Training Sites
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School Of Public Health
Contact Information
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Voice: 410-955-6887
Fax: 410-955-0470
624 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Director: Lee R. Bone
Co-Directors: Lee R. Bone, MPH and Janice Bowie, PhD, MPH
Lee Bone, R.N., M.P.H. is a co-director of the Hopkins training site at Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society. Ms. Bone's research has focused on using community based participatory approaches in randomized clinical trials testing the efficacy and program effectiveness of interventions using nurse supervised indigenous community health workers. Her current research interests include evaluation strategies and tool development in broad-based urban health initiatives which incorporate multidisciplinary approaches involving all sectors of the city (e.g., health, police, schools, housing, and employment) and community-based participatory research. Her research is focused on adult health in African-American communities, particularly as it pertains to cardiovascular disease and related risk factors (e.g., high blood pressure, tobacco, obesity, substance abuse, and cancer.
Ms. Bone assisted in initiating the Baltimore Schweitzer Fellows Program and served as its first director for 8 years. The Program provides volunteer service opportunities and support for health and human service graduate students from the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing; University of Maryland Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Social Work, Pharmacy and law, and Morgan State’s Public Health Program through volunteer work in community-based organizations.
Janice Bowie, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society and the Center for Health Disparities Solutions. She also co-directs the school's postdoctoral Kellogg Health Scholars Program - Community Track. Prior to joining SBS in 1998, she worked as a health education and later, as director of chronic disease control programs for the Virginia Department of Health. Her public health experience spans more than 25 years and most of her work has centered around community health. Her research portfolio includes minority and women's health, community-based participatory research, cancer control, and spirituality.
[back to top]Academic Resources
The Kellogg Health Scholars Program - Community Track 2 year post-doctoral program in community-based participatory research (CBPR) at Hopkins has a flexible structure allowing the program office to be responsive to different needs of scholars. The Bloomberg School of Public Health environment offers scholars the opportunity to design their fellowship according to personal interests and goals. Scholars are encouraged to establish networks in collaboration with faculty and community partners which include building and working with existing multi-disciplinary research teams. Faculty advisors/mentors and research opportunities and linkages can be made via the Hopkins Program Office. Scholars have access to courses, seminars and other educational opportunities throughout the university to gain knowledge and skills in community-based participatory research, including CBPR one day Nuts and Bolts Workshop, CBPR 3 credit course, and CBPR seminar series. These offerings are available to faculty, students, staff, and community persons.
Faculty advisor, selected by the scholars are available from 10 SPH academic departments (e.g. Biostatistics; Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology; Health, Behavior and Society; Health Policy and Management; International Health; Mental Health; and Populations and Family Health Sciences) and are engaged in collaborative research with other Hopkins divisions (e.g., medicine and nursing) and academic institutions as well as community agencies and institutions. There is also a consortium of over 30 faculty from across these departments committed to integrating community-based participatory research into the school and university. The program is part of an urban community yet with access to rural communities (within one hour from the School of Public Health campus.)
[back to top]Community Resources
The School of Public Health is linked with over 130 local community-based organizations and neighborhood projects with whom scholars can connect. Community-based public health partnership projects focus on such areas as: environmental health, urban health, adolescent health, maternal and child health, mental health and homelessness, and injury prevention. In addition, there are over 55 centers and institutes; each are linked with the community and provide opportunities for conducting community-based public health research (e.g., Autoimmune Disease Research Center, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Biostatistics, Center for a Livable Future, Center for Adolescent Health, Center for AIDS Research, Center for American Indian Health, Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Center for Communication Programs, Center for Excellence in Environmental Health Tracking, Center for Global Health, Center for Health and Human Rights, Center for Human Nutrition, Center for Immunization Research, Center for Injury Research and Policy, Center for Law and the Public's Health, Center for Occupational Safety and Health, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Center for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness, Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, Center on Aging and Health, Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities, Hopkins Population Center, Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Institute for International Programs, Institute for Vaccine Safety, International Collaborative Genetic Research Training Program, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Center for Mind-Body Research, Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness, Johns Hopkins Center in Urban Environmental Health, Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center, Johns Hopkins Northeast Regional Academic Environmental Public Health Center, Johns Hopkins University Center for Water and Health, Malaria Research Institute, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Mid-Atlantic Health Leadership Institute, Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center, Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, Primary Care Policy Center for Underserved Populations, Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute, Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Self-Help Through Intervention and Prevention (SHIP Studies - The Lighthouse),Urban Health Institute, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Women's and Children's Health Policy Center).
Scholars are also invited to participate in the Urban Health Institute. This Institute is a partnership activity of public health, medicine, and nursing with the Johns Hopkins University divisions and the East Baltimore community. It focuses on developing transformation strategies for improving the health of the East Baltimore population.
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