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Mashup Score: 0Alex Solano-Umana Recognized for Contributions to Health Equity Research | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity - 15 hour(s) ago
As Director of Community Outreach at the Lourie Center, Solano-Umana serves as the liaison between the H42 study and the Lourie Center’s home visiting program. Through her role, she recruits participants and contributes to the H42 community engaged research. She also serves as the co-chair of the H42 coordinating council and will be listed as a co-author on the H42 protocol paper because of her significant contributions to the study. Kelly Bower PHD, MSN/MPH, BS, RN, one of the co-Principle Investigators
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Mashup Score: 5Manisha Gupta Advocates for Chronically Ill Patients | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity - 5 day(s) ago
As a full-time patient advocate for disability and health equity, Manisha Gupta, PhD, is leveraging her background in social psychology to address implicit bias and discrimination in healthcare. Gupta, who serves on the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity (CHE) Community Advisory Board (CAB), draws from her experiences as a woman of color with multiple chronic illnesses to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic illnesses. Gupt a’s social psychology training guides her professional trajectory,
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Mashup Score: 1Mysti Harrison Measures Impact of Health Disparity Stress on MS | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity - 6 day(s) ago
Kimystian “Mysti” Harrison, MD, a post-doctoral neuroimmunology fellow working with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, aims to explore the connection between chronic stress and multiple sclerosis (MS) outcomes. By analyzing biomarkers associated with stress levels in MS patients and comparing them across different demographic groups, Harrison hopes to shed light on the underlying mechanisms driving these disparities. Through this research, she aims to identify strategies to improve outcomes and
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“MS research to date has reported largely on racial disparities related to neurologic outcomes,” Bhattarai says. “We are examining how factors such as neighborhood and income can affect the quality of MS care a person receives, especially those from historically underserved groups.” Bhattarai and Bhattiprolu’s study focuses on social determinants of health (SDOH) to help them identify barriers that contribute to racial disparities in MS care. “We hope that by identifying modifiable factors, including
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CHE faculty @JBhattaraiPhD & trainee @k_bhattiprolu are bringing a new perspective to #MultipleSclerosis research, identifying barriers that contribute to racial disparities in MS care. Learn more about their work đź”— https://t.co/B95yM2K8Qu #HealthEquity #HealthEquityResearch https://t.co/moiRxktAAU
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A new systematic review conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Virginia identified rotavirus as the leading cause of death from diarrhea in children under 5 years of age, globally. Using data from 2000 up to 2021, researchers estimated that despite a more than 60 percent decrease from 2000, diarrhea was still responsible for more than 444,000 childhood deaths in 2021—nearly all of which occurred in low- and middle-income countries. The
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Mashup Score: 21Planetary Health Aims to Help Humans by Helping Earth | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 18 day(s) ago
The damage humans have done to the Earth is coming back to harm us.
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Mashup Score: 28Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 19 day(s) ago
Protecting Health, Saving Lives—Millions at a Time
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Mashup Score: 0Study Finds Inequalities in Acute-Care Hospital Admissions of Black Medicare Patients | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 19 day(s) ago
The analysis suggests racial sorting in U.S. hospital admissions exists independent of neighborhood demographics.
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Mashup Score: 4Michelle Ogunwole Aims to Rectify Disparities in Black Maternal Health | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity - 26 day(s) ago
Serena Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD thinks the fact that Black women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women is an injustice worthy of outrage. The internal medicine physician and faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity is devoting her career to channeling that anger into her research to find solutions. “A lot of people probably know by now that there are stark disparities in maternal health outcomes in the United States,” Ogunwole said,
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Mashup Score: 23What’s Happening With Dairy Cows and Bird Flu | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 28 day(s) ago
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been found in dairy cows, raising concerns among scientists about what the spillover could mean for humans—and whether the virus has pandemic potential.
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CHE CAB member, Alex Solano-Umana was honored with the 2024 @JHUNursing Exceptional Community Partner in Research Award. Congratulations, Alex! Read more about Alex's work at The Lourie Center and H42 đź”— https://t.co/UJ2QsJCzxJ @AdventistHC https://t.co/50vwnvFHkA