Leadership

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Public Health 2020: America's Candidate

Public health is running for office, and it will have an uphill battle on many fronts. Those in the field of public health understand what policymakers must enact: If we cannot protect, improve, and ensure the health of everyone, then everyone’s health will be at risk.

Microscopic image of the mycobacterium tuberculosis

Interview with a Pathogen: The Importance of Investigative Reporting in All Things

Dolly Katz, MPH ’90, PhD ’95

Since grade school, Dolly Katz had planned to be a reporter. The Michigan alum worked for years as a Detroit journalist before changing paths. She is now a disease expert at the CDC working to eradicate tuberculosis. Katz’s investigative skills have served her well as both a journalist and an epidemiologist.

Jen Andonian, MPH ‘15 and Matt Shearer, MPH ‘14, pause on a busy work day in March, with a team of frontline-workers-turned-wedding-guests, to get married in the historic Ether Dome surgical theatre at Massachusetts General Hospital, just days after they had canceled their well-planned wedding.

Alumni: News and Networking

From class notes to mentoring opportunities to keeping in touch with old friends and current students, here are the latest updates from the school and from our 17,000+ alumni around the world.