Front row, from left: Associate Professors Teresa Brockie and Kamila Alexander, new Bouchet Honor Society members Thomas Hinneh, Brenice Duroseau, Laura Mata López, and Faith Elise Metlock, and Professor Yvonne Commodore-Mensah. In back are Dean Sarah Szanton and Jermaine Monk, associate dean of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
The following PhD candidates at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing were inducted in May to the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society:
Brenice Duroseau, a Haitian-American clinician with specializations in infectious diseases and addiction medicine, is an emerging nurse scientist in implementation science, focusing on multi-level interventions to eradicate sexual and reproductive health (SRH) disparities. Her research explores how social, structural, and political determinants shape SRH experiences, engagement, and access for marginalized women across the lifespan.
As a community-driven researcher and policy advocate, Duroseau is committed to dismantling systemic barriers in health care and reimagining SRH services to be equitable, affirming, and holistic. Additionally, Duroseau helps support the next generation of scholars and clinicians through mentorship.
Thomas Hinneh is an American Heart Association predoctoral fellow whose research focuses on cardiovascular health equity, team-based care, and community-based cardiovascular health initiatives. His research in Africa focuses on implementing a team-based approach to cardiovascular disease risk management in primary healthcare settings, while his American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship examines how social determinants of health influence cardiovascular disease outcomes among underserved populations in the U.S.
He is an executive director and co-founder of HI-Foundation Ghana, an NGO dedicated to community-based cardiovascular disease screening in Ghana. Hinneh’s long-term vision is to bridge critical gaps in cardiovascular care through evidence-based and scalable interventions that improve cardiovascular health outcomes in resource-limited settings globally.
Laura Mata López is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who has dedicated her practice to providing accessible, culturally concordant mental health and substance use services to Latino(a) immigrants in under-resourced communities and settings. Her community-based research seeks to generate a nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of Latina immigrants with migration-related trauma and suicide survivorship and to identify key social, cultural, and structural determinants of mental health in this community.
A first-generation immigrant from Costa Rica, Mata López is passionate about empowering other individuals from historically underrepresented backgrounds to participate in research, academic, and policy spaces.
Faith Elise Metlock’s research examines the intersection of social determinants of health, psychological health, and cardiovascular disease prevention and self-management in underserved communities. Through community-engaged approaches, she develops culturally informed interventions to address cardiovascular health disparities.
Beyond academia, Metlock is the founder and CEO of Black Health Explained, a health marketing agency dedicated to engaging underrepresented communities in health initiatives. She also leads the Black Health Explained Foundation as its founder and president, focusing on health literacy and diversifying the health care workforce through mentorship and education.
Johns Hopkins University was inducted as an institutional member of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in April 2018. Named for the first African American in the United States to receive a PhD, the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society seeks to develop a network of pre-eminent scholars who exemplify academic and personal excellence, foster environments of support, and serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy for students and trainees who traditionally have been underrepresented in higher education. It was co-founded in 2005 by Yale University—where Bouchet, a physicist and educator, earned his doctorate in 1876—and Howard University to recognize and continue Bouchet’s pioneering contributions to doctoral education.