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Fall 2020

From the Field
Friday, October 2, 2020
12:00noon
Join Pamela Schoenberg Reider, Internship Administrator, for a panel featuring three current internship supervisors who will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on their work.
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Recent News

Fall 2020 Community Health Office hours:
Mondays 11:00am-2:00pm
Tuesdays 11:00am-2:00pm
Wednesdays 8:00am-12:00pm
For further assistance, contact: laura.pinkham@tufts.edu

Tufts students and faculty, working in partnership with community leaders from The Welcome Project in Somerville, learned valuable lessons from adapting their research due to COVID-19. Read about Prof. Shalini Tendulkar and her community-based participatory research course CH 182, featured by Tisch College: 'How a Community-Based Participatory Research Project Navigated the Pandemic.'

CH student Iman Ali '22 featured in the Summer 2020 issue of JUMBO, Tufts' undergraduate admissions magazine.

WATCH: Community Health Class of 2020 Tribute Video

Jennifer Allen was interviewed on WGBH's 'In It Together' about Tufts' Equity Study of Covid Vaccine Acceptibility (July 2020)

Adolfo Cuevas was featured in Tufts Now: Why People of Color Are Suffering More from COVID-19 (July 2020)

Congratulations to Maureen Kamanu '20 and Seble Yigletu '20 for receiving the 2020 Tufts Presidential Award for Civic Life

The research of some Community Health students is featured in the annual Tufts Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium: "Research in Community Health focuses on the concrete, experiential outcomes of social inequality"

In November 2019, CH students traveled to Washington D.C. to present research at the American Soceity of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) annual meeting

Cecilia Flores named to 2019's 'Latino 30 Under 30' list

Community Health Welcomes New Department Chair
We are delighted to have Lynne Pepall, Professor of Economics, as the new Department Chair of Community Health

CH Alum Colleen Doolan A'19 M'23, has been named to the list of top thirty honorees for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year Award

Madina Agénor named to The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)'s Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States

Prof. Adolfo Cuevas featured in Tufts Now article "Link Between Racial Discrimination and Cardiovascular Health"

2019 Senior Spotlight: CH grad Colleen Doolan

Learn about our 2019 Community Health Summer Scholars

Community Health Senior Audrey Evers' Senior Honors Thesis featured in Tufts Now

Publication in Pediatrics features research by Dr. Madina Agénor

Publication in Acta Tropica features research by Dr. Karen Kosinski

Publication in Society of Behavioral Health features research by Dr. Adolfo Cuevas

Publication in Cancer Causes and Control features research by Dr. Jennifer Allen

Dr. Keren Ladin's work on ensuring equity for patients with intellectual disabilities who need transplants was featured in March 29, 2019 article in Bloomberg Law