Congratulations

Promotions

• Shoshanna Fine, PhD, MPH promoted Assistant Scientist
• Kay O’Neill, MSPH, promoted Senior Research Associate
• Astha Ramaiya, DrPH, MSPH, promoted Assistant Scientist

Teaching Excellence Awards for PFRH Courses 2022-2023

Summer

• Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, Donna Strobino, PhD:
  380.601.79-Critically Evaluating the Science for Policy and Practice
• Celia Karp, PhD, Linnea Zimmerman, PhD, MPH:
  380.706.79-Using Data to Inform Family Planning Policies
• Pam Martin, MBA: 
  552.622.81-Creating, Implementing and Monitoring Budgets for Projects and Programs
• Beth Marshall, DrPH, MPH:
  380.607.11-Youth Voice in Public Health
• Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP, Jose “Oying” Rimon, PgDip, MA, Kojo Lokko, MPH, MBA:
  380.708.79-Strategic Leadership Principles and Tools for Health System Transformation in PFRH
• Kristin Mmari, DrPH, MPH:
  380.709.79-Introduction to Program Evaluation in PFRH

First Term

• M.E. Hughes, PhD, MA, Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP:
  380.604.01-Life Course Perspectives on Health

Second Term

• Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, Donna Strobino, PhD:
  380.662.41-Critiquing the Research Literature in Maternal, Neonatal, and Reproductive Health
• Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, David Paige, MD, MPH:
  380.740.81-Nutrition Programs, Policy and Politics in The United States: The Impact on Maternal, Child and Family Health
• Arik Marcell, MD, MPH:
  380.720.41-Masculinity, Sexual Behavior & Health: Adolescence & Beyond
• Beth Marshall, DrPH, MPH:
  380.721.01-Schools and Health
• Tamar Mendelson, PhD, MA:
  380.633.81-Promoting Equity for Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Problem-Solving Seminar
• Kristin Voegtline, PhD, MS:
  380.642.81-Child Health and Development
• Linnea Zimmerman, PhD, MPH:
  380.655.71-Social and Economic Aspects of Human Fertility

Awards

• Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA
  Richard D. Krugman Award for “lifelong commitment to protecting children and championing a future free of child abuse and neglect”
  National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN)
• Charvonne Holliday Nworu, PhD, MPH
  2022 Alumni Excellence Award – Early Career
  University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Grants Awards

• Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA
  University of Mississippi Medical Center (Prime: HRSA) Subcontract
  Early Childhood Health Promotion System for High Need Program (MS Thrive!)
• Michele Decker, ScD, MPH
  1. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  PMA/Agile Phase 2: GBV Evidence for Action
  2. Bloomberg American Health Initiative
  Evidence-based systems strengthening: Housing for IPV survivors
• Erin Hager, PhD
  Duke University / National Cancer Institute
  1. Expanding the impact of cancer prevention policies through collaborative implementation research: a qualitative secondary analysis of federal child nutrition assistance policies
  2. Bloomberg American Health Initiative
  Understanding Family Use of Expanded Child Tax Credit Funds: Role in Mitigating the Pandemic-Related Changes in Family Food Insecurity and Child Dietary Behaviors and Excess Weight Gain
  3. NICHD R01HD105356
  COVID-19 Policies: Impact Over Time on Child Health, Obesity, and Disparities
• Dylan Jackson, PhD, MS
  1. Arnold Ventures
  Second Chances: A National Outcomes Study of Safe and Equitable Decarceration Among People Serving Juvenile Life Without the Possibility of Parole
  2. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Shifting From Restorative to Transformative Justice in Baltimore’s Schools: Co-Developing Strategies that Center Anti-Racism to Promote School Health
• Beth Marshall, DrPH, MPH
  1. Healthy Teen Network (Prime: Office of Population Affairs)
  Center for Adolescent Health Promotion for Trauma-Informed and Inclusive Care and Programming
• Tamar Mendelson, PhD, MA
  1. Family League of Baltimore City
  FY23 Community Schools Program
  2. Bloomberg Philanthropies
  HeartSmiles Project
• Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP
  1. NHLBI
  Administrative Supplement to Early Intervention to Promote Cardiovascular Health of Mothers and Children (ENRICH) Multisite Resource and Coordinating Center
• Terri Powell, PhD, MA
  1. Stanford University (Prime: NIDA) U2C
  Research Adoption Support Center - Substance Use Disorder Implementation Support Core
• Oying Rimon, PgDip, MA
  Davis Communications
  ICFP Media
• Xiaobin Wang, MD, ScD, MPH
  1. HRSA
  Integrate Early Life Factors and Multi-Omics to Elucidate Origins and Developmental Trajectories of ASD/DD Across the Life Stages
  2. NIH/NIEHS
  U01ES034983 - Immune Development Across the Life Course: Integrating Exposures and Multi-Omics in the Boston Birth Cohort