Urban Health Institute
September 2, 2015
www.urbanhealth.jhu.edu
UHI Mission
To serve as a catalyst that brings together
the resources of Johns Hopkins Institutions
with the City of Baltimore – especially East
Baltimore – to improve the community’s
health and well-being, and in so doing serve
as a model of community-university
collaboration regionally and nationally.
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UHI Goals
• Serve as a bridge between JHI and Baltimore
• Facilitate collaborations between JHI and the Baltimore community
around research, community projects, program
planning/implementation and evaluation.
• Strengthen the capacity of the Baltimore community by bringing the
knowledge and skills available through JHI to community identified
needs and issues;
• Strengthen the academic offerings and opportunities within JHI as they
relate to urban health and development;
• Initiate sustainable, collaborative interventions that will improve the
health and well-being of Baltimore and the East Baltimore
community.
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UHI Staff
Director: Robert Blum
Program Director: Amy Gawad
Staff
• Communications Manager: Lisa Libowitz
• Program Coordinator: Michelle Martin-Daniels
• Administrative Coordinator: Natalie Sager
Associate Directors
• Phil Leaf, School of Public Health (Sr. Associate)
• Terri Powell, School of Public Health
• Eric Rice, School of Education
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UHI Structure
• The UHI is a university-wide institute, not a school
program
• Reports to the Provost of the University
• Advisory Board of deans from across the institution
and the head of JHMI
• Community University Coordinating Council:
comprised of 11 Hopkins and 11 community
leaders who have responsibility for programmatic
leadership and guidance
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Awards & Recognitions
Henrietta Lacks Award
• Honors a community program partnering with
Hopkins that has had a significant impact on the
health and vitality of the Baltimore community.
• Recipient announced on Saturday, October 10
Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture
Student Opportunity: Participate in site visit(s),
write a brief feature story on the awardee and
runners-up
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Awards & Recognitions
President’s Translational Research
Recognition Award
• Recognizes junior and senior faculty at JHU whose
work improves the health and wellbeing of
Baltimore
Student opportunity: Write a brief feature stories
about the awardees work, focusing on their impact
on the community
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Baltimore Dialogues
• Held in the basement of Amazing Grace Lutheran
Church on McElderry St.
• Uses books to explore issues of race, power and
privilege. Three dialogues to be held in 2015-16.
• First discussion on September 21 from 11:30am
to 1:30 PM with Kathy Edin: $2 a day: Living on Almost
Nothing in America.
Student Opportunity: Read book, participate in discussion,
write a story about the event, incorporating highlights
from the discussion and the book
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Small Grants Program
• Opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students
as well as faculty ($3000, $5000 and $10,000
respectively)
Student Opportunities:
– Undertake an evaluation of the small grants program
– Visit sites, interview grantees and write brief stories on each
program
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Baltimore Researcher Dinners
• Dinners held to bring the Baltimore researchers
together across all university colleges and universities
• Three to be offered this coming year (dates
forthcoming)
– Place and Health
– Witnessing Violence: consequences and approaches
– Community redevelopment: who benefits?
Student Opportunity: Participation will be open to
students whose research focuses on Baltimore
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Latino Health
• UHI supports 4 small grants for student and faculty
collaborations in Latino Health
• Supports the Latino Health Conference
Student Opportunities:
– Participate on the planning committee of the second
Latino Health Conference
– Write a brief (or briefs) summarizing Latino Health
Conference
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UHI-Provost Symposium on
Social Determinants of Health
Held annually on issues of importance for Baltimore (attracts
800+ registrants)
– 2014 Symposium: The Epidemic of Incarceration
– 2015 Symposium: Community-Level Trauma: its causes, consequences,
solutions
– 2016 Racism: strategies to get beyond a divided city
Student Opportunities:
• Participate on planning group (first planning meeting for 2016 SDH:
Sept 17, 5-7pm)
• Write topic-specific briefs leading up to the symposium
• Work with high school and middle school students on related
projects
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Hopkins in Baltimore Series
Goal: Increase Student and Faculty Engagement
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October: School of Public Health
November: School of Nursing
December: School of Education
February: School of Medicine
March: Arts and Sciences
April: Carey Business School
Student Opportunities:
• Assist with the planning
• Write brief news story about each program for website and
targeted dissemination.
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Capacity Building Workshops
Three one-day workshops currently planned
– Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring & Evaluation (9/25,
9am-4pm, location tbd)
– Grant writing (to be held jointly with PFRH student
workshop)
– Business skills for the NGO/ small business owners
Student Opportunities:
• Assist with an evaluation of our capacity building
workshops
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Project
• Continue: goal to reduce CRC disparities in Baltimore
• Funded in 2014-15 with $25,000 grant from Tobacco
Restitution Fund. Currently $125,000 grant pending
• Implementation phase: assist in identifying and reaching
the most difficult to engage with screening.
Student Opportunity:
• Assist with project implementation in the community
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Trauma-Informed Programming
• Develop a center of excellence on Adverse Childhood
Experiences (ACES)
• Undertake a survey of providers (police, teachers, social
service providers and health care providers) in Baltimore to
identify childhood and current trauma exposures
• Serve as an information center that tracks trauma-informed
work in Baltimore
Student Opportunities:
– Participate in conceptualizing center of excellence
– Participate in grant writing
– Participate in research and data collection
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Want to Get Involved?
If any of these student opportunities are
of interest, or for more information,
contact:
Amy Gawad, UHI Program Director
[email protected]
410-502-7473
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