Women, Children & Family Health
Health Through Protection and Empowerment
Women face diverse and unique health concerns across the lifespan that affect their overall health and wellness. If women aren’t healthy, families aren’t healthy, the world isn’t healthy.
In the U.S., 2 out of every 3 caregivers are women. Yet women in the U.S. (and elsewhere) face many threats to their own health, from sexual violence to poverty to preventable deaths in childbirth, most born of a social structure that leaves so many vulnerable. Johns Hopkins Nursing has long sought to not only protect and heal these women and their families, but to change the societal dynamics.
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A conceptual framework for group well-child care: a tool to guide implementation, evaluation, and research
Well-child care provides a critical window of opportunity to identify and manage health and social challenges and promote child and family health. Given how tightly linked a childbearing parent’s postpartum health is to infant well-being, current postpartum and early childhood preventive care models are not optimal in that many families, particularly those from groups that have been minoritized, do not receive recommended preventive services, and/or are left with unfulfilled needs.
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Our faculty-led, interdisciplinary centers and initiatives strengthen a focused area of scholarship in health care by providing an environment to expand the knowledge base, integrate specific education and practice initiatives, and mentor new scholars.
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Cecília Tomori is Associate Professor and Assistant Director of the DNP Executive/MPH Dual Degree Program, and holds a joint appointment at the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. Dr. Tomori is internationally recognized for her expertise on breastfeeding, infant sleep, and maternal child health. Her research has contributed to the understanding […]
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JoAnne Silbert-Flagg’s scholarship focuses on promoting breastfeeding from pregnancy through weaning via direct patient care and the education of health care professionals. Dr. Silbert-Flagg is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Human Lactation. She is editor of the textbook Maternal and Child Health Nursing (9th ed.), 2023, Wolters Kluwer, authoring five chapters, including “Nutritional Needs […]
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Shawna Mudd, a primary and acute care certified pediatric nurse practitioner, has dedicated her career to the health of children, especially the vulnerable. Beginning as an RN in the pediatric ICU and then a PNP in the pediatric ED, she pioneered the NP child abuse consultant role at Johns Hopkins. Her clinical work spans emergency […]
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Laura Lucas is an advanced practice nurse, clinical faculty member, and coordinator of the Birth Companions program that offers nursing students the opportunity to provide labor support and advocacy services to mothers from various backgrounds. She most recently worked as a clinical nurse specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital while serving as adjunct clinical faculty in […]
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Kristen Brown is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) and the Simulation Strategic Projects Lead for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. In her faculty role, Dr. Brown develops simulation curriculum, plans innovative, immersive training events, and studies the use of simulation as a teaching method. Prior to joining the […]
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Academic Programs
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing offers programs designed to fit the career and research goals of our diverse student population.
- MSN Healthcare Organizational Leadership
- MSN Healthcare Organizational Leadership/MBA
- DNP Advanced Practice: Family Care Nurse Practitioner
- DNP Advanced Practice: Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- DNP Advanced Practice: Pediatric Dual Primary/Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
- DNP Executive
- DNP/MPH
- DNP/MBA
- DNP/PhD
- PhD
- Post-Degree Certificates
- Chicago Parent Program Group Leader Training
- Zamierowski Pediatric Critical Care & Resuscitation Simulation Boot Camp