Alumni News: Fall 2025
Alumni honors, career moves, and items of note
J. Jacques Carter, MPH ’83, has been appointed incoming chair of the Massachusetts Prostate Cancer Coalition. Carter is a physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, consulting staff at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and faculty at Harvard Medical School, whose priorities are well-aligned with one of the coalition’s main focuses: education. In a recent press release, he said: “We need to strive to ensure that high risk men are educated about this disease and know what their risks are. Armed with this information, patients and their families can make informed decisions about whether to be screened or not.”
Rainu Kaushal, MPH ’00, health services researcher, information scientist, and physician leader, was named senior associate dean of health data science at Weill Cornell Medicine in August. Kaushal, the Nanette Laitman Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences, has served Weill Cornell Medicine for nearly 20 years, most recently as chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences since 2013—a role she continues to hold—and senior associate dean for clinical research since 2020.
Alejandro De Los Angeles, MPH ’25 was selected for a 2025 STAT Wunderkind, an award that recognizes the work of early-career scientists and clinicians.
Bookshelf
Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?: Why Our Mental Health System Is Failing Us and What Should Be Done to Cure It (Prometheus, 2025) by Robert C. Smith, SM ’99
In this examination of America’s mental health crisis, Robert C. Smith draws on decades of clinical experience and evidence-based research to exposes the gap between physical and mental health treatment.
In memoriam
Norma Swenson, MPH ’73, died May 11 at age 93. She was a co-founder of Our Bodies Ourselves, and co-author of most editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, the groundbreaking women’s health and sexuality guide. She was an adjunct lecturer at Harvard Chan School for nearly 20 years. Read her New York Times obituary.
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