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 Explore the latest public health research and insights about health equity.

Daisy Zapata

Student Spotlight: Daisy Zapata

First-generation American Daisy Zapata originally planned to pursue  a career medicine. However, minoring in public health as an undergraduate led her to shift her focus to health inequities in Black and immigrant communities, and pursue her MSPH at the Bloomberg School. 

Health Equity
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
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Protecting Our Planet

For this month's reflection, HPM Chair Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD, talks about the importance of using policy to address climate change, especially given the number of health inequities that extreme weather conditions would continue to exacerbate.

Environment
Health Equity
Department of Health Policy and Management
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Expanding Methadone Access in Correctional Facilities

On March 28, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy hosted a forum about new rules and federal initiatives expanding methadone access for persons who are incarcerated—part of a sweeping effort to preventfentanyl- and other opioid-related overdose deaths, reduce recidivism and increase equity post-incarceration.

Drugs
Health Equity
Department of Health Policy and Management
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Faculty Profile: Kadija Ferryman

Department of Health Policy and Management assistant professor Kadija Ferryman, PhD, reflects on the journey that has led her to focusing on bioethics, health technologies and racial health inequities through research and education.

Health Equity
Technology and Innovation
Department of Health Policy and Management

Health Equity Faculty Experts

 Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of health equity? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Keshia Pollack Porter

Keshia Pollack Porter

Professor
Health Policy and Management

Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD ’06, MPH, uses research to advance policies that promote health equity, especially where people live, work, play, and travel.

Lisa Cooper

Lisa A. Cooper

Professor
Health, Behavior and Society

Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH '93, works to advance health equity with scholarship on racial disparities in patient-physician communication and community-informed interventions.

Tanjala Purnell

Tanjala S. Purnell

Associate Professor
Epidemiology

Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD '12, MPH, uses epidemiology and health services research to advance equity in transplantation and related conditions, including kidney diseases, hypertension, and diabetes.

Darrell Gaskin

Darrell J. Gaskin

Professor
Health Policy and Management

Darrell Gaskin, PhD '95, MS, is a health economist who advances community, neighborhood, and market-level policies and programs that reduce health disparities.

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