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SPH This Week

June 9, 2019
 
 
 
 
Upcoming Signature Program
 
Red in a Sea of Blue: A Public Health Perspective
 
 
Jun 11
1 to 2:30 p.m.
 
 
Bakst Auditorium, 72 East Concord Street, Boston
 
 
 
 
Research
 
 
LGB Cancer Survivors Have Less Access to Health Care
 
Access to care affects quality of life for sexual minority cancer survivors more than for their heterosexual counterparts.
 
 
PHX
 
 
There’s Still Time to Register Your Child for PopHealthExperience
 
Students in 7th to 10th grades will participate in hands-on research activities and discover career choices while thinking about how to tackle issues such as homelessness, urban health, and disease control.
 
Viewpoint
 
 
What about the “B” in LGBT+?
 
As Boston prepares for Pride weekend, it’s time to stop neglecting bisexuals.
 
 
Activist Lab
 
slideshow
‘I’ve Become Part of a Community Who Has Lost Someone to Gun Violence’
 
SPH faculty, alumni, and staff spoke about why they're wearing orange to bring visibility and attention to national plight of gun violence.
 
 
Public Health Post
 
 
Measuring HIV Post-Release
 
There is urgent need for comprehensive reform to increase HIV testing, prevention, care, and treatment services in prisons and jails.
 
School News
 
 
Student Wins Leather Leadership Conference Scholarship Award
 
Iris Olson received $2,000 award for their work to reduce stigmas within and around LGBTQ, BDSM, leather, and kink communities.
 
 
School News
 
 
‘We Check Our Party Registration at the Door’
 
Ahead of Diversity & Inclusion Seminar, Hannah Kane, Massachusetts State Representative for 11th Worcester District, on the political environment at the State House and achieving bipartisan policies.
 
 
 
Recently at SPH
 
 
‘We Cannot Talk about Health Equity without Race Equity’
 
At Dean's Seminar, panelists examined opportunities to reduce health and economic disparities in US cities.
 
 
 
 
In the Media
 
 
Popular Science
 
Coca-Cola Funds Health Research—and Can Kill the Studies It Doesn’t Like — quotes Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences.
 
 
Washington Post
 
States Aren’t Waiting for the Trump Administration on Environmental Protections — quotes Wendy Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health.
 
 
WBUR
 
How a Federal Move to Limit Transgender Protections Would Affect Patients in Mass — interview with Sean Cahill, adjunct associate professor of the practice, health law, policy & management.
 
 
Fortune
 
It Is Time to Think Differently about Health — opinion by Dean Sandro Galea.
 
 
Vox
 
Abortion in America, Explained in 10 Facts — quotes alum Kristyn Brandi.
 
 
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Think. Teach. Do.
For the Health of All
 
 
 
 
Looking Ahead
 
 
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION SEMINAR—Red in a Sea of Blue: A Public Health Perspective
 
Tuesday, June 11, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Bakst Auditorium.
 
 
Faculty Breakfast with the Dean
 
Wednesday, June 12, 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Founders Room.
 
 
Staff Breakfast with the Dean
 
Tuesday, June 18, 9:30 am – 10:30 am, Alice Bisbee Conference Room 922.
 
 
Think. Teach. Do. Minneapolis—SER Conference
 
Thursday, June 20, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Lakes & Legends Brewing Company, 1368 Lasalle Ave, Minneapolis, MN.
 
 
Faculty Breakfast with the Dean
 
Tuesday, July 2, 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Crosstown 305.
 
 
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