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.

Events

ALACRITY Center’s Advanced Methods for Mental Health Services Research Webinar Series

• Topic: Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating Mental Health Policy
• Presenter: Nicholas J. Seewald, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
• Date/Time:  March 19th from 11:00am - 12:15pm

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Dr. Christina Yuan Presents at the Lauren Benishek Memorial Armstrong Institute Patient Safety Grand Round

• Topic: Centering Relationships in Efforts to Improve Patient Safety and Quality
• Presenter: Christina T. Yuan, Ph.D., M.P.H.,
  Associate Research Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Principal Faculty, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and Associate Director, NIMH P50 Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness
• Date/Time: Thursday, March 27, | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.

• Location: In person in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Chevy Chase Bank Auditorium, or via Zoom 

   

Johns Hopkins Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research Grand Rounds

• April 23, 2025 - Dr. Joseph Gennusa will present, “Recruitment, Retention, Challenges and Successes from Trials for People with Serious Mental Illness”
• Apr 30, 2025 - Ms. Stacy Goldsholl will present, “From Clinical Trial to Community Implementation: Adapting a Weight Management Program for People Living with Serious Mental Illness”

Grand Rounds are scheduled from 12:15-1:15 p.m.

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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!