Vanya Jones, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Bloomberg
Behavior and Society
vjones**[ta]**ph.edu
Vanya Jones, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior
and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a core faculty
member of the
populations. She investigates both intentional and unintentional injury risk factors, specifically those that increase risk of
severe disability or death. Through her training and initial research experiences, she has an understanding of the social
environment’s impact on behaviors and developed skills to identify critical factors for positive behavior modification.
Dr. Jones received her MPH from the
and Health Education and her PhD from the Johns
Health, Behavior and Society. She is currently investigating strategies that reduce violence among urban adolescents and
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Deborah Agus, JD
Assistant Professor, Bloomberg
Mental Health
dagus**[ta]**ph.edu
Deborah Agus received her law degree from
spent most of her career in field of public mental health policy. As Counsel and
Director of Policy at Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc., the local mental health
authority for
project for persons suffering from serious and persistent mental illness who were targeted as the State’s heaviest users
and a system-wide crisis service. After leaving BMHS, she served as a consultant to local governments on issues of
system design and also helped to develop case rate models in other jurisdictions. She is currently the Executive Director
of the Behavioral Health Leadership Institute and an Adjunct Faculty member of the
Public Health where she teaches classes on developing public mental health systems and mental health and the law. As
Executive Director of BHLI, Deborah has implemented programs to deliver services to underserved populations and
created training programs for para-professional staff and a mentored training program for persons treating children and
youth with sexual behavior problems. She is currently serving as a member of the State’s SIM [State Improvement
Model] - Local Health Action Coalition Committee. Additionally, Ms Agus and BHLI have served as the site for several
student internships and received the 2011 Source Community Service Award for Faculty. Ms. Agus is the author of
several articles related to mental health services and is the author of the Law Chapter in the book Public Mental Health,
Ed. Dr. Eaton, published 2012 Oxford Press.
Lilly Engineer, MBBS/MD, DrPH, MHAAssistant Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
at the
Armstrong Institute for Quality and Patient Safety
lenginee**[ta]**ph.edu
Lilly D. Engineer, MBBS/MD, DrPH, MHA, is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the
Health Policy and Management at the
She is associate faculty in the Armstrong Institute for Quality and Patient Safety. Her
primary research interests include the quality and safety of medical care especially in the
rural and underserved areas. She co-directs the Department of Health Policy and
Management’s Doctorate of Public Health program and Certificate in Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes Research.
Her 4 most recent research projects over the past 8 years included 2 AHRQ funded grants and an NIH funded grant.
Those grants include: 1) “Rural Hospitals: Environment, Strategy, and Viability” (AHRQ funded) provided to examine the
impact of Federal policy changes and healthcare market forces on the organizational and management strategies,
financial viability and clinical performance of
Using Electronic Health Records” (NIH funded) provided to improve school-aged childhood immunization rates among Apredominantly African American, inner city population, utilizing and comparing interventions. She is also on the AHRQ
funded task force working to evaluate and provide recommendations on how to improve the AHRQ Quality Indicators.
Dr. Engineer’s patient safety research work also includes the development of the first anonymous intensive care unit
safety reporting system (ICUSRS) in the
training patient safety improvement researchers and practitioners worldwide. She was a member of the Expert Review
Panel of the U.S. Pharmacopeia MEDMARX Data report, a chart book of 2004-2005 findings from ICUs and radiologic
services. She is developing the Practicum course for the CQPSOR to be offered in AY 2013-2014 for which she will be the
lead faculty.
She enjoys life’s predictability as well as the not so predictable moments as she balances/juggles between being a wife,
professional, mother of 2 beautiful children-7 year old daughter and 5 year old son & various other roles.
Carolyn Fowler, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor School of Nursing, Department of Community Public Health, and
Director of Evaluation and Core Skills Training at the Mid Atlantic Public Health Training
Center.
cfowler1**[ta]**.edu
Carolyn Cumpsty Fowler teaches extensively both in university and community settings. Her
commitment to practice-relevant adult education is inspired by Nelson Mandela’s opinion that:
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Carolyn
combines her love of teaching with experience in nursing, public health practice, injury
prevention, workforce development, and evaluation. She is committed to using evaluation and education to improve the
design, delivery and impact of organizational and community-level programs. In addition to her faculty role, Carolyn
serves as Evaluation Coordinator at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, and Director of Evaluation and Core
Skills Training at the
Education in the Health Professions program has reinforced her believe that inter-professional, collaborative, and
reflective learning opportunities (such as the SOURCE Service Learning Fellowship) can be transformational.
