The 42nd Retreat will be held on

September 27-29, 2024

The Eva Neer Memorial Lecture will be delivered by

Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.

The 41st Annual Retreat was held on September 29-October 1, 2023

The Eva Neer Memorial Lecture was delivered by

Rochelle Walensky, M.D., M.P.H

"An Action-Oriented Response to Public Health: Where we were, where we are, and where we need to go"

This year's lecture was delivered by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital.

The 40th Annual Retreat was held September 30-Ocober 2, 2022

Cape Cod, MA

The Eva Neer Memorial Lecture was delivered by

Marcella Alsan, M.D., Ph.D.

"Microeconomics of Health Inequality”

Marcella Alsan is a physician-economist studying health inequality domestically and internationally. Alsan received a BA from Harvard University, a master’s in public health from Harvard School of Public Health, a MD from Loyola University, and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. She trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Howard Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency Fellowship – then combined the PhD training with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to returning to Harvard she was tenured at Stanford. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and Co-Chair of the Health Care Delivery Initiative of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab based out of MIT, co-recipient of the 2019 Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics, the 2021 William G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics and in 2021 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. For more information please see https://www.healthinequalitylab.org/

The 39th Annual Retreat Was held October 1-3, 2021

The Eva Neer Memorial Lecture was delivered by
Jonathan Abraham, M.D., Ph.D.

The annual fall retreat, organized by the program students and staff, is the most important collegial activity of the academic year. First held in 1983, this retreat takes place at a local New England conference center. HMS sponsors the retreat, with financial assistance from industry donors. Faculty members active on program committees are also invited. The retreat is highly interactive. The program varies from year to year, but usually includes oral presentations and posters by students about their thesis research, and discussions about postgraduate training and career choices. In addition, a prominent physician-scientist is invited to give a keynote lecture, named for Eva Neer, M.D., a strong faculty supporter of the program who died of breast cancer in 2000.