Graduation
Welcome, graduates! The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard University look forward to celebrating and documenting your achievements.
Convocation speaker
Dr. Céline Gounder, an internationally renowned epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, will deliver the Convocation speech for the Class of 2025.
Dr. Gounder has dedicated her career to advancing public health and education. A physician by training, she has traveled all over the world to care for patients fighting deadly diseases, including screening high-risk individuals in Brazil and southern Africa for tuberculosis and volunteering as an aid worker in Guinea during the 2015 Ebola outbreak.
A clinical associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Dr. Gounder has also advised policymakers on urgent public health issues ranging from Ebola to mpox to COVID-19. Notably, she helped shape the federal COVID-19 strategy in late 2020 and early 2021, a pivotal time in the pandemic.
A skillful communicator and public health advocate, Dr. Gounder has written compellingly about health disparities, mental health, gun violence, and the opioid abuse epidemic in the U.S., often providing a platform for underrepresented voices. Today, she is the editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News as well as a CBS News medical contributor.