Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs (ORMA)

2024 Feb 01

LGBTQ+ Networking Reception

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Waterhouse Room, Gordon Hall, 25 Shattuck Street
Reception for LGBTQ+ medical students, residents, and faculty to network and build community. All are welcome.
Amanda Moreno Garcia, photograph by Jim Harrison

Battling Eating Disorders

January 9, 2024
When Amanda Moreno Garcia, M.D. ’26, joined an eating disorder awareness club as a freshman majoring in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, she did it to support a friend. “My friend had lived experience [of an eating disorder] and was really passionate about joining this club,” Moreno Garcia recalls.
Students gathering in a common space for food and conversation.

Introduction to Service

August 12, 2022

First-year students learn the power of on-the-ground community engagement.

To help new Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine students understand more about health equity and about how they will provide care for their future patients, this year’s first-week Introduction to the Profession (ITP) course provided incoming students with an opportunity to become better acquainted with Boston-area neighborhoods.

In a session developed by the newly formed...
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2022 Nov 09

Better Together Dialogue: Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools

12:10pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Zoom link provided on registration

Christopher D. E. Willoughby, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 2016, he completed his PhD in history at Tulane University. He is the author of Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), and with Sean Morey Smith, he edited the book Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery (Louisiana State University Press, 2021). He has published widely in popular and academic publications including The Washington Post and The Journal of the History of...

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2022 Sep 15

Countway Resource Fair

11:00am to 6:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library

Back by Popular Demand
 

We’re thrilled to announce that our in-person Countway Resource Fair is returning this fall!
 
Drop in Thursday, September 15 between 11am-6pm for our biggest annual event: we’ll be taking over the whole first floor and the L1 Atrium with exhibitor booths, food, giveaways, activities, and opportunities to learn about some of Countway’s incredible resources.
 
All current Harvard staff, faculty and students with Harvard IDs are invited to attend!
 
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2022 Apr 28

Harold Amos Mentorship Lecture: Thomas Sequist, MD, MPH, HMS ‘99

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Zoom link sent on registration

Harold Amos Mentorship Lecture

A Journey Toward Equity

Thomas Sequist, MD, MPH, HMS ‘99, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School;  Chief Medical Officer, Mass General Brigham

Dr. Sequist will receive the 2022 Michael Shannon, MD, MPH, Excellence in Mentoring award at the event.

Dr. Sequist is a member of the Taos Pueblo tribe in New Mexico and has conducted influential health policy research to advance our understanding of...

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2022 May 29

Commencement & Class Day Celebrations for the Classes of 2020 and 2021

(All day)

Location: 

Harvard Yard and the HMS Quad*

Graduation is a day of ceremony and celebration at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. For the class of 2020 and 2021, graduates have been granted the MD and any other advanced degrees they earned and received their diplomas, but on May 29th, 2022, they will be celebrated and hooded.

Graduation traditionally consists of two parts: the Commencement Ceremony and Class...

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