DMH Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Teaching
Several Department of Mental Health faculty and course instructors received "excellent" course rankings from students during the fourth term of the 2024–2025 academic year and the 2025 Summer Institutes.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has a long tradition and a firm commitment to providing its students with instruction of the highest quality. Each term, the School recognizes faculty who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the School through their excellence in teaching.
Excellence in teaching stimulates intellectual curiosity and prepares students to address the most challenging public health problems facing the world today.
Congratulations to the Department of Mental Health faculty and course instructors listed below for receiving “excellent” course rankings from students during the fourth term of the 2024–2025 academic year and the 2025 Summer Institutes.
Fourth Term
Luciana Assini Meytin
Associate Scientist
Course: Childhood Victimization: A Public Health Perspective
Jura L. Augustinavicius
Assistant Professor – Adjunct
Course: Climate Change and Mental Health: Research, Practice, and Policy Perspectives
Judy Bass
Professor
Course: Seminars in Research in Public Mental Health
Joseph Gallo
Professor
Course: The Intersection of Mental and Physical Health
Renee Johnson
Professor
Course: Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy
Elizabeth Letourneau
Professor
Course: Childhood Victimization: A Public Health Perspective
Brion Maher
Professor
Course: Introduction to Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics
Jeanine Parisi
Teaching Professor
Course: Strategies for Success: Public Mental Health Career Development and Beyond
Adam Spira
Professor
Course: Mental Health in Later Life
Johannes Thrul
Associate Professor
Course: Digital and Mobile Health Research in Public Mental Health
Holly Wilcox
Professor
Course: Suicide as a Public Health Problem
Summer Institutes
Amie Bettencourt
Associate Professor
Course: School-Based Preventive Interventions and Research
Luther G. Kalb
Associate Professor
Course: Public Health Approaches to the Good Life
Sabriya L. Linton
Associate Professor
Course: Photovoice for Mental Health Research and Action
Elise Pas
Research Professor
Course: School-Based Preventive Interventions and Research
Matthew Reid
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine
Course: Sleep and Public Health
Darlynn Rojo-Wissar
Course Instructor
Course: Sleep and Public Health
Adam Spira
Professor
Course: Sleep and Public Health
Criteria
Honorees are those instructors who received an average score of 3.6 or above (on a four-point scale) in both the Overall Course and Overall Instructor categories of their student course evaluations with a response rate of 70% or higher.