A monthly series featuring ten awards and accomplishments across the Department of Health, Behavior & Society.
- 11 HBS faculty members received AY 2021-2021 Excellence in Teaching Awards in recognition of their outstanding instruction during their Term 2 courses.
- S. Wilson Beckham, PhD
- Zackary Berger, MD
- Chris Beyrer, MD
- Leslie Biesecker, MD
- Megan Cho, ScM
- Lori Erby, PhD
- Caitlin Kennedy, PhD
- Ryan Kennedy, PhD
- Meghan Moran, PhD
- Debra Roter, DrPH
- Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD
- HBS faculty members, Janice Bowie, PhD, and Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, published a new paper titled “Church Attendance and Mobility Limitation Among Black and White Men With Prostate Cancer” in the American Journal of Men’s Health.
- HBS faculty member, Carl Latkin, PhD, published a new paper titled “Mask usage, social distancing, racial, and gender correlates of COVID-19 vaccine intentions among adults in the US.” HBS doctoral student, Lauren Dayton, and HBS staff member, Grace Yi, contributed to the article, featured in PloS One.
- HBS faculty members, Danetta Sloan, PhD, and Amy Knowlton, ScD, published a new article titled “A mixed-methods exploration of faith, spirituality, and health program interest among older African Americans with HIV” in Quality of Life Research.
- HBS faculty member, Sara Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, published a new paper assessing links between governors’ party affiliation and rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.
- HBS faculty member, Lisa Cooper, MD, contributed to a new Insights Report published in NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery titled “Health Inequity and Racism Affects Patients and Health Care Workers Alike.”
- HBS faculty member, Vanya Jones, PhD, published a paper in the Journal of Community Psychology titled “Factors associated with successful mentor matching in an intervention study of youth violence.”
- HBS faculty member, Michelle Kaufman, PhD, and her team at JHSPH received $150,000 in grant funding to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth mentoring.
- Catherine Tomko, PhD, passed her final oral exams.
- HBS faculty member, Cui Yang, PhD, published a new study in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, which revealed limited awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis among patients at public STI clinics in Baltimore.
