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www.jhsph.edu/urbanhealth Urban Health Institute PFRH Noon seminar September 10, 2014
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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 well-being, 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
• 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: community-
university 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
