PFRH E-NEWS Winter 2021
Congratulations
Staff
- Kristen McCormick, MS, MA, promoted to Academic Program Manager
Students and Alumni
- Reem Ghandour, DrPH '09, MPA, was awarded the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal
- Nancy Kelly, MHS '84, received the Deborah Harding Women of Achievement Award from Women of Peace Corps Legacy
- Donna Petersen, ScD '89, MHS '84, received the Martha May Eliot Award from the American Public Health Association
- Salma Tayel, MSPH Student, received a Fulbright Fellowship to explore reproductive autonomy in Egypt
- Michelle Taylor, MD, DrPH '15, MPH, confirmed as the new Director of the Shelby County Health Department
Faculty
Joint Appointments
- Eliana Perrin MD, MPH, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, School of Nursing
Faculty Promotions
- Lori Burrell, MA, LSW, promoted Senior Research Associate
- Michele Decker, ScD, MPH, promoted Professor
- Maheen Malik, MBBS, promoted Senior Associate
Faculty Transitions
- Mark Emerson, Senior Research Associate, retires from PFRH
Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards
Summer & 1st Term 2021-2022
- Pam Martin, MBA: 552.622.81, Creating, Implementing and Monitoring Budgets for Projects and Programs
Faculty Awards
- Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, RD, Associate Scientist
Receives the Advancing Health Equity Award from the Maryland Public Health Association
Faculty Grants Awards
- Phil Anglewicz, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
FHI360 (funded through USAID)
1. Tracking Reproductive Health Self-Care through PMA Surveys
2. Improved Self-Care Utilization for Women in Uganda
National Institutes of Health, Subcontract from Tulane University
PI Mark VanLandingham, Tulane University - Role: Co-Investigator
RADx-UP Rapid Research Pilot Program (RP2)
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
PMA 2020 ASH Strategic Eval (Costed Extension)
- Suzanne Bell, PhD '18, MPH, Assistant Professor
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
PMA DRC: Abortion Module
- Christy Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Scaling the Child Health and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative’s Early Childhood Cycle of Engagement model for early childhood well-child services
- Michele Decker, ScD, MPH, Professor
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Supplemental Research to Enhance Engagement & Measurement with Communities Disproportionately Affected by Sexual Violence
- Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, MA, Assistant Professor
1. R01 subaward – Michigan State University
Pregnancy-associated morbidity and mortality due to drug use, self-harm, and violence: Measurement, trends, and risk factors
2. R01 Subaward –UC Irvine
Racial Disparities in Preterm Births and Fetal Loss
3. Bloomberg American Health Initiative – Spark Award
Examining Relationships between Climate-related in Utero Exposures, Residential Greenness, and Adverse Birth Outcomes
4. Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions – Pilot Project Award
State-level Determinants of Racial Disparities in Mortality among Reproductive-Aged Women
5. Office of the Provost
JHU COVID-19 Bridge Grant
- Susan Gross, PhD '96, MPH, Associate Scientist
Bloomberg American Health Initiative
The Impact of COVID-19 and USDA waivers on Summer Meal Participation in Maryland
- Charvonne Holliday, PhD, Assistant Professor
JHU Innovation Fund for Community Safety
Abuse Intervention Supportive Services, House of Ruth Maryland
- Dylan Jackson, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor
1. Bloomberg American Health Initiative
Young Justice-Involved Parents: Addressing Needs Related to Violence, Substance Use, and Other Challenges
2. Bloomberg American Health Initiative -- Vanguard Award
Optimizing Youth-police Interactions in Baltimore City: A Pilot to Develop a Novel Police Training Curriculum
(with Rebecca Fix, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Mental Health)
- Olivia Kachingwe, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Bloomberg American Health Initiative
Sexual Health Communication Among African American LGBQ Young Adults and Their Fathers
- Kojo Lokko, MPH, MBA, Senior Associate
Bayer AG
The Challenge Initiative (TCI) – NextGen
- Beth Marshall, DrPH '11, MPH '03, Assistant Scientist
Children’s National Medical Center/United Health Foundation
Integrated School and Community Connections to Improve Health Outcomes for At-Risk Children Where They Live and Learn
- Tamar Mendelson, PhD, MA, Professor
JHU Innovation Fund for Community Safety
McElderry Multiracial Organizing Project, CASA
- Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP, Professor
State of New Jersey
New Jersey Home Visitation Initiative Evaluation
- Caroline Moreau, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor
Oak Foundation
Global Early Adolescent Study Phase III
- Asari Offiong, PhD '21, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow
Bloomberg American Health Initiative
Supporting the implementation of Bill HB0401 for pregnant and parenting adolescents in Baltimore, MD
- Jose “Oying” Rimon, PgDip, MA
1. Bayer AG
NextGen Catalyst Initiative-Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders in Family Planning and Reproductive Health
2. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Support to the 2018 and 2020 International Conferences on FP and Core Gates
- Terri Powell, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
1. Bloomberg American Health Initiative
Sexual Health Communication Among African American LGBQ Young Adults and Their Fathers
2. The University of Memphis/NIH R13
Collaborating with Faith Leaders of the Deep South to End the Epidemic of HIV Stigma
- Linnea Zimmerman, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, and Courtland Robinson, PhD, Associate Professor
Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC, a program of Elrha)
Early Marriage and Fertility Decision Making Among Conflict-affected and Displaced Adolescents in Bangladesh and Yemen