The Urban Health Institute: 2012
Engaging Communities, Improving Health
Department of Population,
Family and Reproductive
Health
19 September 2012
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A Vision for the UHI
It is the vision of the UHI to bring
the resources of JHI to the major
health-related problems of Baltimore
and by so doing improve the health
and well-being of all our residents.
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The UHI core 5 zip codes
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Building a Healthier East
Baltimore,Together
The Access Partnership
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Building a Healthier East
Baltimore, Together
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CHI Comprised of All Partners
and 5 working groups
• Research Methods
• Student and Community Involvement and
Training
• Emergency Response and Intervention
• Communications and Community
Relations
• Funding and Sustainability
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Engaging the Hopkins and
Baltimore Communities to
solve problems is essential
•East Baltimore Book Club
•Baltimore Researchers’ Dinner
•Capacity building workshops: Translation of
research to effect change; Program evaluation,
grant writing.
•Reverse Research Day
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Engaging the Hopkins and
Baltimore Communities
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UHI Quarterly lecture series
Race and Research Series
Community-University-Faith Forums
Small grants program: undergraduate,
graduate student and faculty
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Honoring and Empowering the
Community
• Henrietta Lacks Award for CommunityUniversity Collaborations; HL Day Oct 6,
2012
• Presidents’ Recognition Award to
recognize research that improved the
health of Baltimore
• Summer jobs program for high school
students
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Collaborations with City agencies
and organizations
• Baltimore City Health Department: Reverse Research Day
and the Mayor’ Report on the Health of Baltimore
• The Family League of Baltimore: Baltimore Data
Repository
• EBDI: The Establishment of an Early Child Development
Center and Health facility
• Faith Community: NIH R21 grant on reproductive health
education for adolescents in Baltimore churches
• Baltimore City Public Schools: Nutrition in Schools
initiative; Improving School Climate initiative
• Latino Health Provider Network: Monthly forum on Latino
health in Baltimore
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Collaborating with the Faith
Community
You Gotta Have Faith!
• Faith-Based Adolescents Involved in Total Health (FAITH) project is a study
of faith-based youth workers’ influence on adolescent sexual health
and decision-making
• Youth who are involved in their churches are being identified by their
pastors and youth ministers to be involved in the data collection for this
project. Youth researchers were trained in ethnographic research methods
during a three day workshop in April.
• Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, President and CEO of the Religious
Coalition for Reproductive Choice, will head this a Faith Forum on
Adolescent Sexuality and Religiosity (February 2012)
• Faith and Sexuality Forum (February 16, 2013) with Reverends
Jeremiah Wright and Otis Moss III
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Strengthening the Neighborhood
• Early Child Development Center
• East Baltimore Community
School
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UHI Structure
• The UHI reports to the President of the
university through the Provost
• The UHI Advisory Board is comprised of
the CEO of JHH together with the Deans of
Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Education,
Business, Arts and Sciences
• Community-University Coordinating
Council comprised of 11Hopkins and an
equal number of community leaders
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Conclusion
“The nation needs the Johns Hopkins Urban Health
Institute to be a leader and role model on how
academic institutions engage the residents living
in the shadow of great academic health science
buildings. What you do will influence the
behavior of other universities across the country.”
Steven Thomas, PhD
Professor, University of Maryland
Chair, Site Visit Team
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