News & Events
The Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center is pleased to announce the 2020 Pilot Grant Awardees:
Dr. Sachini Bandara, Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Pilot Grant Title: Community Reentry After Incarceration for Adults with Serious Mental Illness: Identifying Policy Opportunities
Dr. Karly Murphy, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Pilot Grant Title: Identification of Patient, Provider, and Health System Factors Associated with Gaps in Preventive and Chronic Disease Care Delivery for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Dr. Johannes Thrul, Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Pilot Grant Title: Developing and Pilot Testing a Remote Smoking Cessation Digital Therapeutic for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Advanced Methods for Mental Health Services Research Training Series now available!
"Using Marginal Structural Models in Mental Health Services Research" - Dr. Sachini Bandara
"An Introduction to Systems Science and Agent-Based Modeling" - Dr. Tak Igusa
"Using Mixed-Methods to Inform Causal Inference" - Dr. Beth McGinty
"The Use of Propensity Scores in Mental Health Services Research" - Dr. Liz Stuart
Recent News
- Dr. Gail Daumit, ALACRITY Center Director, presented at NAMI's Ask the Expert webinar "Achieving Ideal Heart Health in People with Mental Illness." View the webinar here.
- Dr. Gail Daumit presented "Achieving Cardiovascular Health Equity for Persons with Serious Mental Illness" at The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Jam Session
- Dr. Liz Stuart, ALACRITY Center Methods Core Co-Principal Investigator, presented "Mediation analysis to examine behavioral interventions" at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention.
- Dr. Liz Stuart was recently named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow.
- Dr. Liz Stuart was recently installed as a Bloomberg Professor of American Health.
- ALACRITY Center staff, Catherine Wren, was highlighted in Johns Hopkins Medicine's "Extraordinary People. Extraordinary Moments" discussing her COVID-19 research experience at Johns Hopkins' field-based research site. She was also featured in a recent Johns Hopkins Medicine Dome article, "COVID-19 Research Coordinator Finds Her Calling at Johns Hopkins."
- Dr. Beth McGinty, ALACRITY Center Associate Director, discussed her study on the effects of psychological distress during COVID-19 in a recent New York Times article.
- Dr. Gail Daumit presented a webinar "Achieving Healthy Weight for Mental Health Consumers" in collaboration with The Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network and The University of Washington.
- Dr. Gail Daumit discussed the IDEAL Trial in Cardiology Today.
- Dr. Kimberly Gudzune, ALACRITY Center Core Pilot Study Co-Principal Investigator, recently had an article "FaceTime with your doctor" published in the Washington Post addressing how COVID-19 is changing the delivery of health care.
- Dr. Kimberly Gudzune was recently quoted in a Scientific American article, "What if Doctors Stopped Prescribing Weight Loss?"
- Dr. Liz Stuart was named to a three year term on two standing National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine committees: The Committee on National Statistics and The Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.
- Dr. Gail Daumit and Dr. Beth McGinty recently presented a webinar for The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on “Caring for People with Mental Health and Substance use Disorders in Primary Care Settings.”
- ALACRITY Center faculty, Dr. Sachini Bandara, was appointed as Assistant Professor in The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Department of Mental Health. ALACRITY Center Seed Grant Recipient, Dr. Alene Kennedy-Hendricks, was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. ALACRITY Center trainee, Dr. Karly Murphy, is joining the General Internal Medicine faculty as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations to all!
