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Boston University’s School of Public Health co-hosted “Statistics and the Life Sciences: Creating a Healthier World,” a workshop on digital and global solutions for public health issues at the Hiebert Lounge in the School of Medicine Friday. LEXI PLINE/ DFP FILE PHOTO

Statistics can help in effort to solve health problems, BU experts say

Akshata Shukla November 21, 2019
Professors shared ideas on how to solve issues in public health at the “Statistics and the Life Sciences: Creating a Healthier World” symposium in the Hiebert Lounge at the School of Medicine Friday.
People speak on a panel called “Death and Dying: A Population Health Perspective,” at the Boston University School of Medicine Tuesday. Panelists pictured from left to right include: Barbara Moran, George Annas, Tracy Balboni, Samuel Harrington, Christopher de Bellaigue and Amy Appleford. RIKI STOUT/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

SPH talk explores multicultural perspectives on death, grieving

Amelia Murray-Cooper February 14, 2019
In a recent symposium, scholars from a variety of disciplines gathered at Boston University to offer insights on death from across the globe.
Daniel Alford, Gregory Dorchak, Kim Greene, Eric Gold and Michael Botticelli took part in a panel titled “The Law v. Opioids: Battling the Epidemic” at the Boston Medical Center Monday. COURTESY OF JAINAI JONES/ BMC

Boston Medical Center’s talk examines law in opioid epidemic

Amelia Murray-Cooper November 15, 2018
In the midst of a national opioid epidemic, Boston Medical Center’s compliance department recently invited members of the Boston University community and public to discuss solutions to the crisis from a legal perspective.
Left to right: Marisa M. Silveri, Deborah Hasin, Keith Cooper, Beau Kilmer and Richard Saitz partake in a panel on the legalization of marijuana hosted by the Boston University School of Public Health Thursday. COURTESY OF MICHAEL S. SAUNDERS/ SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

SPH hosts forum to explore future of post-legalization of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts

Victoria Bond October 30, 2018
Members of the Boston University community and other university professors addressed questions around the legalization of recreational marijuana at a forum Thursday in the School of Medicine’s Hiebert Lounge.
Deborah B. Prothrow-Stith, dean of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science’s College of Medicine, speaks at a public health forum on violence prevention hosted by Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Social Work Tuesday. COURTESY OF BU SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

SPH, School of Social Work join forces to talk gun violence prevention

Amelia Murray-Cooper October 25, 2018
Sandro Galea stood in School of Medicine’s Hiebert Lounge and told an audience that as students, they can utilize science to create a healthier world. The forum centered around violence and reframed gun violence as a public health problem rather than a criminal justice issue.
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