Jennifer Beard

Cognoscenti contributor

Jennifer Beard is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health. She leads the Public Scholarship Shop at the BU Center for Antiracist Research and is co-director of the BUMC Narrative Writing Program. She is also the associate editor of Public Health Post and author of the book Teaching Public Health Writing.

Recently published

The author, third from the left, and her family. (Courtesy Jennifer Beard)

Families make us who we are. What remains after they’re gone?

Jennifer Beard lost four loved ones since 2020. I feel a heavy responsibility to remember, for all of us, she writes.

Cognoscenti

Jul 13, 2023

Friends and relatives stand at a candlelight vigil for Nicol Kimura, a victim of the Las Vegas mass shooting, at Sierra Vista Elementary School in Placentia, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017. (Reed Saxon/AP)

How To Change The Narrative On Gun Violence

The public health community needs to collaborate with journalists, write three interdisciplinary colleagues from Boston University, to increase the visibility and relevance of gun violence research.

Cognoscenti

Nov 2, 2017