HBS Awards and Accomplishments: June 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. HBS faculty member, Sara Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, served on the Committee on Scoping Existing Guidelines for Feeding Recommendations for Infants and Young Children Under Age 2. The Committee’s new report, Feeding Infants and Children from Birth to 24 Months: Summarizing Existing Guidance, was released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
     
  2. HBS professor, Janice Bowie, PhD, delivered a special, virtual Dean’s Lecture on Community-Centered Public Health Research and Practice. Bowie was also selected as a 2020 inductee into the Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins project, which honors Black students, faculty, and staff for their exceptional contributions to the University.
     
  3. Lauren Dayton, a fourth-year doctoral student in HBS, was named a 2020 Tutu Doctoral Fellow by the Center for Health and Human Rights.
     
  4. Andrea Gielen, ScD, HBS faculty member and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, collaborated with Joshua Sharfstein, MD, on a new research letter surrounding public opinion on crib bumpers, published in JAMA Pediatrics.
     
  5. HBS faculty member, Keilah Jacques, MSW, was selected as the featured speaker for “Juneteenth: Commemorate, Celebrate and Elevate.” The Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) event took place virtually on June 19, 2020 and drew over 400 participants.
     
  6. HBS faculty member, Vanya Jones, PhD, was awarded a Spring 2020 Small Grant from the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions for her “School interventions to interrupt conflicts before they become violent” faculty project. Jones was also named an associate director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute (UHI).
     
  7. The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) selected multiple articles from HBS faculty members, Lauren Parker, PhD, and Roland Thorpe, PhD, to feature in its “Science To Promote Racial Justice” resource, which spotlights work from IAPHS members that surrounds racism as a determinant of health.
     
  8. HBS chair, Rajiv Rimal, PhD, joined the Reduction in Anemia through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project, which works to reduce anemia rates amongst women in India, for a virtual webinar presentation at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
     
  9. HBS faculty member, Roland Thorpe, PhD, received the 2020 Minority Issues in Gerontology Outstanding Mentorship Award from the Gerontological Society of America, which acknowledges excellence in the mentorship of minority researchers in the discipline of aging.
     
  10. HBS doctoral student, Daniel Zaltz, published two first-author papers related to healthy eating policies in child care in the U.S. Collaborating with his advisor, Sara Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, Zalz and his team explored impacts of participation in a federal nutrition assistance program in a study published in BMC Public Health. In the second paper, published in Nutrients, Zaltz and his team evaluated the impact of state-level eating policy on children’s diet quality in South Carolina child care centers.