUSPH Study Finds Elevated Breast Cancer Risk in Upper Cape Cod

Veronica Vieira, assistant professor of Environmental Health In a new study published in the International Journal of Health Geographics, four Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researchers using an innovative space-time analysis method found an elevated risk of breast cancer in upper Cape Cod for women living there from the Read more...

Declercq Examines Patterns of Doctoral Education in Public Health

Gene Declercq With a focus on practice, experienced public health professionals looking to excel in their fields have been increasingly seeking doctor of public health (DrPH) degrees. Since 2002, the number of students in DrPH programs has increased 40 percent. In recent years the number of universities offering DrPH programs Read more...

Clapp to Present at Presidents Cancer Panel Sept. 16

Richard Clapp Environmental Health Professor Richard Clapp will present a talk on avoidable occupational and environmental causes of cancer at the upcoming President's Cancer Panel session in East Brunswick, New Jersey, on Tuesday, September 16. The meeting will focus on environmental factors in cancer, addressing the effects of industrial pollutants, Read more...

Annas Takes on Military Medical Ethics

George Annas, professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights The global war on terror has posed ethical challenges for military physicians, but the Defense Department's position that its doctors "need not follow nationally and internationally accepted medical ethics" represents a significant -- and dangerous -- policy change, BU School Read more...

Pointing Fingers and Naming Names: "Poisoned Profits" Indicts Big Business for Polluting the Environment and Harming Childrens Health

Creating a stir in environmental health circles, recently published Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children (Random House), blames big business and chemical companies for introducing toxicants into the environment to the detriment of the health of American children. The book makes its case, in part, by telling heart-rending Read more...

BUSPH Researchers Work to Reduce Chinese Childrens Exposure to Secondhand Smoke

Abu Abdullah With a smoking rate among men topping 60 percent, China may have a generation's work ahead to start breaking the country's dependence on tobacco. In the meantime, researchers at BUSPH hope to find ways to minimize the adverse health effects of secondhand smoking on children. BUSPH researchers have Read more...

George Annas Participates in NEJM Video Roundtable on Controversial Infant Organ Retrieval

George Annas George Annas, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, recently participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by the New England Journal of Medicine to address key ethical issues on organ donation. Read more...

Massachusetts Medical Law Report Honors Professor Amy Rosen

Professor Amy Rosen Amy Rosen, professor of health policy and management at BUSPH and researcher at the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, was named a recipient of the "Rx for Excellence" award by the Massachusetts Medical Law Report. The award honors people in the Massachusetts medical community Read more...

BUSPH Pitches in to Help with States New Online Disease Surveillance Program

(l to r) Skyler Kelemen, Wayne LaMorte and J.J. Wang look over MAVEN As part of a national effort to centralize infectious disease surveillance, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) has developed an electronic database to replace paper-and-pen epidemiologic reporting between itself, laboratories, and the 351 local health departments Read more...

Biostatistics Anita DeStefano Appointed Associate Director of BUMC Genome Science Institute

Anita DeStefano Anita DeStefano, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics at BUSPH and associate professor of neurology at BUSM, has been named as one of two associate directors of the Boston University Medical Campus Genome Science Institute, a newly instituted collaborative aimed at unifying research and academic endeavors among BUMC faculty Read more...

Mariner Recognized for Teaching Excellence

Wendy K. Mariner , BUSPH professor of health law, bioethics and human rights and professor of law at BU Law, received the 2008 Jay Healey Distinguished Health Law Teacher Award in June at the Health Law Professors conference held at the new Drexel School of Law in Philadelphia. The award Read more...

Hynes and Lopez Publish New Environmental Health Textbook

Environmental Health faculty Professor Pat Hynes, MS, MA and Assistant Professor Russ Lopez, ScD, have edited a new environmental health textbook, Urban Health: Readings in the Social, Built, and Physical Environments of U.S. Cities, which will be published by Jones and Bartlett in October 2008. With more than half the Read more...

Wendy Mariner to Lead BU Faculty Council

Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights Professor Wendy K. Mariner will serve a two-year term as BU Faculty Council chair. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky Boston University Trustee Chair Alan M. Leventhal has announced that Wendy K. Mariner, the former vice chair of the BU Faculty Council, has succeeded Julie H. Read more...

Become an Effective Public Health Leader, Attend Seminar June 3

International Health Assistant Professor David Javitch Today's Public Health leaders are confronted with enormous opportunities and obstacles: people issues, budgets, conflicts, scarce resources, donor organizations, needy populations, etc. Managing these obstacles and capitalizing on the opportunities are critical in enabling leaders to make themselves and their organizations effective. Join International Read more...

