Bukiwe Sihlongonyane

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2022

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School
Boston University School of Public Health

Undergraduate School
Dartmouth College

Mentor
Renee Landers, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School

Agency
Boston Public Health Commission

Supervisor
PJ McCann, Deputy Chief of Staff and Former Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Description of Fellowship
Bukiwe will be working with PJ McCann, Deputy Director for Policy & Planning, and Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, Executive Director, at the Boston Public Health Commission on a strategic plan for preparing for the next pandemic for the City of Boston. She will evaluate the effectiveness of city-wide messaging during the COVID-19 outbreak, and collect lessons-learned with the goal of improving effectiveness.