Congratulations

• Kristen McCormick, MS, MA, promoted to Academic Program Manager

• 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

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