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Honoring 2026 Recipients of the Dean’s Community Service Award
The Dean’s Community Service Award recognizes the entire Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine community – recognizing faculty, trainees, staff and students whose dedication and commitment to community service have made a positive...
Recipients of the 2026 Dean's Community Service Award sit in a classroom in Countway Library. There is a projector screen behind them showing additional recipients.

Giving back in our Mission Hill Neighborhood
On May 20th, OCCE’s Michelle Keenan joined six other Harvard Longwood Community members to pick up litter in the Mission Hill neighborhood (some volunteers pictured) .These ‘waste warriors’ battled the heat and the wind-strewn food packaging, paper, cans...
Michelle Keenan stands alongside four other volunteers outside the Kresge building. They are all holding clear trash bags filled with trash and four of the volunteers also have trash pickers.

Harvard Longwood Community Walks for Peace on Mother’s Day
On Sunday, May 10, 2026, members of the Harvard Longwood community joined thousands of others at the 30th annual Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Mother’s Day Walk for Peace at Town Field Park in Dorchester. Representing Harvard Medical School, the Harvard...
Two members of the OCCE staff stand outside during the Mother's Day Walk. One of them is holding up a red Team Harvard Medical School sign.

Randolph High School Youth Health Advisory Council visits HMS
As part of the collaborative INSPIRE project, OCCE hosted students from Randolph High School Youth Health Advisory Council at HMS for an afternoon of enrichment activities and a career panel. This grant funded project is led by the Institute of Health...
Randolph High School students and OCCE staff pose for a photo in a classroom in Countway Library.

How to Be a Confident Pluralist with Professor Danielle Allen
Five practices of a confident pluralist — (1) Reflection, (2) Commitment to Institutions and Nonviolence, (3) Commitment to Compromise, (4) Listening Before Speaking, and (5) Protecting Human Dignity — framed the keynote lecture delivered by Professor...
Danielle Allen stands in front of a projector screen in the Waterhouse Room. Both her hands are raised in gesture as she speaks.

25-26 CFF Fellow Hosts BHCC Students on Campus
Over the course of his fellowship, Commonwealth Fund Fellow Pablo da Silva, MD, MPH (pictured, bottom left) has worked closely with Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) students with a healthcare and science concentration and their professors. Dr. da...
Pablo da Silva takes a selfie in front of the Harvard Medical School sign on the Quad. He is standing with a BHCC professor and 10 BHCC students, some of whom are throwing peace signs or waving.

Harvard Longwood Team Braves Cold for Winter Walk
The Harvard Longwood Community team joined thousands of community members at the annual Winter Walk to end homelessness. The 2-mile annual Winter Walk raises awareness and funds to end homelessness in our communities. Funds raised through this event...
The Harvard Longwood team stands in Boston Common, huddled together in the cold.