HBS Awards and Accomplishments: December 2020

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HBS Awards and Accomplishments

A monthly series featuring ten awards and accomplishments across the Department of Health, Behavior & Society.

1. Ten HBS faculty members received AY 2020 – 2021 Excellence in Teaching Awards for their Term 1 courses.

2. Three HBS faculty members received AY 2020 – 2021 Excellence in Teaching Awards for their Summer and Summer Institute courses.

3. S. Wilson Beckham, PhD, won a supplement to his K01 award with the National Institute of Mental Health. His project, in collaboration with the Emory University School of Public Health’s American Men’s Internet Survey, will address preferences for injectable PrEP among men who have sex with men in the U.S.

4. HBS doctoral student, Amelia Jamison, published a new paper in METHODS titled “Use of a Qualitative Story Deck to Create Scenarios and Uncover Factors Associated with African American Participation in Genomics Research.”

5. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation appointed HBS faculty member, Vanya Jones, PhD, as the new co-director of the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program.

6. Tahilin Sanchez Karver, PhD, passed her final oral exams on December 16, 2020.

7. HBS faculty member, Michelle Kaufman, PhD, and doctoral student, John Mark Wiginton, published a new paper in JMIR Formative Research titled “Mentoring Young African American Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex With Men on Sexual Health: Formative Research for an HIV Mobile Health Intervention for Mentors.”

8. HBS faculty members, Mindi Levin, MS; Janice Bowie, PhD; Steven Ragsdale, MSL; and Lisa Cooper, MD, published a new paper in the Annual Review of Public Health titled “Enhancing Community Engagement by Schools and Programs of Public Health in the United States.”

9. HBS doctoral student, Amelia Noor-Oshiro, received a Minority Scholarship from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology to participate in a workshop on structural equation modeling.

10. HBS faculty member Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD, received the 2020 Dean’s Award for Distinction in Faculty Mentoring. The award acknowledges faculty who “have demonstrated a sustained commitment to excellence in fostering the scientific, academic, and/or career development success of fellow faculty members at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health."