Area of Excellence: Equity
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Amber Davis
Dr. Davis a Research Associate at the Disability Health Research Center. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 7+ years of clinical experience with underserved communities, Dr. Davis has an intersectional lens to supporting minoritized persons with disabilities. As a trauma-informed clinician scientist, Dr. Davis’s research investigates the role of cumulative adversities and intersectional resiliency factors…
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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…
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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…
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Noelene Kimiko Jeffers
Noelene K. Jeffers has over 10 years of experience as a nurse-midwife serving families in federally qualified health centers, hospitals, and free-standing birth centers in Washington, DC. In her research, Dr. Jeffers utilizes a reproductive justice lens to examine the structural and social determinants of Black maternal and perinatal health. She currently leads or collaborates…
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Katherine Ornstein
Katherine Ornstein, an epidemiologist by training, is director of the Center for Equity in Aging. Her program of research focuses on older individuals with serious illness and their families and includes work on the downstream effects of health care on families and caregivers; the epidemiology of the homebound population; burden and cost in dementia caregiving…
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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…
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Brenda Nettles
Brenda Smith Nettles is a board certified acute care nurse practitioner with over 20 years of nursing experience. She is an expert in providing care for patients confronted with the life-altering diagnosis of cancer. She played an integral role in the development of several cancer treatment programs, while also establishing the standards for evidenced based…
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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…
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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…
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Angela Capello
Angela Capello came to Johns Hopkins after serving as a system nursing professional development (SNPD) educator for the largest health care system in Louisiana. During doctoral studies in curriculum and instruction at Louisiana State University, Dr. Capello’s research centered upon under-represented nursing student populations and the social and cultural differences leading to unsuccessful completion of…