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Thursday, April 17, 2025
5:30–7:00 p.m. (ET)
Hybrid (BU Photonics Center & Zoom)
In-Person Location:
The Photonics Center, Colloquium Room (9th floor)
8 St. Mary’s St.
Boston, MA 02215
In this year’s Hubie Jones Lecture, Michael Curry, Esq., president & CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, which represents 50 health centers that serve over one million patients at 285 practice sites across the Commonwealth, will discuss the lingering inequities in health — locally and nationally — as well as their origins, the efforts in Massachusetts to address them, and the threats presented by the recent shift in federal policy. The presentation will also feature an introduction to the Health Equity Compact, a collection of over 85 leaders of color in Massachusetts who are advancing a health equity agenda for the state, as well as the launch of the nation’s first primary care association-based Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation & Policy focused on emancipatory research.
Boston University President Dr. Melissa Gilliam will open the event. Following the lecture, Professor Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, director of the Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development at BUSSW, will join Curry for a moderated conversation and Q&A with the audience. A reception with refreshments will follow.
1.5 free CE credits (pending) will be available to social workers licensed in the U.S. If you wish to receive CE credits, please provide your license number in the registration form. Event attendance and successful completion of a post-event quiz are required to receive credits.
Program:
5:30-7:00 pm l Presentation/Q&A (Hybrid)
7:00-8:00 pm l Reception (In-Person)
Accessibility
Boston University strives to be accessible, inclusive, and diverse in its facilities, programming, and academic offerings. Your experience in this event is important to us. If you have a disability (including but not limited to learning or attention, mental health, concussion, vision, mobility, hearing, physical, or other health-related issues), require communication access services for the deaf or hard of hearing, or believe that you require a reasonable accommodation for another reason, please contact the event organizer at bussw@bu.edu to discuss your needs.
About Michael Curry
Curry brings over 35 years of experience and results in civil rights advocacy, health reform and health equity. Under his leadership, The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, which provides clinical, advocacy, workforce, data, legal and compliance support for its members, has thrived. Doubling in size over the last four years with over 100 staff, the organization secured the largest contract in the association’s history at over $300 million to administer the state’s provider loan repayment program, MA Repay, and launched the nation’s first Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation & Policy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization designed to promote and engage in community-driven research, evaluation, and public policy to achieve health equity.
Among his many leadership positions, Curry held several significant roles during the COVID-19 pandemic including co-chair of the legislatively created Health Equity Task Force and serving on the Vaccine Working Group, the Department of Public Health’s Health Equity Advisory Group, the City of Boston’s Health Inequity Task Force, and the City of Brockton’s Social Justice Task Force. The experiences led him to co-launch the Health Equity Compact, a collection of over 85 c-suite leaders of color aimed at driving health equity reform in Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., New England Law Boston, and the inaugural class of the Executive Leadership Council’s Pipeline to Leadership Program.
About the Moderator
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD is a professor of Human Behavior, Research, & Policy at BUSSW and director of the Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development (IECOHD). Her research focuses on the social determinants of racial/ethnic inequities in health (e.g. residential segregation, neighborhood inequality, immigrant adaptation); the role of social policies in reducing those inequities (e.g. housing, anti-poverty, immigrant policies); and the well-being of children with special needs. She received her BA in Public Administration from El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City and her MPA-URP and PhD in Public Policy with a concentration in Demography from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
About Hubie Jones
Hubie Jones (SSW’57), dean emeritus and the School of Social Work dean from 1977 to 1993 helped shape Boston’s civic landscape for over forty-five years and has been integral in numerous community organizations within Boston’s African American population and throughout all Boston neighborhoods.
As associate and executive director at Roxbury Multi-Service Center in 1967, his Task Force on Children Out of School (now Massachusetts Advocacy Center) published the report The Way We Go to School: The Exclusion of Children in Boston, which led to the first-in-the-nation enactment of two landmark laws that focused on special education and bi-lingual education.
In 2010, Jones received the Purpose Prize, a national prize awarded to select individuals over 60 carrying out encore careers and using their skills and experience to make a difference in their communities and the nation.
About the Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health
The Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health, established in 2012 by an anonymous donor to honor the vision of Hubie Jones, is an annual symposium that addresses vexing health issues, featuring national and international leaders at the intersection of health and social justice.
Alumni and friends are encouraged to continue Hubie’s legacy through donations to the Hubie Jones Fund for Urban Social Work Practice. Your support will fund scholarships that help deserving students pursue an MSW degree, as well as research and programs in service of the BU School of Social Work’s urban mission. To donate, please click here.
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