HBS Awards and Accomplishments: January 2021

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

1. HBS doctoral student, Lauren Dayton, HBS staff member, Grace Yi, and HBS faculty member, Carl Latkin, PhD, published a new article in Social Science & Medicine titled “Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A socio-ecological perspective.”
2. HBS faculty member, Michelle Kaufman, PhD published a new paper in JMIR Formative Research alongside HBS doctoral student, John Mark Wiginton, and CCP researcher, Albert Casella, titled “Mentoring Young African American Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex With Men on Sexual Health: Formative Research for an HIV Mobile Health Intervention for Mentors.”
3. HBS doctoral students, Carla Tilchin and Lauren Dayton, along with HBS faculty member, Carl Latkin, PhD, published a new paper titled “Socioeconomic Factors Associated With an Intention to Work While Sick from COVID-19” in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
4. HBS faculty members, Lauren Parker, PhD, and Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, contributed to a chapter to Ham’s Primary Care Geriatrics. Their passage centers around competency and humility in caring for older adults.
5. HBS doctoral student, Anushka Aqil, published two new papers. The first paper, “’I would really want to know that they had my back’: Transgender Women’s Perceptions of HIV Cure-Related Research in the United States,” was published in PLoS ONE. The second paper, “Theory-Informed Course Design: Applications of Bloom’s Taxonomy in Undergraduate Publish Health Couses” was published in Pedagogy in Health Promotion.
6. HBS faculty member, Lisa Cooper, MD, joined 60 Black members of the National Academy of Medicine as a signatory of a New York Times op-ed, encouraging Black Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
7. HBS faculty member, Michelle Kaufman, PhD published a new paper in Drug and Alcohol Dependence titled “’This show hits really close to home on so many levels’: An Analysis of Reddit comments about HBO’s Euphoria to understand viewers’ experiences of and reactions to substance use and mental illness.”
8. Lauren Parker, PhD, was recently funded a National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health 5-year K01 Career Development Award. Her K01 will examine the effects of adult day services on psychosocial and physiological measures of stress among African American dementia caregivers.
9. HBS faculty member, Susan Sherman, PhD, was installed as a new Bloomberg Professor of American Health at a schoolwide ceremony on February 2, 2021.
10. HBS doctoral student, Mudia Uzzi, received $10,000 in grant funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Policy Research Scholars Program. The proposal is part of the organizations’ COVID-19 and anti-racism pilot projects. The project is titled “Investigating the effects of racism, institutional distrust, and community collaboration on COVID-19-releated attitudes and prevention behaviors in Baltimore City.”