Who We Are

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Founded in 1916 by William H. Welch and John D. Rockefeller, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a world-renowned institution dedicated to the education of a diverse group of research scientists and public health professionals, a process inseparably linked to the discovery of new knowledge and the advancement of human health and the prevention of disease and disability around the world. The Bloomberg School—the largest public health school in the world—has 2,287 students from 86 nations. The school has over 60 centers and institutes and is involved in ongoing research projects in the US and over 120 countries. The school receives 20 percent of all federal research funds awarded to the 46 accredited U.S. schools of public health. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been consistently rated No. 1 by the U.S. News and World Report since 1994, which was the first year the magazine began ranking schools of public health.

Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solution

Established in 2002, the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solution (HCHDS) is a research center of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The mission of HCHDS is to generate and disseminate knowledge to reduce racial/ethnic and social class disparities in health status and health care through research, training, community partnerships and advocacy. Much of the center's work is done through efforts in research, training and community outreach Previously, HCHDS had an exclusively national focus, with much of its work taking place in the local Baltimore community. In 2011, HCHDS established the ICHAD project with a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, marking a planned expansion of the HCHDS vision and programs. The HCHDS is designated as a National Comprehensive Center for Excellence in Health Disparities by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Over the years, the Kellogg Foundation's programming has continued to evolve, striving to remain innovative and responsive to the ever-changing needs of society. As a general guideline, the Foundation allocates 80 percent of its funding each year to the United States, targeting half of its domestic grants to Michigan, Mississippi and New Mexico, priority states where the need is great and where we have the scale and local knowledge to make the greatest impact. The Foundation invests the remaining 20 percent to promote leadership development and scholarship in Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, northeastern Brazil and southern Africa.

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ICHAD 2012 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

ICHAD 2012 MARYLAND HOST COMMITTEE

ICHAD 2012 Editorial Committee

 

Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, PhD, Professor, Department of Bio behavioral Health, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University

Gillian Barclay, DDS, DrPH, Vice President, Aetna Foundation, Inc.

Wanda Bernard, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Maritime School of Social Work, Dalhousie University

Janice Bowie, PhD, Faculty Associate, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Luisa N. Borrell, DDS, PhD Professor & Chair, Department of Health Sciences, Lehman College, CUNY

Noel Braithwaite, PhD, MSPH, Director, Department of Research and Graduate Studies, University of the Southern Caribbean

Kitty Chan, PhD, Faculty Associate, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH, FACP, Director, Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities and Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Michele David, MD, MPH, MBA, Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University

Josephine Etowa, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa

Darrell J. Gaskin, PhD, Deputy Director, Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Michael Hanchard, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Daniel L. Howard, PhD, Executive Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy, Meharry Medical College

Marjorie Innocent, PhD, Senior Director of Research and Programs, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.

Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Conference Chairman; Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions; William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Healthful Behavior Change, New York University School of Medicine

Keshia Pollack, PhD, Faculty Associate, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Charles N. Rotimi, PhD, Director, Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Institutes of Health  

Brian D. Smedley, PhD, Vice President and Director, Health Policy Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Roland Thorpe Jr., PhD, Faculty Associate, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Antonio Trujillo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health