Area of Excellence: Community

  • Ashley  Fenton

    Ashley Fenton

    Dr. Fenton is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHUSON), practice owner, dual certified family nurse practitioner and psychiatric nurse practitioner as well as a licensed clinical social worker. Dr. Fenton takes a biopsychosocial approach to patient care and believes that our physical health and mental health are closely intertwined and influenced…

  • Oluwabunmi  Ogungbe

    Oluwabunmi Ogungbe

    Bunmi Ogungbe is a cardiovascular epidemiologist dedicated to using her clinical, research, and public health expertise to improve cardiometabolic outcomes among populations experiencing social marginalization. She collaborates on several community-engaged multi-level interventions leveraging digital technologies to improve hypertension control and management of chronic conditions. She is an emerging leader in community-engaged research seeking to advance…

  • Angela Chang Chiu

    Angela Chang Chiu

    Angela Chang Chiu is a clinical instructor and assistant director of student experiences for the Center for Global Initiatives (CGI). A multilingual nurse with over 10 years of clinical experience in multiple health care settings including public health, acute, and ambulatory care, she is experienced in innovative strategic health advancement with proven expertise in developing…

  • Kathryn Taylor

    Kathryn Taylor

    Kathryn Taylor’s research integrates health care quality and equity concepts to improve outcomes for people living with end-stage kidney disease. Dr. Taylor is a PhD graduate from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Previously, she was corporate vice president of quality at Fresenius Kidney Care, a large dialysis organization with over 2,500 outpatient facilities across North…

  • Erin Spaulding

    Erin Spaulding

    Erin Spaulding’s research expertise includes primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, implementing digital health interventions (DHIs) for chronic disease management, assessing user engagement with DHIs, improving digital literacy among older adults, promoting health and digital equity, and human-centered design methodology. Dr. Spaulding is currently a co-investigator in the Center for Mobile Technologies to Achieve…

  • Bonnielin Swenor

    Bonnielin Swenor

    Bonnielin Swenor is founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center, which aims to shift the paradigm from “living with a disability” to “thriving with a disability” through research, education, and policy. Dr. Swenor’s research is motivated by her personal experience with low vision and focuses on three overlapping areas: (1) removing…

  • Brenda Douglass

    Brenda Douglass

    Brenda Douglass, a nursing leader with over 30 years of experience, began her career at the bedside specializing in emergency nursing. She brings forth a unique perspective as a faculty educator and clinician with a robust career trajectory assimilating academic, clinical, leadership, and administrative roles. Among her previous experience in academia, she launched administrative roles…

  • Deborah Paone

    Deborah Paone

    Dr. Deborah Paone is an independent researcher and President of Paone & Associates, LLC, a firm she founded in 2002 (Minneapolis). Deborah has conducted several multi-year, multi-site implementation evaluations of evidence-based or model programs for older adults and caregivers, examining implementation barriers and facilitators as the programs are translated or disseminated in urban, suburban and…

  • Eliana Perrin

    Eliana Perrin

    Eliana Perrin, a nationally recognized leader in patient-oriented primary care, childhood obesity, and health disparities research, is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with appointments at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing and Medicine (Department of Pediatrics). Dr. Perrin has developed, tested, and disseminated many tools to help pediatricians prevent and treat obesity. Her research focuses on…