ALACRITY Center for Health & Longevity in Mental Illness

Improving Health and Longevity Among People With Serious Mental Illness

The ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness at Johns Hopkins is funded as part of the National Institute of Mental Health Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) P50 Centers Program. Our Center uses cutting-edge transdisciplinary methods to advance short- and long-term strategies to reduce premature mortality in the population with serious mental illness.

People with serious mental illness currently die 10-20 years earlier than the overall population.  Early death in people with serious mental illness is driven by high rates of cardiovascular disease and other physical health conditions. Interventions shown to improve physical health among people with serious mental illness in clinical trials have not been widely adopted in community mental health programs. Through research, training, and community partnerships, the Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center seeks to speed translation of effective interventions to improve physical health and reduce premature mortality among people with serious mental illness into everyday practice.

Our Team

We have diverse staff members with a range of expertise working on ALACRITY Center projects.

ALACRITY Team

Our Work

Research The ALACRITY Center is an innovative research-to-practice translation center that uses transdisciplinary research methods to advance strategies to reduce premature mortality in the population with serious mental illness.
Training Opportunities Through various training opportunities, the Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center is developing a cadre of researchers and community partners focused on reducing premature mortality in serious mental illness.
Partnerships A Community Advisory Board comprised of community mental health program leaders, mental health advocates, and consumers with serious mental illness and other key stakeholders plays an integral role in the Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center’s work.

News & Events

Events

Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center Research in Progress Meeting

Topic: Telehealth, Assets, and Access to Mental Health Care

Photograph of Dr. Catherine K. Ettman

Dr. Catherine K. Ettman

Using electronic health records from Johns Hopkins Health System, we explore the influence of telehealth on access to mental health care among patients with depression. The presentation will cover trends in use of telehealth over time, volume of mental health care in primary and psychiatric settings, and differences in use of telehealth across patient groups.

Presenter: Catherine K. Ettman, PhD,  Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Date/Time:  May 21st from 11:00am - 12:00pm

Zoom: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/95819309866

 

Announcements

Congratulations to the IMPACT study team for their recent publication, 'Promoting Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Treatment in Community Mental Health Clinics: Results of a Pilot Implementation Study' in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry!

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