Department of Health, Behavior and Society
HBS Awards and Accomplishments: January 2021
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A monthly series featuring ten awards and accomplishments across the Department of Health, Behavior & Society.
- HBS doctoral student, , HBS staff member, Grace Yi, and HBS faculty member, , PhD, published a in Social Science & Medicine titled “Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A socio-ecological perspective.”
- HBS faculty member, , PhD published a in JMIR Formative Research alongside HBS doctoral student, , and CCP researcher, Albert Casella, 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.”
- HBS doctoral students, and , along with HBS faculty member, , PhD, published a titled “Socioeconomic Factors Associated With an Intention to Work While Sick from COVID-19” in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
- HBS faculty members, , PhD, and , PhD, contributed to a chapter to . Their passage centers around competency and humility in caring for older adults.
- HBS doctoral student, , published two new papers. The , “’I would really want to know that they had my back’: Transgender Women’s Perceptions of HIV Cure-Related Research in the United States,” was published in PLoS ONE. The , “Theory-Informed Course Design: Applications of Bloom’s Taxonomy in Undergraduate Publish Health Couses” was published in Pedagogy in Health Promotion.
- HBS faculty member, , MD, joined 60 Black members of the National Academy of Medicine as a signatory of a New York Times , encouraging Black Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
- HBS faculty member, , PhD published a in Drug and Alcohol Dependence titled “’This show hits really close to home on so many levels’: An Analysis of Reddit comments about HBO’s Euphoria to understand viewers’ experiences of and reactions to substance use and mental illness.”
- , PhD, was recently funded a National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health 5-year K01 Career Development Award. Her K01 will examine the effects of adult day services on psychosocial and physiological measures of stress among African American dementia caregivers.
- HBS faculty member, , PhD, was installed as a new at a schoolwide ceremony on February 2, 2021.
- HBS doctoral student, , received $10,000 in grant funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Policy Research Scholars Program. The proposal is part of the organizations’ COVID-19 and anti-racism pilot projects. The project is titled “Investigating the effects of racism, institutional distrust, and community collaboration on COVID-19-releated attitudes and prevention behaviors in Baltimore City.”