Community Engagement

Graduate students, postdocs, and faculty from across Harvard Medical School (HMS) worked with OCCE youth programs staff to share their STEM career insights with 431 middle school students from 10 Boston Public Schools in a two-day Middle School Career...

Genesis, you have a unique experience - you first came to HMS as a 14-year-old to participate in the student-run HPREP program and then subsequently participated in OCCE’s Hinton AP Biology program and the Project Success high school program, and later...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

OCCE staff Michelle Keenan and Sarah Foy joined enthusiastic community members at the Dimock Center in Roxbury to prepare bags of nutritious food that will be distributed to address the pressing issue of food insecurity in the community. Through a...

Staff members from the HMS Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) spend their Monday morning this week pitching in at Community Servings in Jamaica Plain. The team assisted in the kitchen by assembling food distribution bags and packing...

Staff members from the HMS Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) spent a weekday morning in August at the Greater Boston Food Bank as part of a recurring series of community service efforts. Alongside another volunteer team, the group was...