Middle School Students Explore Organ Donation Ethics with Leonard Glantz

Twenty seventh-grade students from Ashland Middle School met with Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights Professor Leonard Glantz on April 30 to discuss the ethics of organ donation. Students are participants in an advanced academic program at the school, which is tackling a wide range of medical ethics issues this year. Read more...

BUSPH Commencement 2008!

2008 BUSPH Commencement (l to r): DSc recipients Patricia Ann Janulewicz, Lisa Garaffo Gallagher, Madeleine Lorna Kangsen Scammell, and Gregory John Howard. John Auerbach, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, presented the address at the thirtieth Commencement of Boston University School of Public Health, which was held Sunday, Read more...

Developing an Integrated Picture of Cancer Survivorship, Topic of May 21 Health Forum

Assistant Professor Catherine Alfano will speak at the May 21 Public Health Forum. Join Catherine Alfano, PhD, assistant professor at The Ohio State University's Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, Comprehensive Cancer Center, and College of Public Health, as she discusses the need to develop an integrated picture of cancer survivorship. Read more...

Environmental Health's Pat Hynes Speaks on Urban Public Health Issues

Professor Pat Hynes. In a series of invited talks and conference presentations, Environmental Health Professor Pat Hynes has addressed numerous facets of public health in an urbanizing world. On April 5, she spoke at Hampshire College on the unique impacts of war in cities, particularly the destruction of urban infrastructure Read more...

Photos from 2008 BUSPH Alumni Symposium: Controversies in Public Health

Maxwell Publishes New Environmental Health Textbook

Environmental Health Associate Professor Nancy Maxwell, DSc, has written a new environmental health textbook, Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World, which will be published by Jones and Bartlett in September 2008. The text takes a unique approach to presenting environmental health to students. Rather than organizing topics Read more...

Cultural Competency Topic of PHAM Spring Symposium April 16, 17

The BUSPH Public Health Alliance for Minorities (PHAM) presents Insights into Cultural Competency: Public Health, Medicine, and Development, April 16–17 at its annual spring symposium. The two-day event, which is free and open to the BUMC community, includes a panel discussion, a networking reception, and a screening of the new Read more...

Public Health Forum: Rise and Fall of Children's Health Coverage, the SCHIP Saga

Join Stan Dorn, JD, senior research associate at the Urban Institute, in a lively and controversial discussion of the history of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). For a decade, SCHIP provided federal matching funds to help states expand health care to uninsured children. Dorn will cover its rise and Read more...

MDPH Commissioner John Auerbach Named 2008 Commencement Speaker

John M. Auerbach, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, will address graduates and their families this May at the School's 2008 Commencement Exercises. Appointed in April 2007 by Governor Deval Patrick and Secretary of Health and Human Services Judyann Bigby, Commissioner Auerbach leads a department of 3,100 employees, Read more...

Teaching for Mastery Faculty Luncheon Workshop, New Date April 30

Faculty are invited to join Scotch Award winner Bill DeJong as he leads a Faculty Luncheon workshop on Mastery Learning. Mastery Learning is an instructional method that presumes students can learn if they are provided with the appropriate learning conditions. Specifically, mastery learning is a method whereby students are not Read more...

Statewide Hunger Summit Planned for March 27

Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, senior project manager of the Data Coordinating Center, is assisting in the planning of a statewide Hunger Summit for Thursday, March 27, with Governor Patrick's office, the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance, US Rep. McGovern (D-MA), and area health advocates (including Boston Medical Center's Medical-Legal Partnership). Read more...

Burgess Joins Editorial Board of Health Services Research

Associate Professor Jim Burgess, Department of Health Policy and Management, has joined the editorial board of Health Services Research (HSR). HSR, published by the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET), is an official publication of AcademyHealth, the organization for health services research and health policy. He was selected based on Read more...

Beyond the Classroom: MCH Professionals Share Career Advice, March 6

What skills does it take to succeed in the world of Maternal and Child Health? Join Ron Benham, director of Perinatal, Early Childhood, and Special Health Needs at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Anne Merewood, director of the Breastfeeding Center at Boston Medical Center, as they share their experiences Read more...

The Future of Health Law at Pike Conference: March 24

BU School of Law and SPH to Hold Conference on the Future of Health Law For the event's brochure in PDF format, click here. Read more...

BUSPH Celebrates Crosstown!

Members of the BUSPH community marked the opening of the Crosstown Center on Friday, Feb. 8, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the opportunity to make their own ice cream sundaes. The occasion was followed by tours of BUSPH offices on the third and fourth floors of the building. In addition, Read more...

EH's Scammell Completes Thesis Defense, Appointed to Chelsea Board of Health

Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, DSc Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, a newly minted DSc in Environmental Health, was recently appointed to the Chelsea Board of Health by the City Council. According to a news item in the Boston Globe, Scammell has lived in Chelsea for 10 years. She was recommended by City manager Read more...

