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Events
Advanced Methods for Mental Health Services Research Webinar Series
Topic: Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Trials
Speakers: Michael A. Rosenblum, PhD, MS, Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns ÎÚŃ»´«Ă˝ and Joshua Betz, MS, Associate Scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns ÎÚŃ»´«Ă˝
Date/Time: September 17th from 10:30am - 12:00pm
Michael Rosenblum, PhD, MS, is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns ÎÚŃ»´«Ă˝. Dr. Rosenblum develops innovative clinical trial designs and open-source software to efficiently learn which treatments work best for which populations. His research interests include adaptive clinical trial designs, robustness to model misspecification, causal inference, and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Josh Betz, MS, is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns ÎÚŃ»´«Ă˝. Mr. Betz brings rigorous and reproducible quantitative methods to complex data sources, allowing researchers to address research challenges in public health. His interests include applied statistics and consulting, reproducible research, statistical software and computing, clinical trials, statistical practice and the philosophy of science, best practices in quantitative research, and statistical education and literacy in the health sciences.
Recent News
Congratulations to the IMPACT study team for their recent publication, '' in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry!
NEW! Advanced Methods Training Videos
Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating Mental Health Policy
Presenter: Nicholas J. Seewald, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Past Events
NAMIWalks
June 1, 2024 from 8-11AM at Hunt Valley Towne Center
ALACRITY Center team members participated in NAMI Maryland's annual NAMIWalks event to promote mental health awareness
ALACRITY Center Research-in-Progress Meeting
- April 2025 – Dr. Catherine K. Ettman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health presented, “Telehealth, Assets, and Access to Mental Health Care."
- February 2025 – Dr. Esti Iturralde, our Implementation Research Institute Fellow and a clinical psychologist and research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research presented, “Personalized Diabetes Prevention Care for Younger Adults with Serious Mental Illness.” in conjunction with the Department of Mental Health Seminar Series
- January 2025 – Ms. Victoria Green, PhD student in the Johns Hopkins Department of Mental Health and ALACRITY Center Trainee presented, “Examining the Impact of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness in Maryland: Preliminary Findings” based on her thesis work including with Dr. Gennusa, mentored by Dr. Bandara, in conjunction with the Department of Mental Health Seminar Series
- December 2024 – Dr. Jiani Yu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College presented, “Medicare Telehealth Delivery during the Public Health Emergency and Beyond.”
- November 2024 – Dr. Kiara Alvarez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, at the Johns ÎÚŃ»´«Ă˝ presented, “Systems-level suicide prevention in pediatric settings: Leveraging the roles of caregivers and community health workers.”
Invited Talks
- January 2025 - Dr. Elizabeth Stuart presented, "Integrating Data for Causal Inference" at the Weill Cornell Department of Population Health Sciences Grand Rounds.
- December 2024 - Dr. Christina Yuan presented, "Bringing Interpreters into the Care Team: Identifying Team-based Implementation Strategies to Optimize the Role of language Access Services in Child Mental Health Settings" at the Johns Hopkins Business of Health Initiative Work-In-Progress Seminar
- October 2024 - Dr. Sachini Bandara presented, "Measuring the Implementation of Behavioral Health Policies" for the Stanford University Center for Dissemination and Implementation.
- October 2024 - Dr. Elizabeth Stuart presented, "Integrating Data for Causal Inference" at the Brown University Department of Biostatistics 30th Anniversary Symposium.
- October 2024 - Dr. Gail Daumit presented, "Reaching Improved Cardiovascular Health for Persons with Serious Mental Illness" at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Weekly Seminar Series.
- August 2024 - Ms. Alison Terry presented, "Reaching Improved Cardiovascular Health ​for Persons with Serious Mental Illness" for the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Residency Program.
- July 2024 - Ms. Stacy Goldsholl presented, "Tobacco Smoking Cessation ​in Field-Based Mental Health Services" at the Johns Hopkins Community Psychiatry Program Resident Seminar Series (and planned March, 2025).
Johns Hopkins Welch Center Grand Rounds
On April 23rd, Dr. Joseph Gennusa presented, Recruitment, Retention, Challenges and Successes from Trials for People with Serious Mental Illness
On April 30th, Ms. Stacy Goldsholl presented, From Clinical Trial to Community Implementation: Adapting a Weight Management Program for People Living with Serious Mental Illness
Conferences
- March 2025 - Dr. Michael Rosenblum and Mr. Joshua Betz led a half-day course, “Improving Precision and Power in Randomized Trials by Leveraging Baseline Variables” at the International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Spring Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
- January 2025 - Dr. Beth McGinty presented, "Embedding Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Policy Evaluation" at the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics in San Diego, California.
- December 2024 - Dr. Beth McGinty presented, "Systems Matter: Why Systems Thinking is Essential for Bridging the Mental Health Implementation Research Gap" at the International Alliance of Mental Health Research Funders (IAMHRF) Winter Forum.
- October 2024 - Dr. Michael Rosenblum presented, "Improving Precision in Estimating Marginal Treatment Effects in Randomized Trials" at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) Trial Innovation Center DIDACT Symposium.
- October 2024 - Dr. Gail Daumit presented, "Lifestyle Behavior Changes to Improve Physical and Mental Health of People Living with Serious Mental Illness" at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Fall Conference.