Urban Health Institute
PFRH Noon seminar
September 10, 2014
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Mission
To serve as a catalyst that brings together the
resources of Johns Hopkins Institutions with the
City of Baltimore, and especially East Baltimore
to improve the community’s health and wellbeing, and in so doing serve as a model of
community-university collaboration regionally
and nationally.
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Goals
• To serve as a primary portal between JHI and Baltimore
• To serve as a forum that brings JHI and community
leaders together
• To collaborate on efforts aimed to improve the health
and well-being of our community
• To help strengthen the capacity of the Baltimore
community
• To initiate long-term, sustainable interventions in
conjunction with existing resources that improve the
health and well-being of the citizens of Baltimore
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Core Content Areas and
Activities
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Health Services and Programs
Community-University Engagement
Academic Engagement
Education Engagement
Community Engagement/Capacity
Building
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Health Services and Programs
• J-Chip: UHI Coordinates and leads the
Community Engagement Activities
• Health and Wellbeing of Baltimore’s
Children,Youth and Family Report
• Community Health Initiative
• Colorectal Cancer Screening
Program: reducing disparities
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Academic Activities
• Baltimore Researchers’ Dinners
• Small Grants Awards: undergraduate, graduate and
faculty
• Provost-UHI Symposium on The Social Determinants
of Health
• Presidents’ Award for Research that Improves the
Health and Wellbeing of Baltimore
• Baltimore Data Day collaboration with BNIA
• Urban Health focal area in the School of Public Health
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UHI Research Activities
• You Gotta Have Faith: a collaboration with STAR
to explore theBlack Church teaching of sex education.
• Community Based Assets Mapping Project: Part
of CHI to assess neighborhood based human capital
upon which to develop community initiatives.
• Wellbeing of Adolescents in Vulnerable
Environments: a 5 country study of young people
who live in the poorest sections of Baltimore,
Johannesburg, Ibadan, Shanghai and Delhi
• Global Early Adolescent Study: a 10 country study
of the formation of gender norms in early adolescence
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Community Engagement
Activities
• Baltimore Book Club
• Henrietta Lacks Award: communityuniversity partnership
• Quarterly Symposia
• Skolnick Memorial Lecture
• Facilitation
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Community Engagement
Activities
Capacity Building Workshops
• Program Evaluation
• Grant writing
• Effective Leadership and Management
• Business skills for the corner store
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Education Engagement
• Henderson-Hopkins-Weinberg Early
Childhood Development Center
• Undergraduate and Graduate level
course development on urban health
and development
• Social Determinants of Educational
Attainment series
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Student Opportunities
(volunteer and paid)
• Literature Review for Colorectal Cancer
Screening project
• Asset Mapping: Analyzing data for community
stories with follow-on interviews
• Assist in identifying researchers at local
universities whose work focuses on Baltimore
• Become part of Social Media team
• Serve as RA for Health of Baltimore report
• Assist community organization to analyze data
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Student Opportunities
(volunteer and paid)
• 15th Anniversary Celebration
– Participate in identifying Hopkins and community
performing groups; staff planning committee
• Social Determinants of Health
Participate in the planning; assist in developing
discussion groups; identify speakers write briefs
• Baltimore Dialogues
– Background on book/author
– Write blog post following discussion
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