2022 Training and Education Update

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity (CHE) Training and Education Co aims to advance scientific knowledge, educate and train leaders, and partner with communities ​to raise public awareness of health inequities ​and promote sustainable changes in practice and policy.

Since its inception in 2010, the CHE Training and Education Core has provided individualized mentoring and didactic training in formal courses for over 200 individuals ranging from high school and undergraduate students to Master’s and pre-doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. Trainee accomplishments include: national awards, grants, and faculty positions​; health equity publications; leadership roles​; and high school and undergraduate students who matriculated into medical, nursing, public health or other graduate programs in science​. If you are interested in participating in any of our education and training programs, please send an email to healthequitytraining@jhmi.edu.

The CHE Training and Education Core offers several activities and opportunities for trainees, including opportunities to participate in research studies, work with faculty mentors, engage with the community and community partners, and complete coursework related to Health Equity research. In addition to courses available through the School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, trainees and the general public are able to take two free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), created by CHE.  These MOOCs have trained more than 7,000 learners around the world since 2020.

The Core also hosts monthly “Jam Sessions,” which provides a forum for faculty and trainees working on health equity research to discuss research-in-progress, new research ideas and proposals, responses to peer review, collaborations and funding, and career development – as well as to be inspired and energized by each other in an informal setting​. In 2022, CHE hosted 9 Jam Sessions, which ranged in topic from maternal health equity to isolation of elderly patients.

2022 Jam Sessions

In 2021, CHE received a grant from the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities to launch a new research program - the Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity (MACCHE) – and as part of that program, an Investigator Development Core pilot project program was established in 2022 to support innovative research related to cardiometabolic health equity. The program - consisting of Early-Stage Investigators - includes a built-in community network, faculty mentoring, and structured didactic training to support awardees. The inaugural cohort includes 7 scholars: Oludolapo Fakeye, PhD, MA; Xiaoyue (Sherry) Liu, PhD; Mika Matsuzaki, PhD, MPH, MS; Serena Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD; Allison Sylvetsky, PhD; Curtis Tilves, PhD, MS; and Maya Venkataramani, MD, MPH.

 
 

Thank you to everyone who makes the work of the CHE Training and Education Core possible. We are looking forward to all that we will accomplish in 2023!

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Lauren Rohrs