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Classes began today for Harvard students from Longwood to Cambridge. While many students, including me, are still figuring out what courses to take for the next 8-16 weeks, I sense a lot of energy and excitement brewing around campus. This is a historic moment for those of us in public health. I am reminded of this constantly by the announcements in the daily Student News about town hall meeting road trips and rallys to discuss health care reform, as well as the frequent headline stories of the Boston Globe and New York Times.

I am certain that health reform will be a topic in many of our classes (whether taken here or at the Kennedy School), and I hope that this blog can inspire and be a forum for student-led discussion.

There lots of new faces at HSPH who will likely contribute great ideas, experiences, and lessons to the classroom discussions here at school. I hope that this blog can be a forum that expands the classroom beyond Kresge and FXB and makes them available for a wider audience of people interested in public health at Harvard.

So I pose this question to you (whomever you are...)

What are you looking forward to this year (or semester) at HSPH?