📢LOOKING FOR A GREAT POST-DOC POSITION in HTN, Community-Based Clinical Trials, Shared Decision-Making? You don't want to miss this Hopkins Nursing opportunity: apply.interfolio.com/143700. Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing JHU Welch Center Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity NINR
Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN Patricia Davidson Please circulate🩷

JUST RELEASED | The April 2024 theme issue on #PerinatalMentalHealth & Well-Being is now available. Read the introduction and explore the issue: bit.ly/3xqLpXG

BREAKING: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott hits back hard after racist Republicans absurdly blame him for the ship collision that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, calling him 'DEI mayor' because he's Black.

This is the PERFECT response...

'I know, and we know, and you know…

talk about baltimore without being racist 2024 challenge

When Dr. Aletha Maybank speaks, it’s worth pulling up a chair. Grateful for her honest sharing of what it’s like to navigate equity work in medicine right now.

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Our first ever theme issue on #housingandhealth ! Such an important topic and incredible work in this issue of Health Affairs

On January 18, 2023 Community Health Workers and allies are headed to the General Assembly. Here are some ways YOU can engage in these efforts:
1. Know Your Legislator

whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov

2. Connect and engage through social media

3. Join us on January 18, 2024

My bestie is better than yours!!! 😍😍 So proud of, and inspired by, the amazing Anika Hines!!

TOMORROW! Join us for our January Jam Session, featuring Bunmi Ogungbe who will share her talk 'Tailoring Cardiometabolic Health Interventions for our Neighbors and Around the World.' Register today!

🗓️ Wed, Jan. 10
🕒 3 - 4:30 PM
📍 Virtual
Register🔗 loom.ly/LqITRWs

Always a pleasure to highlight the critical work of community based organizations in advancing health equity. Population Health Institute for Excellence in Health Equity CSAAH NYU-H+H CTSI

Researchers gave homeless people $750 per month for a year, no questions asked. The recipients spent the money on food, housing, transportation, clothing, and health care. And after six months, only 12% of those who received funds were still homeless.

latimes.com/california/sto…

The Welch Center is excited to have Anika Hines back next week for Grand Rounds!

Join us in person (or tune in online) for her presentation on 'Achieving Health Equity in Cardiovascular Outcomes: The Role of #ChronicStress .'

#WelchWOW

Grateful for the opportunity to discuss disparities in hypertension control and equity in access to renal denervation therapy with Dr. Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA at #AHA23 . AHAMeetings Hopkins Nursing Cardiology Today American Heart MD

1/ Welcome back from Thanksgiving! ICYMI- several important findings on unstable housing and other social needs and kidney disease came out this month. Neatly summarized for you in this brief thread🧵

I really enjoyed participating in this engaging conversation at APHA #APHA2023 about strengthening and supporting the US public health workforce 👇🏽

My principles for achieving health equity (Jones CP, Medical Care 2014; Jones CP, Newsweek 2020) are also core principles for a just world:

1) Value ALL individuals and populations equally
2) Recognize and rectify historical injustices
3) Provide resources according to need

Outstanding talk by Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN on “Not done until we Disseminate: Engaging the Community, Health System and Policy to Transform Cardiovascular Care” at #AHA23

Critical to leverage dissemination/implementation principles to improve #CV health.

Grateful to STAT and MD Anderson Cancer Center for the incredible honor to be one of this year’s STAT Wunderkind awardees! Huge thanks to Usha for the delightful interview that captured my journey. Such a privilege to be featured! #STATWunderkind #Gratitude