Office of Field Education and Practice
Field education and hands-on practice are fundamental components of public health education, providing students with real-world experience and the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge in practical settings.
708 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02120
Our Team
We welcome general inquiries about field education and practice. To reach individual team members, please find contact information below.
MPH Field Practice
mph-practice@hsph.harvard.edu
William (Bill) Bean is an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Before coming to Harvard, Bill spent 20 years as an independent management consultant, working primarily with Fortune 50 companies around the world. He worked primarily with senior executives to formulate and implement innovative strategies that would generate measurable, bottom-line results within relatively short periods of time – typically within 100 days.
Early in his career he worked largely in the technology and financial services industries globally, and spent a good deal of time introducing strategic management concepts and tools to the emerging markets of India and China. His expertise lies in transforming large organizations in highly competitive, rapidly changing industries to be more agile and effective in strategy implementation.
Later in his career Bill shifted his focus to the field of global health and worked extensively with various Ministries of Health and NGOs in Africa. He was able to adapt and introduce methodologies drawn from the corporate world that would enable these Ministries and NGOs to work in a more strategic, effective and efficient. He left the corporate world in 2010 and received his MPH from Harvard in 2011, and is now on the faculty at HSPH.
Bill received his BA from Cornell University, his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, his PhD from Princeton University, and his MPH from Harvard.
Andrew is the Field Practice Manager in the Office of Educational Programs. Andrew graduated in Spring 2022 with a Masters in Public Health in Healthcare Management from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, one year after graduating with a Bachelors degree in Public Health.
Andrew was part of Massachusetts’s COVID-19 contact tracing efforts with the Community Tracing Collaborative, experience that allowed him to help those directly impacted by the pandemic.
In Andrew’s free time, he loves watching the NBA, playing with his dog, and spending time with his family.
Jocelyn Chu is the Director of Community Engaged Learning and an Instructor in the Office of Education. The focus of her work is in field based education and community engaged learning. She develops partnerships with host organizations and designs field based opportunities to engage students in team processes and leadership development. Jocelyn leads the Community Engaged Learning Fellowships program which centers on a practice of critical reflection and transformative learning. She is involved in several courses in the DrPH program and teaches SBS 501 – Community Based Participatory Research.
Jocelyn’s journey in public health started at a community health center in Boston’s Chinatown, developing programs and working alongside health educators to promote health and well being among immigrants in the community. She has spent the majority of her public health career in research and consulting. Most recently she was with John Snow, Inc. (JSI) in Boston, where she served in a variety of roles to provide technical assistance, assessment and evaluation services for state and federal agencies, and private organizations.
Jocelyn spent her formative years in Sydney, Australia, and came to the U.S. to pursue graduate studies in public health. Jocelyn received her MPH from Boston University School of Public Health and ScD in Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
As Director of Field Education and Practice, Stacey’s work focuses on developing applied and field-based learning opportunities at Harvard Chan. Previously, she worked for 10 years at Cambridge Health Alliance, with the Cambridge Public Health Department. She most recently served as the Director of the Community Health Division addressing the health of men of color, children’s oral health, violence prevention, substance abuse prevention, early childhood literacy, and health communications. She is an adviser for the Coalition of Racial Equity in Mental Health (Core Mental Health), a 6-city regional network focused on racial equity and mental health. Her work prior to public health focused on education, and sales and marketing. Stacey received an MS in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism from Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and an AB in Psychology from Brown University.
Outside of work, she experiments with gardening and cooking Nepali food.