New Publication Launch, Center Director's Welcome
Welcome to the first edition of our news publication, Health Equity Happenings: Local + Global Action Updates! The Center for Health Equity team is eager to share helpful information about the challenges, progress, and lessons learned along our journey to address health equity for all.
This three-times-a-year publication signals a change in our approach to sharing perspectives from individuals influenced by health equity issues. To support this, we’ve recently;
Created a new Health Equity Voices Series to showcase diverse perspectives on health equity from all walks of life including public health researchers, health service providers, community leaders, patients and families, policymakers, and funders. This storytelling initiative aims to build understanding and empathy around the public health challenge of health inequity.
Launched a Health Equity Action Hub to house a growing collection of research updates, stories, and learning resources aimed at academic health professionals, health equity advocates, and broad community audiences.
OTHER CENTER NEWS
Our dedicated team of researchers, staff, and partners have also made significant progress in their research and advocacy work. During 2019 we:
Travelled to Uganda and Ghana to strengthen local global learning partnerships (read about about the Uganda trip and about the Ghana trip)
Sponsored four large-scale special events about eliminating racial disparities in maternal health, panels of experts sharing innovations in addressing food insecurity to promote health equity, lessons in local and global learning related to health equity, and confronting the 400 year legacy of slavery on health equity
Hosted six Health Equity Jam Sessions to share new ideas with colleagues and partners (read event roundups here)
Delivered eight human-centered design sessions to assist the American Heart Association to help patients who have had a stroke and have atrial fibrillation advocate for themselves in the health care system (read about the AHA sessions here).
Held four interactive sessions with our Community Advisory Board (visit the Community Corner) to guide engagement with communities
Initiated an External Advisory Board to guide Center priorities and expanded our networks
Read more about our recent milestone achievements on our Impact page
BIG PLANS FOR 2020 – CELEBRATING THE 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CENTER!
I’m also thrilled to announce exciting plans for the next 12 months. Heading into 2020, we’ll celebrate ten years since the inception of the Center for Health Equity. Working alongside our partners, we will host several activities throughout the year including special symposia and invited speakers and will co-sponsor the United States Conference on African Diaspora Health in June.
We also plan to:
Introduce new training direction with an online course entitled, Local and Global Best Practices in Health Equity Research Methods, at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and three new massive open online courses (MOOCs) with Coursera
Continue offering our monthly Jam sessions
Disseminate key lessons learned in the field of health equity research over the past decade and early results from our current research projects
Dr. Lisa Cooper, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
If you’d like to become involved with the Center’s work, or simply learn more about our unique approach to research, education and community engagement, please visit us online or get in touch here. Additionally, please stay tuned for details through our Twitter and Facebook pages. I’d be grateful if you’d encourage relevant colleagues to read the Health Equity Happenings publication and share this SignUp link: https://www.healthequityhub.com/form-signup-publications-options.
Warm regards,
Lisa
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, FACP
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
James F. Fries Professor of Medicine
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Bloomberg School of Public Health
