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2025 Commencement Ceremony
Friday, June 13, 2025
Location: Epstein Family Amphitheater
10 am – 12 pm: Commencement ceremony
Attention graduate students:
Please ensure that you register only for the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science ceremony and not the Division of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs (GEPA) ceremony. If you have already registered for the GEPA ceremony, please note that your registration with GEPA will be voided. For further questions or assistance, please contact Carrie Goldsmith at cgoldsmith@health.ucsd.edu.
Keynote Speaker - Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH
Dr. Tomás Aragón is the former state health officer and director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). Striving to embody and promote the universal values of dignity, equity, compassion and belonging, he works to transform systems and policies towards a culture of equity, antiracism, healing and health for all people and our planet. As state public health officer, he exercised leadership and legal authority to protect health, promote well-being, and prevent disease and injury. As CDPH director, he led the largest state health department on its journey of becoming a learning, healing and impactful organization. He promotes youth mental health, well-being and resilience. Leveraging ethics, science and technology, he promotes human decision intelligence to improve team decision making in the face of uncertainty, complexity and time constraints. As a former R programming instructor, he now promotes the Julia language for scientific computing and blogs on Substack.
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