This Public Health Conversation Starter features Kerwin Amo (SPH’21) and Daniella Montero (SPH’23), in conversation with Craig Andrade, BUSPH Associate Dean for Practice and Director of the Activist Lab.

Kerwin serves as Chief of Staff for State Representative Marjorie C. Decker, Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Health and Daniella serves as Research Analyst for the Joint Committee on Public Health. They share about their current work at the Massachusetts State House and their experiences as alumni of BUSPH. Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

In Conversation with Kerwin Amo and Daniella Montero

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Maria Smilios (GRS’07), in conversation with Craig Andrade, BUSPH Associate Dean for Practice and Director of the Activist Lab. Maria discusses her recent book, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. 
 
Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

In Conversation with Maria Smilios

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Sara Minkara, who led U.S. foreign policy on disability rights as the second-ever U.S. Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, in conversation with Yvette Cozier, BUSPH Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. 
 
This Starter is part of SPH Reads, our school-wide reading program hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. In conjunction with this year’s book selection, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Dean Cozier is having discussions with leaders on the themes of political divides, class, and race.


In Conversation with Sara Minkara

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Dr. Lauren Smith, Vice President of Strategic Portfolios at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in conversation with Michael Stein, BUSPH Dean ad interim. Dr. Smith and Dean Stein discuss the current vision and initiatives of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the role of foundations in this moment of new federal uncertainty.

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.

In Conversation with Dr. Lauren Smith

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Paul Shoemaker, Director of the Environmental & Occupational Health Division at the Boston Public Health Commission, in conversation with Craig Andrade, BUSPH Associate Dean for Practice and Director of the Activist Lab. 

Our Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in short discussions around issues of consequence in public health.


In Conversation with Paul Shoemaker

This Public Health Conversation Starter features Michael Serazio, professor in the Department of Communication at Boston College, in conversation with Yvette Cozier, BUSPH Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice.

This Starter is part of SPH Reads, our school-wide reading program hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. In conjunction with this year’s book selection, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Dean Cozier is having discussions with leaders on the themes of political divides, class, and race.

In Conversation with Michael Serazio

Boston University School of Public Health’s Conversation Starters engage leading thinkers in conversation around issues of consequence in public health.

In Conversation with Michael Serazio

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