Dean Sandro Galea Leaving BU's School of Public Health for WashU Opportunity | BU Today
Sandro Galea will step down as dean of the BU School of Public Health at the end of the year to join Washington University in St. Louis.
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Sandro Galea will step down as dean of the BU School of Public Health at the end of the year to join Washington University in St. Louis.
As the possibility of a new pandemic looms, influential figures are telling us we shouldn’t have been so worried about the last one. This spells trouble.
In 1986, an upstart public health researcher named Arline Geronimus challenged the conventional wisdom that condemned the alarming rise of inner-city teen pregnancies. While activist minister Jesse Jackson and health care leaders were decrying the crisis of “babies having babies” as a ghetto pathology, Geronimus contended that teenage pregnancy was a rational response to urban poverty where low-income black people have fewer healthy years before the onset of heart problems, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.
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