HBS Awards and Accomplishments: December 2020
A monthly series featuring ten awards and accomplishments across the Department of Health, Behavior & Society.
1. Ten HBS faculty members received for their Term 1 courses.
- , DrPH
- , PhD
- , PhD
- , PhD
- , PhD
- , PhD
- , PhD
- , PhD
- , PhD
- , EdD
2. Three HBS faculty members received for their Summer and Summer Institute courses.
- , ScD
- , PhD
- , PhD
3. , PhD, won a supplement to his K01 award with the National Institute of Mental Health. His project, in collaboration with the Emory University School of Public Health’s American Men’s Internet Survey, will address preferences for injectable PrEP among men who have sex with men in the U.S.
4. HBS doctoral student, , published a in METHODS titled “Use of a Qualitative Story Deck to Create Scenarios and Uncover Factors Associated with African American Participation in Genomics Research.”
5. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation appointed HBS faculty member, , PhD, as the new of the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program.
6. , PhD, passed her final oral exams on December 16, 2020.
7. HBS faculty member, , PhD, and doctoral student, , published a in JMIR Formative Research 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.”
8. HBS faculty members, , MS; , PhD; Steven Ragsdale, MSL; and , MD, published a in the Annual Review of Public Health titled “Enhancing Community Engagement by Schools and Programs of Public Health in the United States.”
9. HBS doctoral student, , received a Minority Scholarship from the to participate in a workshop on structural equation modeling.
10. HBS faculty member , PhD, received the 2020 Dean’s Award for Distinction in Faculty Mentoring. The award acknowledges faculty who “have demonstrated a sustained commitment to excellence in fostering the scientific, academic, and/or career development success of fellow faculty members at the Johns ѻý."