Recent Publications
The Effects of the Maryland Medicaid Health Home Waiver on Emergency Department and Inpatient Utilization Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Effect of a Comprehensive Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Intervention in Persons with Serious Mental Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Integrating Mental Health and Addiction Treatment into General Medical Care: The Role of Policy
Psychological Distress and Loneliness Reported by US Adults in 2018 and April 2020
Serious Mental Illness in Primary Care: A National Physician Survey
Effects of Maryland's Affordable Care Act Medicaid Health Homes Waiver on Quality of Cardiovascular Care Among People With Serious Mental Illness
The Policy Ecology of Behavioral Health Homes: Case Study of Maryland's Medicaid Health Home Program
Association Between the Maryland Medicaid Behavioral Health Home Program and Cancer Screening in People with Serious Mental Illness
A Model for Advancing Scale-Up of Complex Interventions for Vulnerable Populations: the ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness
Behavioral Health Home Impact on Transitional Care and Readmissions among Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Kennedy‐Hendricks A, Bandara SN, Daumit GL, Busch AB, Stone EM, Stuart EA, Murphy KA, McGinty EE. Behavioral Health Home Impact on Transitional Care and Readmissions among Adults with Serious Mental Illness. Health Serv Res. 2020; 00: 1– 8. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13594
Upcoming Events
Research in Progress Meetings
January 13, 2021, 3-4pm
"Peer Support and Mobile Health Technology Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk in Young Adults with Serious Mental Illness: A Randomized Controlled Trial"
Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and Director of Research at New Hampshire Hospital
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Mental Health Seminars
February 24, 2021, 12:15pm-1:30pm
“Adapting Critical Time Intervention to Support Inpatient Medical Care Transitions”
Thomas Smith, MD, Chief Medical Officer, NYS Office of Mental Health
March 3, 2021, 12:15pm-1:30pm
Gail Daumit, MD, MHS Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
March 17, 2021, 12:15pm-1:30pm
“Behavioral health home impact on transitional care and readmissions among adults with serious mental illness”
Alene Kennedy-Hendricks, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Past Events
NAMI Ask the Expert
Achieving Ideal Heart Health in People with Mental Illness
Gail Daumit, MD, MHS, FACP
Thursday, December 10, 4-5:30pm EST
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Jam Session
Achieving Cardiovascular Health Equity for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Gail Daumit, MD, MHS, FACP
Wednesday, December 9, 3-4:30pm EST
NAMIWalks Maryland
May 30th, 2020 - ALACRITY Center faculty and staff virtually participated in NAMIWalks Maryland.
Stakeholder Advisory Board Meeting
May 21st, 2020 - ALACRITY Center Stakeholder Advisory Board Meeting held virtually
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Mental Health Seminars
“The epidemic of tobacco smoking in persons with serious mental illness: adverse effects and needed solutions”
Faith Dickerson, PhD Sheppard Pratt Health System
January 29th, 2020 12:15-1:30pm
624 N Broadway, Hampton House Lecture Hall (B14B)
“Tobacco Smoking Cessation Clinical Trials in Community Mental Health Settings”
Gail Daumit, MD, MHS Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
February 5th, 2020, 12:15-1:30pm
624 N Broadway, Hampton House Lecture Hall (B14B)
“Tobacco Smoking Cessation Treatment for Persons with Serious Mental Illness: Clinician Attitudes and National Treatment Data”
Elizabeth Stone, MSPH, Doctoral Student, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
February 12th, 2020, 12:15-1:30pm
624 N Broadway, Hampton House Lecture Hall (B14B)
Welch Center Clinical Research Grand Rounds
“Using Marginal Structural Models to Understand the Effects of Medicaid Health Homes”
Sachini Bandara, PhD
January 15th, 2020, 12:00pm-1:15pm
2024 E Monument St. Building Powe Room (1-500Q)
“Improving Cancer Screening and Preventive Services in Medicaid Health Homes”
Karly Murphy, MD, MSc, MHS
January 22nd, 2020, 12:00pm-1:15pm
2024 E Monument St. Building Powe Room (1-500Q)
ALACRITY Center Research Forum “Integration of Specialty Mental Health and General Medical Care for People with Serious Mental Illness”
November 22nd, 2019, 11:00am-12pm
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD, 21205
Room E9519
American Statistical Association Mental Health Statistics Section Webinar
November 20th, 2019 - Dr. Daniel Almirall presented webinar on "Some Frequently Asked Questions about the Design and Analysis of Sequential, Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials"
Facebook Live Lunch and Learn – Maryland Behavioral Peer Recovery Specialists
November 8th, 2019, 12:00-1:00pm
“The importance of physical health in recovery – advocating for your care”
Maryland Behavioral Health Peer Recovery Specialist Facebook page