Pandemic Planning: Civil Liberties vs. Government Action, Topic of March 19 Forum

"Pandemic Preparedness: Protecting Public Health and Civil Liberties" is the topic of the March 19 BUSPH Public Health Forum sponsored by the Department of Health Law Bioethics and Human Rights. Two distinguished law professors, Wendy Parmet, the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Northeastern University Read more...

Epidemiology Faculty Publish in American Journal of Public Health

Dan Brooks, assistant professor of epidemiology, and Robert Horsburgh, chair and professor of the department of epidemiology and director of the Partners in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center, recently published a paper in the American Journal of Public Health (click here to read the article) titled "Use of a Population-Based Survey to Read more...

Annas, Mariner Coauthor ACLU Report on Pandemic Planning and Civil Liberties

A recent American Civil Liberties Union report (download PDF here) coauthored by George J. Annas, Edward R. Utley Professor and chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at BUSPH, Wendy Mariner, professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at BUSPH, and Wendy Parmet, the George Read more...

HIV Crisis in South Africa, Topic of Feb. 6 Forum

Francois Venter, MD South Africa's HIV problem: Crisis? What Crisis? is the topic of the February 6, BUSPH Public Health Forum sponsored by the International Health department. Join Francois Venter, MD, president of the Southern Africa HIV Clinicians Society . Venter is also clinical director of the Esselen Street Clinic and Reproductive Health and Read more...

Weather Advisory: Monday, Jan. 14, 2008

**Weather Advisory: Monday, January 14, 2008** 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. classes will meet as scheduled. Read more...

Sullivan Publishes New Biostatistics Textbook

Biostatistics Professor and Chair Lisa Sullivan, PhD, has written Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, an introductory text for students with limited mathematical background. The text draws on the author's remarkable clinical experiences with the Framingham Heart Study and provides a fundamental and engaging background for students learning to apply Read more...

Hynes Serves as CDC Panelist; Recognized by HUD for IPM Training Success

Environmental Health Professor Pat Hynes served on the Healthy Homes Expert Panel that convened in Atlanta on Dec. 11 and 12. The panel, whose purpose is to weigh the strength of scientific evidence on housing interventions and health, is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control National Center for Environmental Health. Topics of Read more...

Biostatistics' Gupta to Discuss Bayesian Statistics at Indian Conference

Biostatistics Assistant Professor Mayetri Gupta will be speaking at the platinum jubilee of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India, January 1- 4. The conference is titled "International Conference on Statistical Paradigms-- Recent Advances and Reconciliations." Dr. Gupta's talk is titled "Prior elicitation and variable selection in high dimensional regression Read more...

BUSPH Biostatistics Faculty Rank Tenth Nationally in Scholarly Productivity

Biostatistics Associate Professor Howard Cabral and Biostatistics Chair Lisa Sullivan work with students at the Summer Institute of Biostatistics. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ranked faculty in the Boston University School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics as the tenth-most scholarly productive among biostatistics faculty at the nation’s top Read more...

Nutrigenomics: Toward Personalization of Dietary Recommendations, Topic of Dec. 12 Forum

Imagine successfully preventing and treating cardiovascular disease with changes in diet. Despite decades of active research and heated discussion, science cannot identify the optimal diet to achieve this goal. Popularly accepted options include a low fat diet as traditionally recommended by multiple medical societies; a high mono unsaturated fat diet Read more...

EH Faculty Receive Funding to Complete Work on Contaminated City Garden Soil

BUSPH Department of Environmental Health faculty members Associate Professor Wendy Heiger Bernays and Professor Pat Hynes have been awarded a $14,000 grant from the Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN) to complete work on the characterization and remediation of community garden soil contaminated with arsenic from pressure treated lumber and polycyclic Read more...

BUSPH Joins Boston institutions in Launching Two-Day Boston-India Symposium

(9.18.07) In a unique collaboration bringing together influential public health figures from Boston and India, Boston University School of Public Health faculty will join public health colleagues at Harvard, Tufts and MIT to host the Boston-India Symposium on Essential Interfaces in Public Health. The event will be held on Oct. Read more...

Environmental Health Prof. Hynes Hosts Rachel Carson Blog

(9.14.07) Environmental Health Professor Patricia Hynes has been invited to act as guest moderator of the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. Carson was American marine biologist and nature writer whose landmark book, Silent Spring, is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has Read more...

