Events Round-Up

On Wednesday, November 13, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity welcomed Maya Venkataramani MD, MPH for the November Health Equity Jam Session. Dr. Venkataramani presented her talk, "The (Untapped) Potential of Multi-Generational/Family-Oriented Approaches in Advancing Health Equity: Examples from Primary Care, Prevention and Policy"

On Wednesday, October 16, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity welcomed Andrew Anderson, PhD, MHA for the October Health Equity Jam Session. Dr. Anderson presented his talk, "Building Equity into Healthcare Quality Measurement."

On Wednesday, September 11, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity welcomed Noelene K. Jeffers, PhD, CNM, IBCLC for the September Health Equity Jam Session. Dr. Jeffers presented her talk, "Redesigning Systems of Care to Promote Equity in Black Maternal Health"

On Wednesday, May 8, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Jam Session welcomed Clayton C. Yates, PhD, who presented his talk, "Reassessing Tumor Biology through the Lens of African Ancestry and Health Equity."

On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Jam Session welcomed Jessica Fanzo, PhD, who presented her talk, "The Complexities of Ensuring Sustainable Diets for All." 
 

On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Jam Session welcomed Donald Warne, MD, MPH, who presented his talk, "American Indian Health Equity."

On Wednesday, January 10, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Jam Session welcomed Oluwabunmi "Bunmi" Ogungbe, PhD, MPH, RN, who presented her talk, "Tailoring Cardiometabolic Health Interventions for our Neighbors and Around the World."

On Wednesday, December 13, 2023, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Jam Session welcomed Odis Johnson Jr., PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy & STEM Equity, who presented his talk, "Measurement and Modeling of Systemic and Structural Racism: Beyond the Durkheimian Ecological Fallacy."

On Wednesday, October 11, The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity’s JAM Session’s speaker, Sonia Angell, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, presented her talk “The Heart-Breaking Effect of Hurting Our Planet.”

On Wednesday, April 12, The Center for Health Equity’s JAM Session’s panelists K. Daniel Stoltzfus, MPA (Helping Up Mission), Kerry Hawk Lessard, MAA (Native American Lifelines, Inc.), Denis Antoine, II, MD (Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine), and Tara Maudrie, MSPH (Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health) presented their talk “Building Academic-Community Partnerships to Promote Health Equity in Baltimore.”

On Wednesday, March 8 we heard from our March Jam speaker, Joseph Ravenell, MD as he presented his talk, “Achieving Health Equity for Black Men: The Power of the Barbershop.”

On Wednesday, December 14, Health Equity JAM Session’s featured speaker Theodore "Jack" Iwashyna, MD, PhD presented his talk “Pulse Oximeters and Other Medical Devices Are Racially Biased. How Will We Know When They Are Equitable?”

On Wednesday, October 12, Health Equity JAM Session’s featured speaker Lena Mathews, MD MHS presented “Health Equity in Cardiac Rehabilitation: Understanding and Addressing Barriers to Cardiac Rehabilitation Utilization.”

On Wednesday, September 14, Health Equity JAM Session’s featured speaker Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD presented “Love, Liberation, and Reproductive Health Equity.”