HBS Awards and Accomplishments: July 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. On July 23, six HBS and Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) faculty and staff presented their work at a virtual COVID-19 Research Forum. “A Socio-Ecological Perspective on COVID-19 Research” explored a range of topics, from information ecosystems to injury prevention. Presenters included Rajiv Rimal, PhD, Carl Latkin, PhD, Andrea Gielen, PhD, Lisa Cooper, MD, Joanna Cohen, PhD, and Dominick Shattuck, PhD.
     
  2. Eight HBS faculty received Term 4 Excellence in Teaching Awards based on the strength of their student course evaluations. The awardees included: Lauren Czaplicki, PhD, Tyler Derreth, PhD, Danielle German, PhD, Ryan Kennedy, PhD, Krystal Lee, EdD, Paul Locke, DrPH, Douglas Storey, and Peter Winch, MD. 
     
  3. Two HBS faculty members, Maria Augusta Carrasco, PhD and Rajiv Rimal, PhD, were appointed to the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Behavioral Insights and Health. Carrasco holds an associate appointment in the department, and Rimal is department chair.
     
  4. Incoming HBS PhD student, Evan Eschilman, published a new Health Affairs article on police transparency and public health.
     
  5. Abenaa Jones, PhD, an HBS postdoctoral fellow working with Carl Latkin, PhD, submitted a K01 application titled “Opioid Use Disorder among Criminal Justice-Involved Women: Integrating Trauma-Informed and Gender-Specific Care with Medication-Assisted Treatment” that was scored in the top one percent on its first submission. It is pending funding. Jones also accepted a tenure-track position as part of the Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse at Penn State.
     
  6. HBS faculty member, Michelle Kaufman, PhD, joined MENTOR : The National Mentoring Partnership for a special webinar to discuss the results of her new study examining COVID-19’s impact on mentoring relationships.
     
  7. HBS doctoral student, Kristy Marynak, spent the summer serving CDC’s COVID-19 response in the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the Community Intervention and Critical Population Task Force. Marynak led the development of a question module to examine knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions to mitigate COVID-19 spread during influenza season. She is the CDC lead for an upcoming early release Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of medical care delay and avoidance due to concerns about COVID-19.
     
  8. HBS faculty member, Meghan Moran, PhD, was awarded Public Sector Consultation Funds from the Bloomberg American Health Initiative for her work with the Vermont Department of Health’s PACE study, which aims to analyze how state-level communication and policy shape substance use amongst young people in Vermont.
     
  9. HBS faculty member, Ju Park, PhD, received funding for her one-year Center for Aids Research (CFAR) supplement: “Optimizing PrEP Engagement among Cisgender Heterosexual Women and their Partners.”
     
  10. HBS faculty member, Roland Thorpe, PhD was named president-elect of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS).