Events

Required Reading

• Werner RM, Konetzka RT. Reimagining Financing and Payment of Long-Term Care. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2022 Feb;23(2):220-224. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.11.030. Epub2021 Dec 20. PMID: 34942158; PMCID: PMC8695540.

Additional Session-Specific Readings (Optional)

• Fabius CD, Okoye SM, Wu MMJ, Jopson AD, Chyr LC, Burgdorf JG, Ballreich J, Scerpella D, Wolff JL. The Role of Place in Person- and Family-Oriented Long-Term Services and Supports. Milbank Q. 2023;101(4):0728.  
• Van Houtven CH, McGarry BE, Jutkowitz E, Grabowski DC. Association of Medicaid Expansion Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act With Use of Long-term Care. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Oct 1;3(10):e2018728. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18728. PMID: 33001201; PMCID: PMC7530637.

Required Reading

• Freedman, V. A., Agree, E. M., Seltzer, J. A., Birditt, K. S., Fingerman, K. L., Friedman, E. M., ... & Zarit, S. H. (2024). The changing demography of late-life family caregiving: A research agenda to understand future care networks for an aging US Population. The Gerontologist, 64(2), gnad036.

Additional Session-Specific Readings (Optional)

• Schulz R, Czaja SJ. Family Caregiving: A Vision for the Future. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2018 Mar;26(3):358-363. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2017.06.023. Epub 2017 Jul 4. PMID: 28774786.
• Wolff JL, Spillman BC, Freedman VA, Kasper JD. A National Profile of Family and Unpaid Caregivers Who Assist Older Adults With Health Care Activities. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Mar;176(3):372-9. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7664. PMID: 26882031; PMCID: PMC4802361.

Required Reading

• Tyler DA, Feng Z, Grabowski DC, Bercaw L, Segelman M, Khatutsky G, Wang J, Gasdaska A, Ingber MJ. CMS Initiative to Reduce Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Long-Stay Nursing Facility Residents: Lessons Learned. Milbank Q. 2022 Dec;100(4):1243-1278. doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12594. Epub 2022 Dec 27. PMID: 36573335; PMCID: PMC9836234.

Additional Session-Specific Readings (Optional)

• Wolff, J.L., Drabo, E.F., Van Houtven, C.H., 2019. Beyond Parental Leave: Paid Family Leave for an Aging America. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 67, 1322–1324.. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15873
• Miller K.E.M., Stearns S.C., Van Houtven C.H., Gilleski D., Homes G.M., Kent, E.E. The Landscape of State Policies Supporting Family Caregivers as Aligned With the National Academy of Medicine Recommendations. Milbank Q. May 17, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12567

Required Reading

• Sterling MR, Grabowski DC, Shen MJ. Obtaining and Paying for Home Care-Navigating Patients Through the Complex Terrain of Home Care in the US. JAMA Intern Med. 2023 Aug 1;183(8):755-756. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2072. PMID: 37273215; PMCID: PMC11112548.

Additional Session-Specific Readings (Optional)

• Thomas KS, Silver B, Gozalo PL, Dosa D, Grabowski DC, Makineni R, Mor V. Constructing a Measure of Private-pay Nursing Home Days. Med Care. 2018 May;56(5):e26-e31. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000749. PMID: 28590958; PMCID: PMC5718979.
• Chen LM, Norton EC, Langa KM, Le S, Epstein AM. Geographic variation in out-of-pocket expenditures of elderly Medicare beneficiaries. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2014 Jun;62(6):1097-104. doi: 10.1111/jgs.12834. Epub 2014 May 22. PMID: 24852182.

AI and Healthcare Seminar Series | Hopkins Business of Health Initiative

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the delivery of health care. This workgroup serves to elucidate patient and physician attitudes towards AI using multimodal approaches like focus groups and observation of physician patient interactions to develop stochastic decision and game-theoretic models and observe physician-patient interactions. The objective of the workgroup is to understand factors involved in the adoption of AI in order to deploy AI effectively.

• Website: https://hbhi.jhu.edu/working-groups/workgroup-ai-and-healthcare
• When: 2^nd Friday of every Month, 12:00PM – 1:00PM
• Contact: Tinglong Dai at dai@jhu.edu, Risa Wolf at RWolf@jhu.edu

Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research (CHSOR) Seminar Series

CHSOR conducts multidisciplinary research on policies and practices, with a special focus on their impact on quality of care and patient-centered outcomes. Effort is devoted to using evidence to accomplish positive changes, with priority given to research on Federal and state policy issues and to vulnerable populations.

• Website: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-health-services-outcomes-research
• Time: Weekly on Tuesdays, 12:00PM – 1:00PM (Hybrid format)
• Contact: Mary Keyes at mbrecke1@jhmi.edu

Center on Aging and Health (COAH) Scientific Seminar Series

Research at COAH covers the full spectrum of aging research, from the biology of aging to health policy, facilitating the translation of research discoveries into applications that will directly improve the health of older adults. COAH provides key infrastructure that supports clinical- and population-based research and education, with expertise in research with older adults.

• Website: https://coah.jhu.edu/events/
• When: 1st Monday of the month during the academic year, 3:30PM – 5:00PM
• Contact: Monique L. Lee at mlee10@jhmi.edu

Clinical, Social, and Scientific Foundations of Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds

The Clinical, Social, and Scientific Foundations of Geriatric Medicine is a weekly conferencefeaturing a variety of colleagues with research and/or clinical interests related to Geriatric Medicine and aging.  Topics and presenters change weekly. The conference is held in person in the Grossi Auditorium in the Asthma & Allergy Building at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus. Attendees may also join by zoom. Contact Teresa King to subscribe to the list to receive updates.

• When: Every Thursday 4:00PM – 5:00PM
• Contact: Teresa King tsponau2@jhmi.edu

Collaborative on Caregiving Science Across the Lifecourse (CSAL) Seminar Series | Center for Equity in Aging

In partnership with the Family Caregiving Collaborative at the University of Utah, our goal of CSAL is to foster high quality and innovative research on caregiving across the lifecourse by promoting new research partnerships and helping to train the next generation of caregiving researchers. Our current main activities are monthly speaker series with leading scholars in caregiving science. Faculty and pre and post-doctoral who are interested in caregiving science are welcome to participate. 

• Website: https://nursing.utah.edu/research/groups-projects/family-caregiving-initiative/events
• When: Once a month on Wednesdays, 12:00PM – 1:00PM
• Join: https://utah.zoom.us/j/89735725901 | Meeting ID: 897 3572 5901 | Passcode: 54321
• Contact: agingcenter@jh.edu

Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease & Services (HEADS) Center Seminars

The HEADS Center nurtures and supports population-based research that identifies, quantifies, and addresses economic and care systems challenges posed by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). The seminars cover a variety of topics and research areas related to improving the care and lives of those affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

• Website: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/hopkins-economics-of-alzheimers-disease-and-services-center
• When: Monthly during the academic year on Wednesdays, 12:00PM – 1:00PM
• Contact: headscenter@jhu.edu
• Subscribe to newsletter: https://jhu.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=3600911f0c7605f6297ae1412&id=b0d8e28161

Work-in-Progress Seminar Series | Hopkins Business of Health Initiative

HBHI Work-in-Progress (WIP) is a forum for supporting early-stage research on HBHI topics as a Hopkins community of scholars from multiple disciplines across Carey, Bloomberg, Medicine, Nursing, Krieger, and Engineering. We encourage you to attend the WIP series regularly to support emerging scholarships and to learn about the exciting business of health research occurring across campus.

• Website: https://hbhi.jhu.edu/working-groups/work-in-progress
• When: 1^st Friday of the month, 12:00PM – 1:00PM ET (Zoom)
• Contact: Michael Darden at mdarden4@jhu.edu, hbhi_info@jhu.edu

Works in Progress Seminar Series | Center for Transformative Geriatric Research with Roger & Flo Lipitz Center to Advance Policy in Aging and Disability

This works in progress seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research in the School of Medicine and The Roger and Flo Lipitz Center to Advance Policy on Aging & Disability. It is a collaborative environment for faculty, fellows and students to get feedback on their work at any stage from concept to submission.

• When: Ten Fridays throughout the academic year, 12:00PM – 1:00PM (Zoom)
• Contact: Angel Williams at awill273@jhmi.edu

Analytic Working Group

The Analytic Workgroup convenes data analysts, programmers, and postdoctoral fellows to collaboratively address methodological and technical challenges encountered in research. The goals of the meetings are to troubleshoot programming issues, refine empirical strategies, and share solutions related to data processing, statistical modeling, and reproducible research practices. The group fosters skill development and cross-project learning across ongoing studies and facilitates structured code reviews to enhance reproducibility and transparency.

• When: 2^nd and 4^th Wednesday of each month, 11:00AM
• Contact: Katherine Miller kmill177@jh.edu

Biostatistics and Aging Research Collaborative (BARC)

The Center on Aging and Health provides cutting-edge statistical and research design expertise in collaboration with other investigators in aging research. The BARC working group has been established as a forum for discussing ongoing research projects on aging and seeking feedback on research methodology, including study design, implementation, data analysis, and reporting. Each session will be led by a person or team who will present a research-in-progress project of their choice, with a focus on novel or non-standard applications.

• Website: https://coah.jhu.edu/research-working-groups/
• Time: Monthly  
• Contact: Qian-Li Xue at qxue1@jhu.edu 

De-implementation of Inappropriate Care in Older Adults Working Group

This is a twice monthly working group across Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing with a focus on de-implementing unnecessary or inappropriate care in older adults. The goal of the group is to build collaboration in grants, papers, learn across different decisional contexts (i.e. deprescribing, reducing aggressive care at end of life).

• When: Every 2 months, the first Friday of the month 11:00AM
• Contact: nancyschoenborn@jhmi.edu

Family and Social Resources Workgroup

Sponsored by Center on Aging and Health (COAH), this group comprises an inter-disciplinary group of researchers investigating social determinants of health, including family, social, socioeconomic and caregiving resources. We seek to better understand and strengthen resources of older adults to prevent and manage aging-related conditions and to promote healthy aging. Meetings provide timely feedback related to conceptualization of research questions, study design, psychometric measurement, study implementation, data analyses and interpretation of results. Meetings also support collaborative projects.

• Website: https://coah.jhu.edu/research-working-groups/
• When: 4^th Tuesday of each month, 8:30AM – 9:30AM
• Contact: Martha Abshire Saylor at mabshir1@jhu.edu, Catherine Clair at cclair1@jhu.edu

Intervention Working Group (Center for Equity in Aging)

During monthly intervention working group sessions, a convener presents key issues related to their own intervention development and receives feedback from the group. Issues such as ways to effectively partner with community groups, novel study designs, and ways of developing intervention protocols are examples of topics that have been covered. Faculty and pre and post-doctoral and from other institutions are welcome to participate. Led by Quincy Samus and Kelly Gleason.

• When: 2^nd Thursday of the Month, 12:00PM – 1:00PM
• Contact: agingcenter@jhu.edu

Medicaid LTSS Lab

The Medicaid LTSS lab is for predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty conducting research using Medicaid TAF (T-MSIS Analytic Files) to study questions around aging, long term care, and home and community-based services. The goals of this group are to: 1) Review any research/programming challenges and troubleshoot as a group, 2) Share findings about data quality and 3) To foster collegiality and collaboration on current/future Medicaid research.

• When: Bi-weekly on Thursdays, 11:00AM
• Contact: Karen Shen kshen10@jhu.edu,  Katherine Miller kmill177@jh.edu

Medicare Claims and EHR Analyses

Linking administrative claims data with epidemiological studies of aging and clinical trials allows researchers to address research questions on healthcare utilization in innovative ways The Medicare Claims and EHR Analyses working group, sponsored by COAH, is very active with members from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health at Johns Hopkins as well as collaborators from other institutions. Currently researchers working on Medicare datasets linked to the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) project.

• Website: https://coah.jhu.edu/research-working-groups/
• When: 4^th Wednesday of each month, 3:00PM – 4:00PM EST (Hybrid)
• Contact: Marcela Blinka at mblinka1@jhu.edu

NHATS/NSOC Datasets Work Accountability Group 

This Work Accountability Group sponsored by the Center for Equity in Aging is for predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty conducting research using the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and/or the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC). The goals of this group are to: 1) Set aside dedicated time weekly to work on individual research/analyses, 2) review any research/coding challenges and troubleshoot as a group, and 3) To foster collegiality and collaboration on current/future NHATS/NSOC research.

• When: Meeting time TBD, please contact for more information
• Contact: Yiqing Qian at yqian37@jhu.edu

Palliative Care Initiative

Sponsored by the Center for Equity in Aging, The Palliative Care Working Group is a space for Doctoral Students and Faculty to nurture academic partnerships, develop creative solutions to research challenges, and collaboratively contribute to the science of palliative care through publications and professional events. Led by Rebecca Wright and Binu Koirala.

• When: 1^st Monday of the Month, 12:00PM – 1:00PM
• Contact: agingcenter@jh.edu

Social Connection Working Group

The Social Connections Working Group is a collaborative forum for researchers focused on social isolation, loneliness, and social connection. The group provides a casual, collegial space to share ongoing projects and new ideas, troubleshoot challenges, exchange feedback, build camaraderie and discuss potential collaborative projects. Members stay abreast of one another’s work as well as emerging, controversial, or high-impact topics shaping the field of social connection research.

• When: 3^rd Tuesday of each month, 9:00AM
• Hybrid: Zoom + COAH conference room
• Contact: Monique Lee mlee10@jhmi.edu, Mfon Umoh mumoh@jhmi.edu

Truveta user Community | Hopkins Business of Health Initiative

The proliferation of data platforms standardizing Electronic Health Record (EHR) data across health systems presents a major opportunity for exploring new innovative research ideas that could not previously be addressed. One such platform, Truveta, a national EHR data resource, has been selected as a key tool for advancing these efforts. The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative has established the Truveta User Community (HBHI-Truveta). This workgroup is dedicated to fostering a collaborative user community that leverages Truveta’s platform to drive cutting-edge research in health and healthcare.

• Website: https://hbhi.jhu.edu/working-groups/truveta
• When: 2^nd Wednesday of each month, 2:00PM
• Contact: hbhi_info@jhu.edu