Rosenbloom Addresses Court Professionals on Addiction and Treatment

(9.11.07) Social and Behavioral Sciences Professor David Rosenbloom will speak at the New England Association of Drug Court Professionals Conference (NEADCP) about the HBO documentary, "Addiction." As part of the morning plenary session he will join executive producers John Hoffman and Susan Froemke, and Robert Ziemian the presiding justice of Read more...

Boston Globe Features Brooks' Smoking Cessation Program

(8.21.07) Epidemiology Assistant Professor Dan Brooks, DSc, spent three years working with public housing residents of South Boston's West Broadway Housing Development to encourage participation in a community program to stop smoking. According to the Boston Public Health Commission, South Boston residents are twice as likely to die of lung Read more...

Mass. Health Reform Law: Successes, Challenges Topic of Sept. 12 Forum

(8.20.07) Join BUSPH alumna Christie L. Hager, JD, MPH ‘91, as she speaks on "Massachusetts Health Reform Law: Origins, Accomplishments, Challenges, and What's Next?" at the next BUSPH Public Health Forum. Hager serves as Chief Health Counsel to Salvatore F. DiMasi, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Read more...

BUSPH Researcher Awarded Blue Ribbon by Pharma Outcomes Society

(7.10.07) Sheikh Usman Iqbal, MD, MPH, a research fellow working with Lewis Kazis, ScD, director of the Center for the Assessment of Pharmaceutical Practices, department of Health Policy and Management at BUSPH, was recognized at the 12th Annual International Meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). Read more...

BUSPH Students & Alumni-Faculty Participate in SER Meeting, EH Wins Award

(7.9.07) The 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) met June 19-22 at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel. A large number of past and present BUSPH students took part in the meeting as invited presenters, workshop participants, and symposium chairs. A total of 19 alumni-faculty and students from Read more...

Committee Publishes Reports on Water System Security

(7.6.07) The Committee on Water System Security Research, chaired by Environmental Health Professor and Chair Emeritus David Ozonoff, has released two reports regarding research and technical support in water and wastewater security. The committee functions as a part of the Division on Earth and Life Studies National Research Council of Read more...

16 BUSPH Faculty Receive Spring 07 Teaching Awards

(6.22.07) BUSPH teaching excellence was acknowledged at the June faculty meeting where 16 professors received awards. At the conclusion of every course, BUSPH students rank professors and their respective courses across a series of criteria. The top ranked 8-10% receive award certificates. These faculty and their courses represent a broad Read more...

Environmental Health Programs Honored at State House Ceremony

(6.22.07) Boston University's School of Public Health Center for Healthy Homes and Neighborhoods received a 2007 Champion of Toxics Use Reduction Award from UMass Lowell's Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI). This annual Award honors leaders who have used innovative and collaborative approaches to reduce toxic chemical use throughout Massachusetts. Read more...

Second Edition of Aschengrau's Text Published

(6.18.07) The second edition of Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health by BUSPH Epidemiology Professor and Associate Chair Ann Aschengrau, ScD, has been published. Written in collaboration with Harvard School of Public Health Associate Professor of Epidemiology George Seage, ScD, the text is notable for its clear and simple exposition. Read more...

Doctoral Candidate Takes Student Award at International Workshop on Toxic Chemicals

(6.11.07) Environmental Health doctoral candidate Joseph Allen won the Jansson and Bergman Student Award at the Fourth International Brominated Flame Retardant (BFR) Workshop in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The workshop was held April 24-27, 2007. Allen presented his research on polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a toxic flame retardant frequently found in consumer products Read more...

BUSPH Doctoral Candidate Awarded Switzer Fellowship

(6.11.07) Jessica Nelson, a doctoral student in the Environmental Health department has been awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship for 2007/2008. This prestigious fellowship supports graduate students whose studies are directed toward improving environmental quality and who demonstrate leadership in their field. Nelson's research centers on biomonitoring, the practice of measuring Read more...

Maine Speaks on Safe Motherhood Initiative

(6.6.07) International Health Professor Deborah Maine gave the keynote speech at the opening reception of the annual Global Health Council conference held in Washington DC, May 29 - June 1. The reception commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, an international effort to reduce deaths of women during Read more...

Boston Globe

5/28/07 As deadly as ever, avian flu proves a persistent foe Quotes Environmental Health Chair Emeritus and Professor David Ozonoff Read more...

Washington Post

5/27/07 Critical Care Without Consent Quotes Health Law Bioethics Ethics and Human Rights Chair and Professor George Annas Read more...

Raymond Named Woman of the Year for Work to End Sex Trade

(5.30.07) Janice Raymond, adjunct professor of international health, received the International Woman of the Year Award from the Zero Tolerance Trust in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday, May 19, for her work as director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). CATW works on every continent and with the United Read more...

