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Bonnielin Swenor: Faculty Directory

Bonnielin Swenor, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor
Director, Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center
Bonnielin Swenor
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Specialties and Expertise

  • Aging
  • Big Data
  • Community
  • COVID-19
  • Dementia
  • Disabilities
  • Diversity
  • Equity
  • Gerontology
  • Health Policy
  • Public Health
  • Quantitative Research Methods/stats
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Workforce Development

Overview

Bonnielin Swenor is the 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. She holds joint appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Wilmer Eye Institute and in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Swenor’s research is motivated by her personal experience with low vision and focuses on three overlapping areas: (1) removing barriers to health and economic wellbeing for people with disabilities, (2) addressing healthcare disparities for the disability community; and (3) ensuring people with disabilities have equitable access to education and are included in research.

Additional Resources

Below are selected resources. For more information, please see full CV.

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  • Publications/Research

    Assi L, Deal JA, Samuel L, Reed NS, Ehrlich JR, Swenor BK. Access to food and health care during the COVID-19 pandemic by disability status in the United States. Disabil Health J. 2022 Jan 19:101271.

    Swenor B, Deal JA. Disability Inclusion as a Key Component of Research Study Diversity. N Engl J Med. 2022 Jan 20;386(3):205-207.

    Varadaraj V, Guo X, Reed NS, Smith K, Boland MV, Nanayakkara AJ, Swenor BK. Identifying Accessibility Requests for Patients With Disabilities Through an Electronic Health Record-Based Questionnaire. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e226555.