Research Projects & Funding

Title: W.I.N.G.S. (Women Integrating, Networking, & Growing in Spaces) Research Study

Description: Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF9048), we are examining the place-based factors that affect health outcomes of Black young women ages 16-24 in Maryland.

Available research opportunities: PhD research opportunity

Contact: [email protected]

Title:  Prenatal Support and Tri-Core Conceptual Model

Description: Active clinical research investigating online prenatal support for pregnant women in substance recovery, Tri-Core Breastfeeding Conceptual Model in Primary Care and validity clinical research among breastfeeding dyads and lactation education initiatives in Nursing and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner programs.

General pediatrics in primary care setting and breastfeeding/lactation care in the primary care setting.

Contact: [email protected]

Title: NSP II Grant 19-109 Preceptor Education for Vulnerable Populations

Description: F This grant is a three-year project to increase preceptor engagement in the Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner Program. Clinical experience is an essential component of nurse practitioner (NP) education. The goal of this program is to develop and implement a preceptor support program to enhance the relationships among NP faculty and preceptors and build a core of committed clinicians who have advanced capacity, especially in care of vulnerable populations, to teach nurse practitioner students. The impact of the proposed project will be increased partnership between students, faculty, and practicing clinicians, the ability to expand the NP workforce by providing adequate preceptors to a variety of students, and increase availability of preceptor training with focus on topics about care of vulnerable populations. The team has surveyed preceptors for their incentives and barriers to precepting. Out of the results has come an organized preceptor portal on the SON website, populated with preceptor information, a way to communicate to the faculty, preceptor guidebook and continuing education. Five education modules relevant to care for vulnerable populations are available to preceptors for continuing education credit.

Contact: [email protected]

Title: PTSD and TBI Patient Outcomes

Description: We will assess the life course experience of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and the impact on health outcomes in a cohort of Veterans who are TBI survivors. We will be conducting brief surveys and interviews with individuals to identify timeline of event to treatment, explore decision making process for seeking treatment and describe individual symptom experience and outcomes on health. Recruitment starts in June, funded by Jonas Foundation/SIGMA

Available Research Opportunities: PhD student research opportunity, work study student opportunity.

Contact: [email protected]

Title: Caregiver Support in the Context of Multiple Chronic Conditions (P30 pilot)

Description: T We are developing and testing an intervention to support caregivers of people living with advanced heart failure. The intervention focuses on assessing the caregiver as a whole person and using a life purpose statement to guide goal-setting related to self-care, instrumental and social support.

Available research opportunities: PhD student research opportunity, DNP student study team positions, work study student opportunity .

Contact email: [email protected]

Title: Heart Failure Resilience Intervention for Caregivers (HEROIC) BIRCWH award

Description: We are developing and testing an intervention to support caregivers of people living with advanced heart failure. We are adapting the Caregiver Support intervention to focus goal-setting on preventive health behaviors and walking during intervention visits.

Available research opportunities: PhD student research opportunity, DNP student study team positions, work study student opportunity

Contact email: [email protected]

Title: CAPABLE Caregiver

Description: Adapting the CAPABLE program (which is a program to support older adults to achieve daily functional goals to age in the community) to better support caregivers of people living with physical disability

Available research opportunities (e.g. PhD research opportunity, postdoctoral research opportunity, work study student opportunity)

Contact: Dr. Sarah Szanton
Email:  [email protected]

Title: CAPABLE Family

Description: Adapting the CAPABLE program (which is a program to support older adults to achieve daily functional goals to age in the community) for people living with dementia

Available research opportunities (e.g. PhD research opportunity, postdoctoral research opportunity, work study student opportunity)

Contact: Dr. Sarah Szanton
Email:  [email protected]

Title:  Reducing racial disparities in health: Addressing structural discrimination and resilience

Description: to develop a measure of structural racial discrimination and resilience, test it in national datasets, understand how structural discrimination impacts Health and develop interventions.

Available research opportunities (e.g. PhD research opportunity, postdoctoral research opportunity, work study student opportunity)

Contact: Dr. Sarah Szanton
Email:  [email protected]

Title: Palliative Care

Description: Using participatory action research methodology experience-based co-design to improve experiences. The main focus is in palliative care but other fields are also addressed, with the methodological approach partnering with patients, their family/caregivers, clinicians and healthcare workers, and those in academic spaces to collaborative explore and identify means for co-designing strategies for improving experiences.

Study 1: ‘The Emergency Department – A Safety Net Model for Palliative Care’ focuses on the emergency department and adult populations with palliative care needs.

Study 2: ‘Reimagining Interdisciplinary Team to Address Health Disparities in Palliative Care’ focuses on the untapped potential of non-clinical staff and their role in patient care as understood by patients, families and the non-clinical staff.

Study 3: ‘An Experience-Based Co-Design Project with Nursing Students, Faculty, and Disability Services Staff to Increase Access for Students with Disabilities’. This is a collaborative project that partners with students, faculty and clinical instructors to co-create a multi-media toolkit to improve the experiences of students at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

Study 4: ‘Co-designing care in partnership: Working with Puerto Rican & Korean/Korean American communities to tailor shared decision-making at the end of life’. This study partners with Puerto Rican and Korean/Korean American partners to identify strategies to improve palliative care in critical care environments.

Study 5: ‘Addressing Humility in Palliative Care’. This international project uses co-design to develop design principles to support palliative care clinicians when supporting patients and families whose needs fall beyond the traditional remit of standard palliative care training.

Study 6: ‘Adapting experience-based co-design to humanitarian aid contexts’. This international project partners with international aid organizations to develop a proof of concept map for integration and adaptation of the methodology to improve co-design of palliative care services in humanitarian aid contexts.

Available Research Opportunities: Within and in addition to these project there are different research opportunities (including research residencies, research honors and Fuld programs, volunteer and co-investigator collaboration) for students across post-doctoral, PhD, DNP and MSN programs to collaborate in different activities from setting up studies, to data collection and analysis, project management experience, and dissemination activities such as manuscript publications and community engagement activities.

Contact: [email protected]