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Heller News Release
April 15, 2025
2025 Heller Awards Celebrate Excellence Inside and Outside the Classroom
Each spring, the Heller School recognizes outstanding service in teaching, mentoring, teaching assistance, staff service, research, and more.
Heller News Release
April 08, 2025
The Heller School Recognized as a Top 10 Graduate School
U.S. News & World Report Ranks Heller #9 for Social Policy and Management and #13 for Health Policy.
Heller News Release
April 03, 2025
New Research Examines Advancing Responsible and Ethical AI for All Communities
Heller PhD candidate Kumba Sennaar contributes to a Brookings Institution report on Health and AI.
Heller in the News
March 26, 2025
A Democratic version of the Tea Party is a bad idea. Here’s why.
In a commentary piece for WBUR’s Cognoscenti blog, Graham Wright, MPP'15, PhD'16, associate research professor, writes that Democrats can learn from the mistakes of the 2010s Tea Party movement if they want to build and wield political power.
Heller in the News
March 25, 2025
‘Surreal’: Anita Hill recounts her testimony about allegations of sexual assault by former boss Clarence Thomas
On CNN, University Professor Anita Hill speaks to Jake Tapper about the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas, her former boss whom she accused of sexual harassment.
Heller in the News
March 25, 2025
Market logic can’t compute the true impact of US foreign aid
In an opinion piece published in The Hill, Pamina Firchow, Associate Professor of Coexistence and Conflict Resolution, and coauthor Agnieszka Paczyńska argue that if foreign aid were run solely on a market logic, it would fail to address the nuanced political, social, and conflict-related dynamics inherent in efforts to promote democracy, build peace, and foster development.
Heller News Release
March 21, 2025
Study Shows High Physician-Patient Engagement Leads to Burnout
Heller PhD candidate Masami Tabata-Kelly publishes a new paper in JAMA Network Open.
Heller in the News
March 14, 2025
Fewer Than Half of Medicaid Managed Care Plans Provide All FDA-approved Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder
BU School of Public Health reports on a newly-published study by Maureen Stewart, PhD'09, and co-authors.
Heller in the News
March 11, 2025
A recession? You can thank Trump for that.
In an opinion piece for the Boston Globe, Robert Kuttner writes that Trump is the first president ever to deliberately engineer a recession.
Heller in the News
February 28, 2025
Forced Sterilization of Disabled People Isn’t a Relic of the Past
In Mother Jones, Monika Mitra comments that that opposing forced sterilization means reckoning with how disabled people are viewed as parents.
Heller in the News
February 28, 2025
Imposing Medicaid Work Requirements Could Cause Many Adults With Substance Use Disorders To Lose Access To Treatment
In Health Affairs, Dominic Hodgkin and colleagues examine how proposed changes to Medicaid could affect enrollees with substance use disorders.
Heller in the News
February 24, 2025
Savannah Cultural Arts Center to be renamed in honor of former Mayor Otis Johnson
Johnson, PhD'80, served as mayor of Savannah from 2004 to 2012.