Michelle Bowdler, M.S.P.H.
Senior Director of Health and Wellness Services

Welcome to the Tufts Health Service.

Michelle was a writer and editor after graduating from Brandeis University with a BA in English and American Literature. After that, she worked for a number of years in the area of substance abuse, providing HIV education and counseling to heroin users who were in methadone treatment. She has experience in gay, lesbian, bisexual health issues, and injury and violence prevention. After receiving her masters degree, Michelle helped open and run the Roxbury Heart Center, which was the first in the nation community-based cardiac clinic designed to treat an underserved, economically disadvantaged population.

Michelle has two children and a partner of many years. Recently, they purchased an aquarium with three sharks. She also enjoys gardening, walking, broadway musicals, the Red Sox, Tina Turner and Judy Garland.

Please come and talk to Michelle about careers in Public Health.