Deborah Gioia, PhD
Associate Professor, Bloomberg
Health, Behavior and Society
dgioia**[ta]**ph.edu
Deborah Gioia, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D in 2001 from the University of
Southern California,
doctorate as an LCSW for 17 years at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and
Hospital (NPI&H), mainly on an NIMH longitudinal protocol (Neuchterlein, PI)
focusing on early-onset schizophrenia. She also worked extensively on an NIMH
community-based protocol at USC, Predicting Psychosocial Rehabilitation Service Outcomes (Brekke, PI), which focused
on severe mental illness, prediction of service use, assessment of cognitive functioning, and important functional
outcomes(i.e. vocational, social). She received an NIMH R03 grant to research The Meaning of Work for Young Adults
with Schizophrenia: A Mixed Method Study. She received a second NIMH R03 grant to look at community functioning
and cognitive ability in a small community sample. Currently her research has been focused on veteran’s mental health
issues and including family members in treatment.
Dr. Gioia began her academic career at the
of
stress management and the PhD qualitative methods course. Dr. Gioia is an adjunct faculty member at the Bloomberg
Beth Sloand, Ph.D., CPNP-BC
Associate Professor,
esloand1**[ta]**.edu
Elizabeth Sloand is an Associate Professor at the
Acute and Chronic Care. She teaches primarily in the Masters Program where she
coordinates the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Track. She is an actively practicing pediatric
nurse practitioner, providing primary care to children from infancy through adolescence in Avariety of settings. Her specific area of expertise is in the care of children with acute and
chronic conditions who are made vulnerable by their circumstances, both domestically and
internationally. Dr. Sloand is known for her clinical experience in and expert knowledge on
health care in
public health researcher. Twenty percent of Dr. Sloand’s faculty role is clinical where she
cares for children at Bayview’s Children’s Medical Practice. The balance of her time is in
education, scholarship, and service.
Community Fellows
Adrienne Atlee, MPH
Public Health Program Manager, International Rescue Committee
Adrienne.Atlee**[ta]**cue.org
Adrienne Atlee is the Public Health Program Manager with the International Rescue
Committee in
promotion and education initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of resettled
refugees and asylees, and to ensure their access to and awareness of appropriate health
care services and resources. Such programming includes the Special Health Needs
program to provide care coordination for the medically vulnerable, the Pregnancy
Support Program to provide assistance to pregnant women and their families, the
Community Health Promoters program, an education, referral and advocacy program
which trains and employs refugee women to provide health promotion information and
skills development through in-home visits, and the New Roots nutrition, food security and
community gardening initiative. She joined the IRC in 2009 as the Public Health Advocate.
Adrienne earned a BS in Biological Sciences from
Sciences from the
Millennium Villages Project in
health workers in an innovative initiative to provide targeted health interventions to schoolchildren and HIV/AIDS
orphans.
Pam Brown
Director of Maternal and Child Health and Multicultural Programs,
Medical System
Pam.Brown**[ta]**i.org
Pamela Bohrer Brown a resident of
a member of a bilingual/bicultural family. She has been active in the Latino community of
Cultural competency in health care and access to health care for immigrants are areas of
particular interest. As the Prenatal Coordinator of Planned Parenthood of
1999 through 2002, she had the opportunity to accompany many immigrant women
through labor and delivery as a doula (labor companion). She is a trained medical
interpreter and trainer of interpreters. Pamela has worked on increasing access to health care for immigrants with
Outreach; formerly served on the Baltimore City Commission of Social Services and was an Associate Editor for “Progress
in Community Health Partnerships”, a journal dedicated to Community-Based Participatory Research. She currently is
Director of Maternal and Child Health and Multicultural Programs for Baltimore Medical System and coordinates the
activities of B’more for Healthy Babies in Patterson Park North and East.
Andrew Timleck, MPH, PhDc
HIV Educator/Client Advocate, AIRS/Empire Homes of
Andrew**[ta]**shome.org
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