TRUST Acknowledgements | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Citation

Tackling Rumors and Understanding and Strengthening Trust (TRUST) in Public Health. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Updated July 11, 2024. https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/trust

Project team

An extensive team from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security collected, prepared, contributed to and/or authored the content of this website.

Project lead: Tara Kirk Sell, PhD, MA, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health, and Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Christina Potter, MSPH, Senior Analyst, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Research Associate, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health
Aishwarya Nagar, MPH, Senior Analyst, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Research Associate, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health
Vanessa Grégoire, MSc, Analyst, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Research Associate, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health
Annie Sundelson, MSc, PhD student, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS, DrPH student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health Security Track
Amelia M. Jamison, PhD student, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Alyson Browett, MPH, Senior Editor, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Julia Cizek, Designer and Web Administrator, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Hannah Feeney, Senior Program Coordinator, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Alex Zhu, MSPH, Analyst, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Research Associate, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health
Emily O’Donnell-Pazderka, MA, MPH student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Erin Fink, MS, Analyst, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Noelle Huhn, MSPH, Analyst, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Research Associate, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health
Johnross Ford, MS, MHS, Research Program Assistant II (Ad hoc), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Sarah-Louise Pasquino, MSPH student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ruth Grace Wong, MPH student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Courtney de Balmann, MPH student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Working group

The project team would like to thank all working group members who contributed to this project. The working group provided advice and front-line public health operations perspectives, gave feedback on processes and outcomes, and grew a community of practice with state and local health officials who are working to increase trust in public health preparedness and response and respond to misinformation and disinformation.

Adam Abadir, Deputy Director of State Affairs, City of Baltimore, MD
Anne Zink, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the State of Alaska
Esmeralda Guajardo, MAHS, Health Administrator, Cameron County Public Health, TX
Gib Morrow, MD, Health Officer, Kitsap Public Health District, WA
Hilary Karasz, PhD, Deputy Communications Director, Public Health – Seattle & King County, and Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health
Jessica Caum, MPH, Program Manager, Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness Program, City of Philadelphia – Department of Public Health, PA
Kimberly Henderson, PhD, Deputy Chief of Staff, Harris County Public Health, TX, and former Director of the Office of Communications and Community Relations, District of Columbia Department of Health
Martha Whyte, MD, Regional Administrator and Regional Medical Director, Louisiana Office of Public Health
Nick Lawyer, PA-C, Clark Fork Valley Hospital, Former Sanders County Public Health Officer, Sanders County, MT
Rachel Rubin, MD, Senior Medical Officer, Cook County Department of Health, IL
Wilma J. Wooten, MD, MPH, Public Health Officer, Public Health Services, County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, CA

Key informants

We would like to sincerely thank all practitioners and participants who contributed their perspectives and insights to this project’s research activities. The findings draw on the experiences of 100 key informants from 38 interviews and 8 focus groups, representing more than 20 US states and territories and many transdisciplinary fields. Our project team is tremendously grateful for your valuable contribution.

Funders

This project was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents, including references to non-US government sites on the Internet, are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor constitute or imply endorsement by, CDC/HHS or the US government.