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Bicknell Encourages Public Health Practitioners; Emotional Lecture Will be Available on Video

With a combination of jokes, poignant stories and encouragement to "make people hurt less," William Bicknell regaled an overflow crowd with lessons learned from more than five decades in public health.


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Register Now for the John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day

 

Showcasing BUMC educational innovation and scholarship

Sponsored by Boston University's Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Dental Medicine and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences


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Bicknell to Offer 'Lessons from a Life in Public Health' in Lecture

 

William J. Bicknell has brought his public health expertise to 62 countries and has the distinction of founding BUSPH's high-profile Department of International Health -- but ask him what drives his commitment to international health and he offers the simplest of explanations:

"Because it's not nice for people to hurt. And most people can hurt less," he says.


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Deborah Bowen Receives 'SIGGIE' Award at SBM Annual Meeting

Professor Deborah Bowen, chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health, has received the top award from the Cancer Special Interest Group of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM).


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Faculty Luncheon Workshop, May 7

 

Translating Covey's 7 Habits for the Classroom


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Biomedical Engineering Seminar with Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, May 2

BME Distinguished Seminar with featured speaker Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at NIH


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