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The Office of Public Health Practice and Training engages students in professional practice and establishes networking and training relationships with the local, state and federal public health practice communities. The Office strives to improve and advance the capabilities of the public health workforce and develop the skills of the next generation of public health professionals by providing training sessions, programs, internships and other activities that promote interaction between JHSPH and the practice community.

Practice News

The Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness offers over 50 free online training modules for Public Health Preparedness.

Reducing child poverty urged as health priority
Toronto Star, 06/20/08

Upcoming Events

Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) Communication Program Research Rounds

The BCHD holds a monthly lecture series called Research Rounds where researchers are invited to present their research results to Health Department programs and staff. The goals of the series are to increase academic-practice communication, to facilitate dissemination of research findings to the practice community, and to enable the Health Department to stay abreast of important public health findings and activities relevant to the health of Baltimore residents. The seminars occur every fourth Monday, from Noon to 1 p.m., at the Health Department in downtown Baltimore.

Hopkins faculty and students are encouraged to attend. These lectures provide a great opportunity to merge academia with public health practice.

07/27/09
Susan Sherman
Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

08/24/09
Shruti Mehta
Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Our People

Vincent DeMarco, JD, MA

Assistant Professor - Adjunct
President, Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative
Departmental Affiliation: Health, Behavior and Society

Over the past 20 years, I have worked to build powerful grassroots coalitions to move important public health polices, including, reducing gun violence and teen smoking, and expanding health care access. We have put together a process for doing so that has been used as a model in other states across the country. A key element of this process is making public health a top issue in elections.

My goal at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is to help train students on how to advance public health issues through the coalition building and voter education model we have used in Maryland. I am looking forward to learning from the students and faculty at the School about good ways to make this model even more effective and how to replicate it in other jurisdictions and on other issues.