Wednesday Seminars 2020-2021
12:15 - 1:20 p.m. – Paige Hall W2030 (unless otherwise indicated)
For more information, please contact Deenah Darom.
When available, the recording is uploaded within two business days.
We wish you a great summer and look forward to resuming our seminars September 2, 2020
2020 - Master's Essay Presentations Part I to IV
May 13 -- Master's Essay Presentations
Brittany Shapiro Dooley
Importance of Provider-Parent Communication to Address Vaccine Hesitancy
Bee Yakzan
Measuring Congruency of Actual and Perceived Sexual Health Communication Between American Indian Youth and Their Trusted Adults
Rebecca Skinner
Exploring Perceptions About the Grads2Careers Program in Baltimore: A Mixed Methods Evaluation
Danielle Gaskin
Reaching the 3-Month Mark: A Qualitative Investigation of the Breastfeeding Journeys of WIC Mothers
May 11 -- Master's Essay Presentations
Alexandria Mickler
Two-way misclassification of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in household surveys: Evidence from Tanzania
Anvita Bhardwaj
Prevalence of depression and key associated factors among female sex workers living with HIV in Durban, South Africa
Campbell Veasey
Asset Mapping in Systems Science: Avenues to Action in Community-Based Participatory Research across British Columbia
Sharon Hwang
Integrating a maternal and child health, nutrition and child nutrition intervention package within existing Bangladesh government first-level health facilities: a feasibility study
May 6 -- Master's Essay Presentations
Claire Silberg
Housing Instability and Violence Victimization Among Women Who Use Drugs (WWUD) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Meagan Williams
Measuring Post-Traumatic Stress After Childbirth: A Review and Critical Appraisal of Instruments
Alexis Campbell
Embedding Equity into Maryland’s Prenatal-to-Age Three (PN-3) System of Care
Arshdeep Kaur
Readiness for Intimate Partner Violence Response Among Supportive Housing Programs: A capacity Assessment in Maryland
Aditi Patrikar
Social and Behavior Change Communication Intervention on Family Planning Uptake: A Systematic Review
April 29 -- Master's Essay Presentations
Monica Dutta
A Quality Improvement-Based Approach to Increasing Recommended Developmental Screenings in Pediatric Primary Care Settings
Doopashika Welikala
Community Health Workers in Reducing Infant Mortality in South Asia A Systematic Literature Review
Breanna Watson
Improving Efficient Care for Children in Foster Care in the Hospital Setting: Learning from Inpatient Healthcare Providers
Michelle Martinez
Analyzing the global policy of Sustainable Development Goal #5: Missing the mark with gender equality and the way forward Kaylee Smith Do Men Have a Choice in Becoming Fathers? Exploring Men’s Reproductive Agency and Wantedness of Pregnancies: Determinants and Effects
Kaylee Smith
Do Men Have a Choice in Becoming Fathers? Exploring Men’s Reproductive Agency and Wantedness of Pregnancies: Determinants and Effects
2019 - 2020 PAST SEMINARS
April 22 -- Gates Institute Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
GATES INSTITUTE ANCHOR
Kellie Welborn, MAS, Senior Program Officer
THE CHALLENGE INITIATIVE – TCI
Maheen Malik, MD, Director Field Program
ADVANCE FAMILY PLANNING – AFP
Sam Mulyanga, MS, AFP/Kenya Director, Jhpiego
PERFORMANCE MONITORING FOR ACTION – PMA
Phil Anglewicz, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
Elizabeth Gummerson, PhD, MPA, Deputy Director, Technical Unit
ACCESS THE PDF VERSION (includes links)
April 15 -- Engaging Stakeholders in a State Title V Needs Assessment: Lessons from a Public Program-Academic Partnership
Donna Strobino, PhD’76, Professor, Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Pamela Donohue, ScD’02, MS, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Clinical Research, Division of Neonatology, School of Medicine
Carrie Wolfson, MPA, PhD Candidate, Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
April 8 -- Responding to Youth Needs Due to COVID-19: Perspectives from Three Hopkins Centers
JHU Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions
Megan Collins, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, JHSOM, Wilmer Eye Institute, Berman Institute
Sara Johnson, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, JHSOM, JHSPH, Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Beth Marshall, DrPH, MPH, Assistant Scientist, JHSPH, Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health
Katrina Brooks, MHS, Community Relations Director, JHSPH, Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Tamar Mendelson, PhD, Bloomberg Professor of American Health, Director for the CAH, JHSPH, Mental Health, Population, Family & Reproductive Health
Johns Hopkins Women, Infants and Children Program
Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, Associate Scientist, JHSPH, Population, Family & Reproductive Health
