Economic Stability

Baltimore’s Guaranteed Income Pilot: A Multi-Year Partnership with Baltimore City Mayor’s Office

(2021) Year 1 - Development of a Framework for Centering Health Equity

(2022) Year 2 - Development of Analytic Plans to Evaluate Health Impacts

(2024) Year 3 - Development and Dissemination of an Advocacy Toolkit for Guaranteed Income and Health

Hopkins Faculty Partner: Lorraine T. Dean, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

City Agency/Government Partner: Alexandra Smith, Office of Equity, Health, and Human Services, Baltimore City Mayor’s Office

Description: Guaranteed income initiatives have the potential to improve health outcomes and reduce health differences; however, few existing initiatives have assessed health outcomes or social drivers of health, and none have assessed impacts on population health differences. This project brings together faculty in public health and nursing, who are also members of the Baltimore Mayor’s GI Steering Committee led by the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success, to develop a framework for what health, social drivers of health, and population health differences indicators might be addressed in a guaranteed income pilot; and what sources of data might be available for those assessments.