BUSPH Study Cites Over-use of Antimalaria Drugs

(5.30.07) Health care workers in Zambia are over-prescribing anti-malaria drugs, threatening the long-term viability of the medicines, according to a study by Davidson Hamer, MD, associate professor of international health, published in the May 23/30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Hamer's study shows that when Read more...

Assoc. Prof. Webster & Doctoral Candidate Nelson Present on Biomonitoring

(5.30.07) BUSPH Environmental Health Associate Professor Tom Webster and Environmental Health doctoral candidate Jessica Nelson led a forum, "Measuring Chemicals in People: Promise and Pitfalls," on Wednesday, May 30, 6 to 8 pm, at the MPHA offices, 434 Jamaicaway, Boston. They explained the facets of biomonitoring and how it's being Read more...

Rehab Today

(5/21/07) Can the US Care for the Increasing Disabled Population? Quotes Health Policy and Management Professor Alan M. Jette Read more...

WBUR-FM (NPR) News

(5/18/07) Brain Injury Patients Sue State Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights Professor Wendy Mariner interviewed Read more...

Center for Public Integrity

(5/18/07) Human Exposure 'Uncontrolled' at 114 Superfund Sites Quotes Environmental Health Professor Richard Clapp quoted Read more...

Wired

(5/07) CPR Study to Test Emergency Treatment, Sans Patient Permission Quotes Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights Professor Leonard Glantz Read more...

Associated Press

(5/4/07) Judges Get Crash Course in Sciences Quotes Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights Professor George Annas Read more...

Media Cover Prof. White's Gulf War Vet Brain Study

(5.25.07) Chair and professor of the BUSPH environmental health department Roberta White presented at a press conference held at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting in Boston on Monday, April 30. She spoke about a study that focused on veterans of the first Gulf war who returned home with Read more...

William DeJong Wins Scotch Teaching Award

Dean Robert Meenan presents Scotch Award to Professor William DeJong. (5.24.07) BUSPH Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences William DeJong, PhD, MA, was named the Norman A. Scotch Award winner at Commencement, Sunday, May 20. The award recognizes an outstanding faculty member who exemplifies excellence in teaching. "Teaching is the Read more...

Sullivan to Attend Executive Leadership Program

(5.16.07) Biostatistics Chair and Professor Lisa Sullivan has been accepted as a member of the 2007-2008 class of Fellows in the Hedwig van Amerigen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. Established in 1995, ELAM offers an intensive one-year program of leadership training, with extensive coaching, networking, and Read more...

Community-University Retreat Addresses Health Disparities May 24

(5.15.07) More than 150 members of community-based organizations as well as faculty, staff, and students from BUSPH are expected to attend a first-of-its kind retreat to explore ways to reduce health disparities through community/university partnerships. This one-day session will be held on Thursday, May 24, 9 am - 4 pm, Read more...

Reuters Health

5/1/07 Brain changes seen in some Gulf War vets Quotes Environmental Health Chairman & Professor Roberta White Read more...

Bloomberg

5/1/07 Brain Differences Seen Between Healthy, Ill Gulf War Veterans Quotes Environmental Health Chairman & Professor Roberta White Read more...

United Press International

5/1/2007 Analysis: Gulf War vets' brains shrink Quotes Environmental Health Chairman & Professor Roberta White Read more...

Gary Young Selected for RWJ Foundation Investigator Award

(5.8.07) Health Policy & Management Professor and Chair Gary Young was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. The award will support his ongoing research on the application of pay-for-performance concepts to the health care industry. Pay-for-performance programs provide Read more...

Can Malaria Be Controlled Holistically?

(5.1.07) Join Professor Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, director of Research and Partnerships at the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, as he discusses a Holistic Approach to Malaria Control. This Global Health Initiative Special Seminar will be held on Monday, May 7, 4 - 5 pm, Room R-110, Boston Read more...

May 9 Forum: Establishing Cancer Education Programs

(4.24.07) What does it take to establish a cancer education program for American Indians? What are the challenges? What are the collaborating organizations? Join Diane Weiner, PhD, medical anthropologist, as she discusses the benefits and pitfalls of working with a diverse group of public health educators, epidemiologists, nurses, Native American Read more...

Semrau Receives Award for Work on HIV and Breast Milk

(4.19.07) Katherine Semrau, Instructor in International Health and doctoral candidate in epidemiology, received the Young Investigator Award at the 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Her abstract "Postnatal Transmission of HIV and Breast Milk Viral Load and Sodium Level During the First Four Months of Breastfeeding," reports that breast-milk Read more...

Attend Community Partners Appreciation Day, April 24

Calling all BUSPH students, faculty, staff and friends: We need your support! On Tuesday, April 24, the Practice Office will be hosting Community Partners Appreciation Day to honor those who have contributed to our practicum program. Over 250 students have completed their practica this year, in 24 countries and 16 Read more...

