February 7 is National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), which was first observed in 1999. This observance is a day to acknowledge how HIV disproportionately affects Black people. Black communities have made great progress in reducing HIV. #HIV

Excited to have been selected to receive funding and resources to advance #HealthEquity research and improve health outcomes as pa of the Google Health Equity Research Initiative, in partnership w/ Fitabase! blog.google/technology/hea…

✨This fantastic paper was led by Dr. Laurel Sharpless and published in @socscimed - mental health! Amazing results on implementing #restorativejustice policies for #IPV survivors ⚖️👩🏾‍⚖️ Trace Kershaw

Thank you TheMochaLab for all of your support and Dr. Tiara C. Willie for your mentorship!

Extra shoutouts to those involved -- Kamila A. Alexander @TheDejaKnight Brenice Duroseau, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, RNC-OB, AAHIVS Ashleigh LoVette, PhD, Gloria Mpundu, Dr. Tiara C. Willie -- and so many others!

Johns Hopkins University Bouchet Society Scholars of Johns Hopkins University (2023): ⭐️ Oscar Reyes Gaido ⭐️ @TheDejaKnight ⭐️ Lois Dankwa-Branche ⭐️ @Mr_Hopkins8 ⭐️ Scribe. ⭐️ @FranklinJ_ ⭐️ Franklyn Hall ⭐️ Dr. Alexis Peña ⭐️ Dr. Marah Wahbeh

Thank you to @TheDejaKnight and Karlye, two PhD students in the MOCHA Lab, who have led two workshops recently: Introduction to Data Cleaning in STATA and Introduction to Visual Abstracts!

Two years in the making and FINALLY published in BMC! 50 brave Black women surviving #IPV during #COVID shared their stories of housing insecurity. Great collab with Sabriya Linton Karlye Phillips Shannon Whittaker, PhD @TheDejaKnight Ujima Community Nicole Overstreet JHU American Health

The #MOCHALab is #NowHiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore gender-based violence and HIV prevention in Black women through mixed-methods research. The fellow will be responsible for quantitative analyses and dissemination of research. Email [email protected] to apply!

📢Please RT. Share with your network! Ready to be part of a dynamic team? Apply for the Behavioral Health Specialist position in the MOCHA Lab at Dept of Mental Health at BSPH! Make strides in #HIV prevention for #BlackWomen through community-engaged research! jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimore-…

#OnThisDay in 1955, Montgomery, Alabama teen Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a city bus. Decades after her refusal to relinquish her seat she said of her protest, “History had me glued to the seat.” #WomensHistoryMonth #SmithsonianWHM

🌟Great news🌟 Dr. Lisa Bowleg and I will be leading a virtual, interactive training for doctoral students: Get That Dissertation Done! Navigating the Intersectional Dissertation on May 17th, 2024! Only 30 spots!🏃🏾‍♀️Get one b4 it's too late #phdlife #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

Last night’s use of #SayHerName by Marjorie Taylor Greene during the SOTU Address reflects a deeply offensive trend in right-wing politics – the intentionally misleading appropriation of justice-seeking demands from those who have historically been rendered voiceless.

A nurse referred to me as the tech (twice) after I introduced myself as the resident. She later “apologized” stating that normally doctors are dressed nicely, which is why she didn’t recognize me (I’m in blue figs scrubs and a patagonia) aka what every resident wears 🙃

Spotlighting the critical importance of PrEP interventions for cisgender women in HIV prevention. Let's bridge the gap in access and empower women to take control of their sexual health. #PrEP #HIVPrevention #WomensHealth #ImpSci

Congratulations to my brilliant mentor! 👏🏾👏🏾

Our next highlight for Women’s History Month is Dr. Tiara Willie! She is a social epidemiologist who studies gender-based violence, including IPV, reproductive coercion, & child sexual abuse, using the social ecological model to develop interventions to reduce violence #WHM

Congratulations to my mentor!!! 👏🏾👏🏾

I am excited to share that our article on PrEP modality and service delivery preferences is now available at BMC Public Health! Thank you for my team of brilliant mentors for guiding me while I engaged in this important work. link.springer.com/article/10.118…