- Faculty & Staff
- March 30, 2025
Dear colleagues,
Faculty at SPH have access to a wide variety of opportunities for faculty development. The portfolio of programs and resources, which are described in the Faculty Handbook, includes our Faculty Development Seminar Series (FDSS). The FDSS is updated each semester to include seminars and workshops from three different sectors: SPH department-level events, SPH school-wide events, and University-wide events.
Here we highlight the events offered in April:
Department Events:
Biostatistics
- Comparative effects of generalized time-varying treatment strategies with repeatedly measured outcomes in EHR data; Tuesday, April 1, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Adrienne Cupples Award Presentation – Biomarker-Driven Trial Designs: Mitigating Measurement Error in Time-to-Event Outcomes for Better Treatment Outcomes; Thursday, April 3, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Community Health Sciences
- Advocating for Public Health in Times of Uncertainty; Wednesday, April 9, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Environmental Health
- From Extraction to Energy Transition: Health Impacts and Equity Across the Oil & Gas Supply Chain; Wednesday, April 2, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Epidemiology
- PROGRESS Lecture: Gynecological Health: The Silent Crisis of Underfunding and Underprioritization; Wednesday, April 2, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Global Health
- HPV and cervical cancer in Kenya; Monday, April 7, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Advanced HIV Disease study in Zambia; Monday, April 14, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Low Birthweight and Preterm Infant Feeding; Monday, April 28, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
School-wide Events:
- WCVI lunch seminar series: Dr. Holger Eltzschig, MD, PhD; Tuesday, April 1, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Public Health Conversation: Birthing and Raising the Next Generation: Holistic Approaches to Advance Racial and Social Equity; Tuesday, April 1, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Grant Writing Workshop Pre-Workshop Session; Tuesday, April 1, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Mentor Academy; Tuesday, April 3, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
- SPH Faculty and Staff Writing Community; Friday, April 4, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
- Open Forum for Faculty & Staff with Dean Stein & Associate Deans; Friday, April 4, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Public Health Conversation: Building Pipelines for Women’s Leadership in Public Health; Wednesday, April 9, 1:00 pm – 2:30pm
- Faculty Breakfast with Dean Stein; Tuesday, April 15, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
- WCVI lunch seminar series: Dr. Dipayan Chaudhuri, MD, PhD; Tuesday, April 15, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Standing out online: cutting-edge strategies for sharing public health practice and research; Tuesday, April 15, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Health Data Science Seminar: Learning From Data: Two Aspects of Fairness; Wednesday, April 16, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- School Assembly; Tuesday, April 22, 10:00 am – 11:30 am
- SPH Teaching and Learning; Tuesday, April 22, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- PHC Starter Community Session; Tuesday, April 22, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- Annual Shine Lecture: Matt Selig; Wednesday, April 23, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
University-Wide Events:
- Research on Tap: Tackling Cancer Through Multidisciplinary Research; Wednesday, April 2, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- From Insight to Impact: Crafting Op-Eds That Amplify Your Expertise; Thursday, April 3, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- New Growths: A Conversation on Indigenous Sovereignty & Sustainability; Friday, April 4, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Managing a Research Team in 2025; Tuesday, April 8, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Powering Massachusetts Forward Interactive Workshop; Thursday, April 10, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
- A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement: A Conversation with Bestselling Author Keith O’Brien; Thursday, April 10, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
- Impact of the Exposome on Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias; Monday, April 14, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- MAP Alliance Celebration for Arab Heritage Month; Wednesday, April 16, 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
- FRP Symposium: Privacy Preserving Energy Analytics for Data Centers; Friday, April 18, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
- Advances in Global Disease Surveillance: An Introduction to BEACON; Thursday, April 24, 2:00 pm – 6:30 pm
- 2025 Green AI Summit; Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Unlocking NSF Funding: Opportunities for Infrastructure and Instrumentation; Monday, April 28, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Find Funding for Evaluating Social Programs and Policies: Meet Arnold Ventures; Tuesday, April 29, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Surviving & Thriving in Academia as an Introvert; Tuesday, April 29th, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Opportunities from the National Council on Faculty Development and Diversity:
- Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed: Research Funding Strategies; Tuesday, April 8, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Mastering Academic Time Management; Thursday, April 10, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
- Virtual Writing Session; Tuesday, April 15, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
- Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed: Approaches for Academic Leaders; Tuesday, April 15, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Academic Leadership: Cultivating Your Mentorship Network; Thursday, April 17, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
- Department Chair Success: Navigating Leadership Challenges; Tuesday, April 29, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed: Reflections and Lessons Learned; Wednesday, April 30, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Please reach out to sphfro@bu.edu with any questions or if you would like to add any professional development seminars/workshops to the calendar.
Sincerely,
Mike McClean, ScD
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Advancement
mmcclean@bu.edu