HBS Awards and Accomplishments: February 2021

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HBS Awards and Accomplishments

A monthly series featuring ten awards and accomplishments across the Department of Health, Behavior & Society.

  1. 11 HBS faculty members received AY 2021-2021 Excellence in Teaching Awards in recognition of their outstanding instruction during their Term 2 courses.
  1. HBS faculty members, Janice Bowie, PhD, and Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, published a new paper titled “Church Attendance and Mobility Limitation Among Black and White Men With Prostate Cancer” in the American Journal of Men’s Health.
  2. HBS faculty member, Carl Latkin, PhD, published a new paper titled “Mask usage, social distancing, racial, and gender correlates of COVID-19 vaccine intentions among adults in the US.” HBS doctoral student, Lauren Dayton, and HBS staff member, Grace Yi, contributed to the article, featured in PloS One.
  3. HBS faculty members, Danetta Sloan, PhD, and Amy Knowlton, ScD, published a new article titled “A mixed-methods exploration of faith, spirituality, and health program interest among older African Americans with HIV” in Quality of Life Research.
  4. HBS faculty member, Sara Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, published a new paper assessing links between governors’ party affiliation and rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.
  5. HBS faculty member, Lisa Cooper, MD, contributed to a new Insights Report published in NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery titled “Health Inequity and Racism Affects Patients and Health Care Workers Alike.”
  6. HBS faculty member, Vanya Jones, PhD, published a paper in the Journal of Community Psychology titled “Factors associated with successful mentor matching in an intervention study of youth violence.”
  7. HBS faculty member, Michelle Kaufman, PhD, and her team at JHSPH received $150,000 in grant funding to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth mentoring.
  8. Catherine Tomko, PhD, passed her final oral exams.
  9. HBS faculty member, Cui Yang, PhD, published a new study in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, which revealed limited awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis among patients at public STI clinics in Baltimore.