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

1. HBS faculty member, , PhD, served on the Committee on Scoping Existing Guidelines for Feeding Recommendations for Infants and Young Children Under Age 2. The Committee’s new report, , was released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
    
2. HBS professor, , PhD, delivered a special, virtual  on Community-Centered Public Health Research and Practice. Bowie was also selected as a 2020 inductee into the  project, which honors Black students, faculty, and staff for their exceptional contributions to the University.
    
3. Lauren Dayton, a fourth-year doctoral student in HBS, was named a 2020  by the Center for Health and Human Rights.
    
4. , ScD, HBS faculty member and director of the , collaborated with , MD, on a new , published in JAMA Pediatrics.
    
5. HBS faculty member, , MSW, was selected as the featured speaker for “.” The Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) event took place virtually on June 19, 2020 and drew over 400 participants.
    
6. HBS faculty member, , PhD, was awarded a Spring 2020 Small Grant from the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions for her “” faculty project. Jones was also named an  (UHI).
    
7. The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) selected multiple articles from HBS faculty members, , PhD, and , PhD, to feature in its “” resource, which spotlights work from IAPHS members that surrounds racism as a determinant of health.
    
8. HBS chair, , PhD, joined the  (RANI) Project, which works to reduce anemia rates amongst women in India, for a virtual webinar presentation at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
    
9. HBS faculty member, , PhD, received the  from the Gerontological Society of America, which acknowledges excellence in the mentorship of minority researchers in the discipline of aging.
    
10. HBS doctoral student, Daniel Zaltz, published two first-author papers related to healthy eating policies in child care in the U.S. Collaborating with his advisor, Sara Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, Zalz and his team explored impacts of participation in a federal nutrition assistance program in a study published in . In the second paper, published in , Zaltz and his team evaluated the impact of state-level eating policy on children’s diet quality in South Carolina child care centers.