A monthly series featuring ten awards and accomplishments across the Department of Health, Behavior & Society.
- On August 31, HBS officially welcomed 27 new master’s and doctoral students to this year’s Virtual Plus Campus for the first day of classes.
- Melissa Davey-Rothwell, PhD, and Amy Knowlton, ScD, collaborated to launch the HBS Café, a new, virtual weekly event series to foster informal opportunities for members of the HBS community to connect.
- HBS faculty members, Andrea Gielen, ScD, and Ju Park, PhD, were elected to the HBS Executive Committee. Each will serve a two-year term.
- HBS postdoctoral fellow, Rachel Bleiweiss-Sande, PhD, and faculty member, Sara Benjamin Neelon, PhD, received a Cross Border Collaboration Award from Fogarty International Center, through CFDR Global. They plan to evaluate the food environments in U.S.-Mexico border towns from a healthy eating and community food security perspective.
- The “Waking up to Climate Change: Cool Roofs, Sleep, and Health in Baltimore City” research project, which aims to evaluate cool roofs as a solution to minimize the urban heat island effect, received $1 million in SCIBAR funding. HBS faculty members, Sara Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, and Susan Sherman, PhD, are co-investigators on the project. Kirsten Koehler, PhD, and Adam Spira, PhD, are the primary investigators.
- HBS doctoral student, Naomi Greene, published a new, first-author paper titled “Examining Disparities in Excessive Alcohol Use Among Black and Hispanic Lesbian and Bisexual Women in the United States: An Intersectional Analysis” in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
- HBS doctoral student, Amelia Jamison, published a new, first-author article in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review titled “Not just conspiracy theories: vaccine opponents and proponents add to the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ on Twitter.”
- HBS doctoral student, Kristy Marynak, published a new report titled “Delay or Avoidance of Medical Care Because of COVID-19-Related Concerns – United States, June 2020” in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Marynak aided the CDC’s COVID-19 response in the Monitoring and Evaluation unit of the Community Intervention and Critical Population Task Force over the summer.
- HBS alum, Yonaira Rivera, PhD ’19, appeared on a new episode of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative's The American Health Podcast, to discuss her journey as co-founder of Puerto Rico Stands, an organization dedicated to fostering long-term community resiliency in Puerto Rico. Rivera and her co-founder, Hadi Esieley-Barrera, established the group in the aftermath of Hurricane María.
- Kristin Schneider, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in HBS, published a new, first-author paper titled “Conceptualizing overdose trauma: The relationships between experiencing and witnessing overdoses with PTSD symptoms among street-recruited female sex workers in Baltimore, Maryland” in the International Journal of Drug Policy.
