Vanya Jones, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health,

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 Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. Her research agendAhas focused on psychosocial and environmental factors and their impact on the burden of injuries among vulnerable

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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the Department of Health Behavior

and Health Education and her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from the Department of

Health, Behavior and Society. She is currently investigating strategies that reduce violence among urban adolescents and

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2013-2014 Faculty Cohort

Deborah Agus, JD

Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of

Mental Health

dagus**[ta]**ph.edu

Deborah Agus received her law degree from Cornell Law School in 1979 and has

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 Baltimore City, Deborah designed and implemented a case rate pilot

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 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of

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 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Health Policy and Management at the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Associate Faculty in 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 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and

Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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 U.S. rural hospitals; and 2) “Improving Childhood Immunization Compliance

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 US. She serves on a WHO task force that created a practical curriculum guide for

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

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management (Joint);

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 MidAtlantic Public Health Training Center. Her experience in the inaugural cohort of the Masters of

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 School of Public Health, Department of

Health, Behavior and Society

dgioia**[ta]**ph.edu

Deborah Gioia, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D in 2001 from the University of

Southern California, School of Social Work. She had worked prior to obtaining her

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 University of Michigan in 2001 and has been on the faculty of the University

of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work, since 2006. She teaches advanced clinical skills in serious mental illness,

stress management and the PhD qualitative methods course. Dr. Gioia is an adjunct faculty member at the Bloomberg

School of Public Health teaching Ethnographic Fieldwork which has a practicum component.

Beth Sloand, Ph.D., CPNP-BC

Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Acute and Chronic Care

esloand1**[ta]**.edu

Elizabeth Sloand is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing in the Department of

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 Haiti, where she has worked as a volunteer clinician, nurse educator, and

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 Baltimore, Maryland. The public health program implements diverse health

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 Duke University, North Carolina and a MPH in Environmental Health

Sciences from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York. She has worked with the

Millennium Villages Project in Sauri, Kenya, where she coordinated a team of local healthcare providers and community

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, Baltimore

Medical System

Pam.Brown**[ta]**i.org

Pamela Bohrer Brown a resident of Baltimore, MD, resided in Venezuela for 17 years and is

a member of a bilingual/bicultural family. She has been active in the Latino community of

Baltimore for over 15 years and worked in a number of health education programs.

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 Maryland from

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

Baltimore HealthCare Access and Baltimore Medical System. She is a member of the Board of Education-Based Latino

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 Maryland

Andrew**[ta]**shome.org