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. Karly Murphy’s abstract “Outcomes after COVID-19 diagnosis for people with versus without serious mental illness” was accepted to the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting and she is a finalist for the Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Scientific Presentation Award.
- ALACRITY Center Trainee Dr. Liz Vrany is now officially a licensed clinical psychologist!
- Dr. Gail Daumit, ALACRITY Center Director, presented at NAMI's Ask the Expert webinar: "Vaccine Science: A History of Distrust and Discrimination for People with Mental Illness" in January. View the webinar here.
- Dr. Tak Igusa presented "Systems Science for implementation interventions: An application to tobacco smoking cessation for persons with serious mental illness" at Academy Health's Science of Dissemination & Implementation Conference in December.
- Dr. Murphy was awarded the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award in October 2020. She will be studying if negative attitudes are embedded in the medical record for persons with serious mental illness and if these influence quality of primary care delivery. Drs. Gail Daumit and Mary Catherine Beach are her mentors.
- Dr. Daumit received The Wulfson Memorial Lecture Award for outstanding efforts to decrease premature mortality and improve the overall health of people with serious mental illness from Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry
- Dr. Kimberly Gudzune shared her interactive poster at Academy Health's Science of Dissemination & Implementation Conference in December. She discussed ALACRITY Center's pilot study of the adapted Achieving Healthy Lifestyles in Psychiatric Rehabilitation (ACHIEVE) behavioral weight loss intervention
- Dr. Beth McGinty, ALACRITY Center Associate Director, is joining the Core Faculty of the Implementation Research Institute
- Dr. Murphy was awarded the first-place prize in the 2020 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology Trainee of the Year competition for her article “Association of Socioeconomic Status and Comorbidities with Racial Disparities during Kidney Transplant Evaluation.”
- Dr. Daumit presented at NAMI's Ask the Expert webinar "Achieving Ideal Heart Health in People with Mental Illness." View the webinar here.
- Dr. Daumit presented "Achieving Cardiovascular Health Equity for Persons with Serious Mental Illness" at The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Jam Session
- Dr. Elizabeth 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. Stuart was recently named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow
- Dr. Stuart was recently installed as a Bloomberg Professor of American Health
- Dr. Stuart received the 2020 Society for Epidemiology Marshall Joffe Methods Award
- 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. McGinty discussed her study on the effects of psychological distress during COVID-19 in a recent New York Times article.
- Dr. 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. Daumit discussed the IDEAL Trial in Cardiology Today.
- Dr. 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. Gudzune was recently quoted in a Scientific American article, "What if Doctors Stopped Prescribing Weight Loss?"
- Dr. 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.
- Drs. Daumit and 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.”
- Dr. Gerald Jerome, ALACRITY Center Co-Principal Investigator, was promoted to Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Towson University in August 2020
- 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 2019 Pilot Grant Recipient, Dr. Alene Kennedy-Hendricks, was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Murphy is joining the General Internal Medicine faculty as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations to all!
Recent Publications
Adapting the Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) implementation strategy to increase delivery of evidence-based cardiovascular risk factor care in community mental health organizations: Protocol for a pilot study
Cancer Screening Among Adults With and Without Serious Mental Illness: A Mixed Methods Study
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
July 21, 2021, 3-4pm
Planned virtual presentation from ALACRITY Center Coordinator, Liz Mace, on her work during her time as Center Coordinator. For the remainder of the hour we will hear from Dr. Christina Yuan, who is joining our ALACRITY Team as Associate Director! Dr. Yuan was previously Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Yuan will be discussing potential research ideas related to our DECIPHeR cardiovascular health equity project.
October 6, 2021, 3-4pm
We are honored to hear from Dr. Susan Azrin, Chief of Early Psychosis Prediction and Prevention Unit in the Division of Services and Intervention Research at the National Institute of Mental Health and Dr. Belinda Sims, Training Director of Division of Services and Intervention Research. They will be presenting on obtaining NIMH funding.
Past Events
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
April 21, 2021, 12:15pm-1:30pm
"State-level enforcement of the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act"
Rachel Presskreischer, PhD Candidate, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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 22nd, 2021 - ALACRITY Center faculty and staff virtually participated in NAMIWalks Maryland.
Stakeholder Advisory Board Meeting
February 17, 2021 - ALACRITY Center Stakeholder Advisory Board Meeting held virtually
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
Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
April 20-23, 2021
Dr. Kim Gudzune presented “Feasibility of an adapted behavioral weight-loss intervention for individuals with serious mental illness in the community”
Dr. Karly Murphy presented “Outcomes after COVID-19 diagnosis for people with versus without serious mental illness”