Congratulations to the HMS/HSDM 2025 graduates!
Read more below about the graduates, as well as the celebrations and ceremonies held May 28–29 for MD, DMD, master's, and PhD graduates.
Congratulations to the HMS/HSDM 2025 graduates!
Read more below about the graduates, as well as the celebrations and ceremonies held May 28–29 for MD, DMD, master's, and PhD graduates.
147 students in HMS-based programs receive doctoral degrees amid turbulent times for U.S. research
MD and DMD graduates applaud accomplishments, prepare for challenges
HMS/HSDM medical, dental, master's, and PhD students celebrate in Cambridge.
Images: Steve Lipofsky for HMS
Students from around the world will use education as a force for good
A special celebration was held for the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology graduates at MIT on Tuesday, May 27.
Congratulations to the HST Class of 2025!
Image: Justin Knight
These graduates are pursuing singular paths to advance science and improve health
As future physicians, they participated in service, training, and scholarly work around the world
Whether it’s carefully assembling students on the front steps of HSDM for their very first class photo or capturing the triumphant smiles and warm embraces of graduates on Class Day, Steve Gilbert has been a steady and familiar presence behind the lens.
Harvard Medical School alumna and 14th president of Wellesley College Paula Johnson will deliver the keynote speech at the HMS/Harvard School of Dental Medicine Class Day Ceremony on May 29.
Johnson has advanced health, and well-being, especially for women, through her expertise and leadership in health care, public health, health policy, and education.
Journalist and educator Linda Villarosa will give the keynote address at the HMS Master’s Convocation on May 28.
Villarosa is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where she covers health, medicine, race, and inequality. She has investigated such topics as Black maternal and infant health and mortality, the toll of Covid-19 on Black communities, the HIV epidemic, the environmental justice movement in Philadelphia, eugenics, and Black women’s physical and emotional health.
Her stories and books have received many honors and awards, including an essay in the New York Times’ Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1619 Project. Her latest book, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Villarosa is guest lecturer in media and medicine at HMS and has been a journalism fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is journalist-in-residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and teaches at the City College of New York. Villarosa is former executive editor at Essence magazine.
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