News & Events
New Advanced Methods Training Videos Available!
"Building Effective Adaptive Interventions in Mental Health Services Research" - Dr. Nicholas Seewald, PhD
"Using Difference-in-Differences in Mental Health Services Research" - Ms. Elizabeth Stone, MSPH, PhD candidate
"Methods for Combining Experimental and Population Data to Estimate Population Average Treatment Effects" - Dr. Elizabeth Stuart, PhD
Recent News
CONGRATULATIONS to our ALACRITY Center team members, Joseph Gennusa and Stacy Goldsholl for their new appointment as Welch Center Associate Faculty!
Announcing Request for Proposals from the Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center - concept notes due 12/2/2024
The Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness is pleased to announce Requests for Proposals for our 2025 Pilot Grant Program on topics related to improving physical health and addressing premature mortality for persons with serious mental illness.
Johns Hopkins faculty at all levels are welcome to apply and can request funding for 1-2 years up to $50,000 per year. Concept notes are due 12/2/2024.
For more information, see the Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center's R03 Pilot Grant RFP for 2025. Please contact us with questions at alacritycenter@jhmi.edu.
We are thrilled to announce our successful competitive renewal for the ALACRITY P50 Center for Translation of Interventions to Decrease Premature Mortality in Persons with Serious Mental Illness!
Upcoming Events
The next Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center Research in Progress meeting
Wednesday, December 18th from 11am to noon via Zoom.
We are honored to hear from Dr. Jiani Yu as she presents ‘Medicare Telehealth Delivery during the Public Health Emergency and Beyond.’ Dr. Yu is a health services researcher with a specialization in health economics, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research primarily revolves around two major themes: 1) the impacts of telehealth utilization on access to care, and health care quality and costs; and 2) health care delivery strategies and gaps in the workforce that impact medical care and quality of life for Medicare beneficiaries, with a focus on nursing home residents.
The presentation will examine the implications of broader access to telehealth among the Medicare population, and highlight the types of physicians and patients most likely to be impacted by the potential expiration of Medicare telehealth flexibilities.
Past Events
NAMIWalks
June 1, 2024 from 8-11AM at Hunt Valley Towne Center
ALACRITY Center team members participated in NAMI Maryland's annual NAMIWalks event to promote mental health awareness
ALACRITY Center Research-in-Progress Meeting
November 20, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. - Noon ET
- Presenter: Kiara Alvarez, PhD is a Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine. She is a licensed psychologist.
- Presentation: Systems-level suicide prevention in pediatric settings: Leveraging the roles of caregivers and community health workers
- Contact: alacritycenter@jhmi.edu
Trainings
Center for Practice Transformation at the University of Minnesota
- Stacy D. Goldsholl, MA presented, Smoking Cessation in Field-Based Mental Health Services
Department of Mental Health+UCLA Public Mental Health Partnership
- Joseph V. Gennusa, PhD, RDN, LDN presented, What Field-Based Mental Health Service Providers Need to Know About Cardiovascular Disease Risk
- Stacy D. Goldsholl, MA presented, Smoking Cessation in Community Mental Health Services
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Invited Talks
Drs. Christina Yuan and Joseph Gennusa presented, Translating Evidence-based Practices to Improve Physical Health Among People with Serious Mental Illness: Progress and Promise for the Future at the Johns Hopkins Department of Mental Health Wednesday Seminar Series (November 29, 2023).
Dr. Gail Daumit and Stacy Goldsholl, MA, participated in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing RESILIENCE Center Built to Scale Series to discuss scaling evidence-based programs for reducing cardiovascular disease risk in community mental health settings (November 8, 2023). Access the recording here.
Dr. Joseph Gennusa presented at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Advanced Seminar in Health Equity Research, The Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness (October 24, 2023).
Dr. Gail Daumit presented at Rochester University Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Reaching Cardiovascular Health Equity for Persons with Serious Mental Illness (October 18, 2023).
Johns Hopkins Welch Center Grand Rounds
On November 1st, Dr. Rheanna Platt presented, Promoting Maternal Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care and Early Childhood Settings
On November 8th, Dr. Christina Yuan presented, Preparing for Launch: Using a Community-Engaged Approach to Planning an Implementation Trial to Advance Cardiovascular Health Equity
Conferences
Christina Yuan, PhD, MPH presented, A Community-Engaged Process for Adapting a Cardiovascular Health Intervention for Persons with Serious Mental Illness at the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health in December 2023.
Dr. Joseph Gennusa presented at the NAMI Maryland Annual Conference, What Community Mental Health Providers and Caregivers Need to Know About Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors (October 13, 2023).