Colleagues,

Our hearts still break at the tragic and untimely passing of Professor David Jones. Thank you to everyone who joined in our gathering yesterday, to share stories and memories.

As we look ahead, we will be putting together a multimedia tribute of memories of Professor Jones. We hope that the video will be a celebration of his life, one that we can give to his young children who will now grow up without him and will want to know more, a testament to the love and esteem that this community held for David. We will be collecting photos, videos, and any other materials that you would like to share, which the COMM team will knit together. If you would like to contribute a video (be it a video of David or a video of yourself reflecting on memories or moments with David) please feel free to record a video of any length (this can be done easily through Zoom) and send to sphevent@bu.edu. If you would like to upload items, be it a video or a handful of photos, directly to the shared Dropbox we have set up for this, please email sphevent@bu.edu for details.

To make it easier, for those who wish to have a video recorded by the COMM team, the team will be on site at the Talbot Building in the Board Room today, Tuesday, September 14 from 9 am – 1 pm and 2:30 – 5 pm, as well as tomorrow, Wednesday, September 15 from 9 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 3 pm to film videos. Please feel free to drop by at any of those times. Questions can be directed to Mike Saunders at msaunder@bu.edu.

Last, we are coordinating with David’s family and will be hosting a memorial event on Thursday, September 23 for the SPH community and David’s relatives and friends. The event will be hosted in the Hiebert Lounge and via Zoom. We will share parts of the multimedia tribute compiled above at the event, and will have an opportunity for all our community, faculty, staff, students, and alumni to come together to mourn David’s passing, and to celebrate David’s life.

Thank you again for your ongoing support of David’s family and of each other through this time.

Warmly,

Sandro

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH
Dean, Robert A Knox Professor
sgalea@bu.edu

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