2024 Baltimore Health Equity Impact Grant Recipients
Graduate Student – Community Grants
1. Exploring Teacher Buy-In of School-Based Outdoor Learning
Student Partner: Lisa Nehring, PhD candidate, Johns Hopkins University School of Education
Community Partner: Laura Genello, Farm to School Specialist Baltimore City Public Schools - Food & Nutrition Services
2. Partnerships in Equity, Advocacy, and Community in East Baltimore (PEACE)
Student Partner: Sydney Wade, Nurse Clinician, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Community Partner: Cynthia Gross, President of the C.A.R.E Community Association, Inc.
3.Wellness for the Whole Black Girl Safety Promotion Intervention
Student Partner: Dr. Kamila Alexander, PhD, MSN/MPH, BSN, BS, RN, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Community Partner: Nazaahah Amin, Co-Founder and Program Director, Bmore Empowered
Undergraduate Student – Community Grants
1. Peabody at the Shelter
Student Partner: Taylor Wang, Student, Peabody. Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
Community Partner: Cris Flack, Grant Coordinator, Helping Up Mission (HUM)
Faculty – Community Grants
1. Fostering Durable Well-Being Among Under-Served Baltimore Residents via an Interactive, Longitudinal, In-Person Wellness Program
Faculty Partner: Debraj Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Community Partner: Yale Partlow, Maryland Community Engagement Center (CEC)
2. Fostering Health Equity in Youth: A Community-led Implementation of the Stay Active Program for Children and Youth
Faculty Partner: Nada Lukkahatai, PhD, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Community Partner: Tina Brown, Clinical Research Consultant/Co-PI, Health and Fitness Coach at Divine Fitness
3. Integrative Health and Healing in Southwest Baltimore: A Pilot Program
Faculty Partner: Lan Angela Li, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Community Partner: Edna Manns-Lake, Founder, Fayette Street Outreach
4. Understanding Overdose Prevention Sites in Baltimore Harm Reduction Programming
Faculty Partner: Susan Sherman, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Community Partner: Anne Langley, Executive Director, Charm City Care Connection