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Community Conversations

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Community Conversations provide safe environments where all members of the HMS community can engage in self-reflection and dialogue, ask questions, learn, and contribute. Examples include: Dialogues Since February 2018, OCCE has hosted the Dialogue Series...

OCCE Volunteers at Community Servings

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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...

Community and Campus Life Forum: Leading with Community

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Open to All Harvard Affiliates . In times of change, our strength as a community lies in recognizing our shared responsibility to shape the future together. While we may hold different perspectives, we are united by a commitment to pursuing excellence in...

A Community Dialogue: Reckoning with the History of Slavery in Medicine & Higher Education

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Building on our ongoing work to examine the history of slavery and its legacies at Harvard Medical School, this dialogue invites our community to reflect more broadly on how institutions of medicine and higher education across the country face these...

Longwood Interfaith Dinner

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Join the Presidential Initiative on Interfaith Engagement for a shared meal bringing together Longwood affiliates and Harvard students to explore big questions about religion, spirituality, and ethics. Open to all current Longwood affiliates (students...

HMS Community Igniting STEM Career Interests of Boston Middle School Students

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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...

13th Annual Cancer Disparities Research Symposium

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"Focusing on Patient Navigation" In Recognition of National Minority Cancer Awareness Month Keynote Speaker Tracy Battaglia, MD, MPH Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement, Yale Cancer Center In partnership with: Harvard Cancer Consortium...

Paths with Community

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Biomedical Science Careers Program The Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP) inspires members of every race, ethnic background, gender, and financial status to ask, “Why not me?". BSCP meets students where they are in their journey; provide a...

2025 BCHC Community Health Needs Assessment Inspires 2025-2026 DSJ Initiative

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During the 2025–2026 academic year, the Harvard Medical School Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) hosted its Discovery, Service, and Justice (DSJ) Lecture series, focusing on critical social determinants shaping health in Boston. Grounded...

Interfaith Dinner

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Are you interested in learning about the lived experiences of other religious, ethical, and spiritual students at Harvard? Join us for conversation over a delicious meal. Open to students from all traditions and backgrounds. This event is hosted by the...

Longwood Interfaith Dinner

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Are you interested in learning about the lived experiences of other religious, ethical, and spiritual students at Harvard? Join us for conversation over a delicious meal. Vote for the conversation topic and suggest your favorite dinner options! Only open...