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A monthly series featuring ten awards and accomplishments across the Department of Health, Behavior & Society.

1. On August 31, HBS officially welcomed 27 new master’s and doctoral students to this year’s Virtual Plus Campus for the .
2. , PhD, and , ScD, collaborated to launch the HBS Café, a new, virtual weekly event series to foster informal opportunities for members of the HBS community to connect.
3. HBS faculty members, , ScD, and , PhD, were elected to the HBS Executive Committee. Each will serve a two-year term.
4. HBS postdoctoral fellow, Rachel Bleiweiss-Sande, PhD, and faculty member, , PhD, received a  from Fogarty International Center, through CFDR Global. They plan to evaluate the food environments in U.S.-Mexico border towns from a healthy eating and community food security perspective.
5. The “Waking up to Climate Change: Cool Roofs, Sleep, and Health in Baltimore City” research project, which aims to evaluate cool roofs as a solution to minimize the urban heat island effect, . HBS faculty members, , PhD, and , PhD, are co-investigators on the project. , PhD, and , PhD, are the primary investigators.
6. HBS doctoral student, Naomi Greene, published  titled “Examining Disparities in Excessive Alcohol Use Among Black and Hispanic Lesbian and Bisexual Women in the United States: An Intersectional Analysis” in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
7. HBS doctoral student, Amelia Jamison, published  in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review titled “Not just conspiracy theories: vaccine opponents and proponents add to the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ on Twitter.”
8. HBS doctoral student, Kristy Marynak,  titled “Delay or Avoidance of Medical Care Because of COVID-19-Related Concerns – United States, June 2020” in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Marynak aided the CDC’s COVID-19 response in the Monitoring and Evaluation unit of the Community Intervention and Critical Population Task Force over the summer.
9. HBS alum, , PhD ’19, appeared on a new episode of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative's The American Health Podcast, to , an organization dedicated to fostering long-term community resiliency in Puerto Rico. Rivera and her co-founder, Hadi Esieley-Barrera, established the group in the aftermath of Hurricane María.
10. Kristin Schneider, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in HBS, published a  titled “Conceptualizing overdose trauma: The relationships between experiencing and witnessing overdoses with PTSD symptoms among street-recruited female sex workers in Baltimore, Maryland” in the International Journal of Drug Policy.