April 11 PHF: Kurland on Culture of Public Health vs Self-Reliance

(4.5.07) Join Judith Kurland, Chief of Staff for Boston Mayor Menino and past president of the Massachusetts Public Health Association, at the next BUSPH Public Health Forum as she discusses "The Clash Between the Culture of Public Health and the Culture of Self-Reliance." Given the recent changes in public health Read more...

Boston Herald

3/27/07 Audit: State starving for local eatery inspections Quotes Associate Professor Environmental Health Wendy Heiger-Bernays and Director Practice Programs Kathleen MacVarish Read more...

Hynes Addresses War's Health Effects on Women

(4.2.07) Environmental Health Professor Pat Hynes spoke on the health effects of war on women as part of a panel addressing the need for legislative advocacy to eliminate violence and discrimination against the female children in Africa. The panel was sponsored by the International League for Human Rights, Friends of Read more...

DeJong Presents Leadership Award for Collegiate Tobacco Control

(4.2.07) Social and Behavioral Sciences Professor William DeJong presented the fifth Henry W. DeJong Award for Vision and Leadership in Collegiate Tobacco Control. The award was presented to Gwen Sieving, a health educator at the Hartshorn Health Center at Colorado State University (CSU). She was recognized for her work in Read more...

Career Fair for BUSPH Students, April 9

(3.28.07) Attention, BUSPH students! Are you graduating soon and looking for a job? Are you looking for ideas on where to complete your practicum? If so, this is the event for you! On Monday, April 9, the Ninth Annual Boston University School of Public Health Career Fair will be held Read more...

Video: Keusch in Mubai; Building Indo-BU Collaborations in Health & Development

(3.27.07) Gerald Keusch, associate dean for global health at the School of Public Health, delivered the keynote address at the sixth annual BU alumni event in Mumbai, India, September 16, 2006. Keusch opened by discussing the recent sobering past and the disappointing present in terms of world health emphasizing that Read more...

BUSPH/Community Retreat to Reduce Health Disparities, May 24

(3.20.07) Faculty and students are encouraged to participate in a first-of-its kind retreat to explore ways to reduce health disparities through community/university partnerships. Save the date! Thursday, May 24, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Hiebert Lounge, 14th floor of the BU School of Medicine. There is no cost to participate, breakfast Read more...

Webster Appointed to National Academy of Sciences Committee on Agent Orange

(3.16.07) Environmental Health Associate Professor Tom Webster has been appointed to the Institute of Medicine's committee on "Making Best Use of the Agent Orange Exposure Reconstruction Model." The Institute of Medicine is part of the National Academy of Sciences. The committee is advising the Department of Veterans Affairs on the Read more...

March 21 Public Health Forum: Reducing HIV with Male Circumcision

(3.16.07) Join Daniel Halperin, PhD, as he discusses "Male Circumcision: Our Best Available HIV Vaccine," at the next Public Health Forum. Halperin currently serves as a senior research scientist at Harvard University School of Public Health Center for Population and Development Studies. Since the late 1990s Halperin has argued that Read more...

Filmmaker to Show, Discuss Hand of God

(3.12.07) On Tuesday, March 20, at 2:30 pm, documentary filmmaker and producer Joe Cultrera will visit the BU Medical Campus to host a screening and discussion of his award-winning documentary, "Hand of God." In "Hand of God," Joe Cultrera explores the very personal story of how his brother, Paul, was molested in Read more...

Obesity Prevention: Strategies and Initiatives, March 13

(3.8.07) Caroline Apovian, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, will speak about new advanced in cancer prevention and control. Cancer Grand Rounds 2006-07 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Noon to 1:00 pm Boston University School of Medicine L-110 Lunch will be provided Read more...

When Politics and Methodology Collide: A Mortality Cluster Survey in Iraq

(3.6.07) Epidemiologist Les Roberts will speak about what happened when the results of his study of mortality in Iraq before and after the 2003 invasion ran contrary to claims of the Bush Administration. Read more...

David Javitch Publishes Article on Personnel Management

(3.6.07) Professor David Javitch in the Department of International Health has written an article entitled, "Creating Loyal Employees." Published in business magazine Brilliant Results (www.brilliantpublishing.com), copies are available upon request from David at drdj@bu.edu or 617-638-7796. Read more...

Rehospitalization More Likely for Cesarean Births

(3.4.07) -- BUMC-affiliated researchers who compared outcomes and costs associated with planned cesarean births without labor have shown that rehospitalization within the first 30 days is more likely than with vaginal and cesarean births with labor (19.2 in 1,000 versus 7.5 in 1,000).The results are reported in the March 2007 Read more...

