Area of Excellence: COVID-19

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Lisa Grubb

    Lisa Grubb

    Dr. Lisa Grubb is a proven nursing executive renown for building strong cohesive leadership teams and moving complex organizations to sustained operational excellence in quality, operations, financial and growth arenas.  Her experience spans nearly every area of health care operation in both non-profit and for-profit sectors.  She has held senior level management positions in single…

  • Cecília Tomori

    Cecília Tomori

    Cecília Tomori is an anthropologist and public health scholar whose work investigates the structural and sociocultural drivers that shape health, illness, and health inequities. Tomori is internationally recognized for her expertise on breastfeeding, infant sleep, and maternal child health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has supported numerous organizations focused on maternal child health and advocated…

  • Michelle Patch

    Michelle Patch

    Michelle Patch is board certified as an adult health clinical nurse specialist and an advanced forensic nurse. She has held progressive clinical, operational, and safety leadership positions in various acute care, ambulatory, emergency, and austere settings. Her internationally recognized scholarship and clinical practice address patient, staff, and public health safety, specifically during times of crisis,…

  • Jennifer Milesky

    Jennifer Milesky

    Jennifer Milesky is a registered nurse and nurse educator with two decades of bedside experience. Dr. Milesky’s clinical expertise includes adult critical care, trauma, and nursing professional development, which was pivotal to her role in supporting non-ICU nurses transitioning to the ICU environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work now focuses on supporting nursing students…

  • Nancy Reynolds

    Nancy Reynolds

    Nancy R. Reynolds is the associate dean of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; director, Center for Global Initiatives; co-director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Information, Knowledge Management; and co-secretary general, Global Network of the WHO Collaborating Centers of Nursing and Midwifery. Formerly the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing at Yale…