March 4 -- Maternal and Child Health in Islamic Countries
Saifuddin Ahmed, MBBS, PhD, Professor, Population, Family and Reproductive Health
February 26 -- Polio Eradication in Pakistan: Implementation Science Grand Rounds
Svea Closser, PhD Associate Professor, Department of International Health, JHSPH
February 12 -- Using mHealth and mixed methods to study substance use in daily life
Johannes Thrul, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, JHSPH
January 22 -- Access Denied: Unpacking Roe in the Fight to Achieve Reproductive Justice
Sequoia Ayala, JD, MA, Director of Policy and Advocacy Program, SisterLove
Joint Seminar: Office of Public Health Practice and Training, Population, Family and Reproductive Health, JHSPH Student Assembly, Public Health Students for Reproductive Justice
December 11 – What Happens When Pediatric Medical and Social Complexities Collide
Rebecca Seltzer, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
December 4 – A Little Money can Go a Long Way: Using Pilot Grants to Advance Community-Engaged Adolescent Health Research
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health (PFRH) | Co-sponsored with the Department of Mental Health
Beth Marshall, DrPH ’11, MPH ’03 Assistant Scientist, PFRH, Terrinieka Powell, PhD, MA, Associate Professor, PFRH, Rebkha Atnafou, MPH, Research Associate, PFRH
November 20 – Prevention as Treatment: Promoting Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Positive Relationships among Baltimore Youth Racing Interpersonal Trauma & Violence
Kamila Alexander, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Presented by the Departmental Student Assembly
November 13 – Breaking the Silence on Infertility: Challenges and Opportunities
PFRH Amazing Alumni Series
Marie Thoma, PhD'09, MHS'09, Assistant Professor Department of Family Science University of Maryland School of Public Health
November 6 – Bayesian Statistical Models of the Etiology of Disease: Recent Studies of Children’s Morbidity and Mortality
Scott L. Zeger, PhD, John C. Malone Professor of Biostatistics and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
October 30 – Quality of Abortion Reporting in the US and Pathways to Improvement
Laura Lindberg, PhD, MA, Principal Research Scientist, Guttmacher Institute
Dr. Lindberg's profile page.
October 16 – The Consequences of Undercounting Baltimore’s Children in the 2020 Census
Speaker: Mary Elizabeth Hughes, PhD, MA Associate Scientist
Co-Authors: Stuart Schrader, Mac McComas
Co-Sponsored by 21st Century Cities Initiative, JHU
October 9 – No Seminar
October 2 – PFRH Stories of the Faculty - Part II
Please join us as the faculty share their journey to Public Health
Philip Anglewicz, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
Stan Becker, PhD, Professor
Beth Fredrick, Senior Associate
Naraa Gombojav, MD, PhD, ScM, Assistant Scientist
Lori Heise, PhD, Professor
Charvonne Holliday, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
ME Hughes, PhD, MA, Associate Scientist
Li Liu, MB, PhD, MHS, Associate Professor
Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP, Professor, Chair of PFRH
Scott Radloff, PhD, Senior Scientist
September 25 – PFRH Stories of the Faculty - Part I
Please join us as our faculty share their journey to Public Health
Saifuddin Ahmed, MBBS, PhD, Professor
Robert Blum, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor
Michele Decker, ScD, MPH, Associate Professor
Alison Gemmill, PhD, MPH, MA, Assistant Professor
Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, Assistant Scientist
Heather Marlow, PhD, MPH, Assistant Scientist
Tamar Mendelson, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
Terri Powell, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
Sally Safi, PhD, MSPH, Assistant Scientist
Allison West, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor
Linnea Zimmerman, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
September 18 – Reducing Early Childhood Health Disparities Using Program Evaluation to Inform Systems Solutions
Meredith Matone, DrPH’15, MHS’10
Scientific Director
PolicyLab Research Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Assistant Professor Jul 2016-Present
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
September 11 – Orchids, Dandelions and Everything In Between: Child-Context Interactions and Implications for Children's Health and Development
Jill Rabinowitz, PhD, MS Assistant Scientist
Department of Mental Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Special Seminar | September 6 – Violence, Crime and Child Health: A Life-Course Approach
Dylan B. Jackson, PhD Assistant Professor
University of Texas at San Antonio
September 4 – The Emotional World of Infants and Young Children
Elizabeth Planalp, PhD Assistant Scientist
Waisman Center – University of Wisconsin