Town Hall Meeting on Darfur: See the Video

To view the video, click here. (3.1.07) Jon Simon, ScD, chair, Department of International Health and director of Boston University’s Center for International Health and Development, introduces a town hall meeting Dec. 5., 2006, to discuss how Darfur has become one of the worst human rights disasters in history. Alex Read more...

Pat Hynes Offers Healthy Housing Training Sessions for Public Health Officers

(2.23.07) -- The Center for Healthy Homes and Neighborhoods at BUSPH, which is co-directed by Professor Pat Hynes of the Department of Environmental Health and Dr. Megan Sandel of Boston Medical Center, offered three training session for health and housing professionals during January and February. The training sessions focused on Read more...

Global AIDS Week of Action Feb. 26 to March 2

(2.22.07) The week of February 26 to March 2 marks the 6th annual Student Global AIDS Week of Action and will involve activities at universities all over the world. During this week, Student from the BU schools of public health and medicine will join forces to raise awareness and educate the Read more...

Human Rights Legacy of Nuremberg Doctors Trial: A One-day Conference

(2.20.07) Sixty years after the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial brought the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation to the world's attention, the resulting Nuremberg Code stands as the cornerstone of law and ethical practice in human experimentation and treatment. The trial also documented physician involvement in sterilizations and euthanasia, as well as Read more...

HBO Premieres "Addiction;" Rosenbloom to Moderate Panel

(2.20.07) The Massachusetts Organization for Addition Recovery (MOAR) invites the public to the premiere screening of the HBO documentary "Addiction" on Monday, Feb. 26, at the Massachusetts State House, Beacon Street at Park Street, Boston, Mass. Following the screening, a panel of public health experts will discuss new ideas about Read more...

Feb. 14 -- BUSPH to Follow Normal Evening Class Schedule

(2.14.07) Message from the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs -- Please be advised that classes WILL be held as regularly scheduled this evening at BUSPH. Leonard Glantz, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs lglantz@bu.edu Read more...

Emergency Procedures for School Closing and Class Cancellation

(2.13.07) A message from Sally Dwyer, manager of operations -- In the unlikely event that tonight's snow storm will require the closing of the School for employees tomorrow or the cancellation of classes tomorrow afternoon or evening, the following procedures will apply: Read more...

Thirteen BUSPH Faculty Receive Fall 2006 Teaching Awards

(2.7.07) BUSPH teaching excellence was acknowledged at the January faculty meeting where 13 professors received awards. At the conclusion of every course BUSPH students rank professors and their respective courses across a series of criteria. The top ranked 8-10% receive award certificates. These faculty and their courses represent a broad Read more...

Catalyst Center Publishes New Chartbook on Health Care Financing for Special Needs Children

(1.31.07) With the goal of spreading innovative financing strategies across the country to benefit children and youth with special health care needs, the Catalyst Center of the BUSPH Health and Disability Working Group has published a new comprehensive resource. Read more...

DeJong to Moderate Sessions at National Conference on Student Alcohol Abuse

(1.31.07) Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences William DeJong will moderate three plenary sessions at Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Intervention, a national conference co-sponsored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and several other organizations, to be held Feb. 1-3. The three-day conference, in Atlanta, will bring together more Read more...

Mass. Health Reform: Politics and Process, Topic of Feb. 7 Public Health Forum

(1.25.07) Join BUSPH alumna Christie L. Hager, JD, MPH ‘91, as she speaks on the Politics and Process of Massachusetts Health Reform at the next BUSPH Public Health Forum. Hager serves as Chief Health Counsel to Salvatore F. DiMasi, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Read more...

BU Today Features Join Together Effort to Boot Drinking Games

(1.25.07) Join Together, a program of BUSPH, has succeeded in pressuring retailers Target, Kohl’s and Linens-n-Thing to stop sales of drinking games that may promote binge drinking. Read BU Today’s account of their campaign here. Read more...

McCloskey Leads BUSPH Involvement in International Honors Program

(1.23.07) Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health Lois McCloskey will launch the IHP/Health and Community Program at BUSPH. The International Honors Program (IHP) is a theme-based comparative study abroad program for undergraduate students from top-tier universities throughout the US. "Health and Community" is designed particularly for those headed into careers in public Read more...

EH Department Links Exposure to Brominated Fire Retardants to House Dust

(1.22.07) Research conducted by members of the Department of Environmental Health linked levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in people to the concentrations of these toxic compounds in house dust. PBDEs are flame retardants found in certain household products. Read more...

Sager Shares Expertise on Health Care Cost with ABC News

(1.09.07) Health Policy and Management Professor Alan Sager, PhD, weighed in on the continued slowdown in US health care spending, in an online article featured on ABCnews.com. He also provided expert commentary about the California health plan in a segment on ABC World News Tonight on Tuesday, January 9. Read more...

