Bloomberg School of Public Health
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624 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Director: Lee R. Bone
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Lee Bone, R.N., M.P.H. is the director of the training site at Johns Hopkins University. She is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Health Policy & Management. 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 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 smoking, obesity, substance abuse).
As part of her efforts, she works with a group of faculty members from Baltimore City high schools and Johns Hopkins University Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing as well as the Johns Hopkins Hospital to provide work experience opportunities as well as to mentor high school students in health careers. With the goal of linking the two distinctly separate sections of east and west Baltimore, Ms. Bone has been part of a group that initiated a Baltimore Schweitzer Fellows Program. The Program provides volunteer service opportunities and support for health and human service graduate students through volunteer work in community-based organizations.
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The Community Health Scholars post-doctoral research program 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. Seminars are offered by each department within the School of Public Health (e.g., Preventive Medicine Residency, Occupational Medicine Residency) as well as within the Schools of Medicine and Nursing. On the first Thursday of each month (First Thursday Series) faculty, students and the community are invited to participate in an interactive seminar series designed to enhance our understanding and skills in community-based participatory research.
Faculty advisors, selected by the scholars are available from 7 SPH academic departments (e.g., Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management, International Health, Mental Hygiene, and Immunology, and Population 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 50 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.)
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The School of Public Health is linked with over 40 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, health and homelessness, primary care delivery to underserved and vulnerablepopulations, and injury prevention. In addition, there are over 30 centers and institutes; each are linked with the community and provide opportunities for conducting community-based public health research (e.g., Bioethics Institute, Center for Adolescent Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Center for American Indian and Alaskan Native Health, Center for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Research, Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Center for Gun Policy and Research, Epidemiologic Center for Early Risk Behaviors, Center on the Demography of Aging, Health Services Research and Development Center, Human Nutrition, Immunization Research, Injury Research and Policy, Primary Care Policy Center for the Underserved, Refugee and Disaster Studies, Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute, Women's & Children's Health Policy Center).
Scholars are also invited to participate in the East Baltimore Urban Health Initiative. This Initiative, a new partnership activity which includes all the Johns Hopkins University divisions and the East Baltimore community, is developing transformation strategies for improving the health of the East Baltimore population.
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