Stem Cell Politics Topic of BUSPH Alumni Event

(1.08.07) Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights Chair, George Annas, JD, MPH, will be discussing Stem Cell Politics: Faith, Hope, and Hype at the inaugural lecture of the BUSPH Alumni Evening Event Series. Alumni, faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the event Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 6:30 p.m., Read more...

LaMorte Featured Expert on Channel 5 Flu Vaccine Report

Epidemiology Professor Wayne LaMorte, MD, PhD, MPH, offered expert commentary about the flu vaccine in a segment aired on Wednesday, Dec. 15, for WCVB-TV, channel 5, an ABC affiliate. Channel 5's report was about two recently released studies in the New England Journal of Medicine providing more evidence that flu Read more...

BUSPH Holds First-ever Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring

Jessica Nelson and Madeleine K. Scammell, Coordinators of the Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. Results to be presented Dec. 11 What can a truck driver, a teacher's aide, a financial analyst and a youth-detention worker tell us about monitoring and setting policy surrounding the many environmental chemicals present in our Read more...

New Study Will Lead to Reduced STIs in Indian Men

(11.28.06) Epidemiology Associate Professor and Director of the LGBT Public Health Research program Seth Welles is collaborating with researchers from University of Texas School of Public Health and Cleveland State University to evaluate sexual identity, sexual behaviors, and disclosure of same-sex behaviors among an Internet-recruited sample of men who have Read more...

Ngina Lythcott Appointed New Associate Dean for Students at BUSPH

(11.21.06) MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN: It is with great pleasure that I announce today that Ngina Lythcott, MSW, DrPH, vice dean and dean of students at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, has accepted the position of associate dean for students at BUSPH. This is a new position Read more...

BUSPH Delegation Explores Possible Collaborations in China and South Korea

Mark Prashker, associate dean of research and institutional development, presents gifts and a copy of the BUSPH Dean's Report to Qixiang Sun, associate dean, School of Economics at Peking University, during a two-week trip to China and South Korea with a delegation from BUSPH. (11.16.06) Halfway through a two-week trip to South Read more...

Keeping Tabs on the Effects of Urban Sprawl

By Brittany Jasnoff, for BU Today Russell Lopez, a research assistant professor of environmental health at the School of Public Health, was recently appointed to the Health Professionals Task Force of the International Joint Commission (IJC). The IJC is an independent binational organization established in 1909 by the Boundary Read more...

Javitch Talks on Team Building in Moscow

(10.27.06) International Health Assistant Professor David Javitch was the keynote speaker at the United States Department of State Muskie Fellows Leadership Conference, which was held October 5-7 in Moscow. Javitch spoke to 30 fellows about key factors that contribute to building and leading successful teams. The Muskie Fellows Program provides opportunities Read more...

BUSPH Student, Schweitzer Fellow Serves in Western Africa

MPH/MD student Katherine Simon and her patients enjoy a carnival she helped organize on the pediatrics unit of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon, Africa. Courtesy of MedCenterNews BUSPH/BUSM student Katherine Simon '08 spent the summer serving as a Schweitzer Fellow helping medically underserved people in western Africa. Simon, who Read more...

Keusch Named to Rogers Society Advisory Board

Gerald T. Keusch, MD, associate dean of global health and director of the Global Health Initiative at Boston University, has been invited to become a member of the Advisory Council of the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research. The newly formed society has been established with a grant Read more...

Hynes Speaks on Community Partnerships

Environmental Health Professor Pat Hynes delivered a keynote address at the National Community Involvement Conference, an annual meeting of the federal EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Superfund Program. Read more...

A. Ozonoff Presents at Biosurveillance and Mathematics Meetings

Biostatistics Assistant Professor Al Ozonoff joined other experts in biosurveillance at a two-day conference to discuss the methodology and implementation of the CDC’s nationwide surveillance system, BioSense. The conference was held June 28 and 29, in Atlanta. Read more...

Lopez Named to International Commission on Environmental Health

Environmental Health Research Assistant Professor Russ Lopez was appointed to the Health Professionals Task Force of the International Joint Commission. Read more...

Sullivan Shares Statistics Knowledge with Students and Instructors

Newly named biostatistics department chair Lisa Sullivan, PhD, was the keynote speaker of the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association (BCASA) High School Statistics Day. Read more...

Ozonoff Named Chairman Emeritus of Environmental Health

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN: I am pleased to announce the designation of Professor David Ozonoff as Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Environmental Health. This honor is being conferred on David in recognition of his many years of exemplary service as chairman of the department and for his ongoing engagement Read more...