SCHOOL HEALTH - Key Persons
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- Assistant Research Scientist at the CRRE
- Consortium Deputy Director
Amanda Neitzel, PhD, is an assistant research scientist at the CRRE. She has expertise on school-based health interventions, literacy, meta-analysis, data management, and quantitative research design. While at the CRRE, she has worked on evaluations of school-based vision programs with an emphasis on issues of implementation. She has also conducted multiple systematic reviews, including reviews of elementary literacy as well as educational programs for struggling readers. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Amanda was an elementary school teacher in a traditional public school and also served in the Peace Corps.
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- Team Leader for the CCP 's Baltimore
Amber is the team leader for the CCP's Baltimore-based projects and has more than 15 years of experience in partnering with community organizations and government agencies on community health initiatives to address health outcomes and health disparities through formative research, strategic planning, health communication and evaluation and monitoring.
Amber earned Master of Health Science Degree in Clinical Epidemiology and a PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine
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- Assistant
- Assistant Scientist / Associate Director
Dr. Marshall is an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health and serves as the Associate Director for the Center for Adolescent Health, a CDC funded Prevention Research Center. Her undergraduate training is in health education and she was a certified K-12 educator in the state of Maryland and taught in Batlimore City Public Schools. Her Masters and Doctoral training focused on child health and development particularly how that development is shaped by schools. She over eighteen years of experience conducting research and evaluation projects focused on schools and health in urban school settings. Through her work with the Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education and the Office of Adolescent Health, she focuses on the adaptation of programming for urban youth including recess programs, screening programs, and sexual health education. Dr. Marshall teaches two courses at the Bloomberg School of Public Heatlh including Schools and Health which focuses on research and implementation around the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework and the Asset Based Approaches to Vulnerable Youth which focuses on research, policy, and practice adressing the needs of the most vulnerable young people.
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- Director, Glaucoma Service and Co - Director, Glaucoma Center of Excellence
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- Chairman in Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye
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- Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative
- Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management
Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein is Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the author of the Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times. He is the co-author of the book, The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know. Both books are from Oxford University Press.
Dr. Michael X. Repka is professor of ophthalmology and professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He currently holds the David L. Guyton, MD, and Feduniak Family Chair in ophthalmology. He has contributed in the fields of pediatric ophthalmology, strabismus, retinopathy of prematurity and pediatric neuro-ophthalmology. He led the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group from 1997 to 2009 as chair and is currently a past chair for the research group. PEDIG's network has conducted more than 20 clinical trials in pediatric ophthalmology. Dr. Repka is a past president of AAPOS and has been awarded lifetime achievement awards by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and AAPOS. Dr. Repka currently serves as Vice-chair for Clinical Practice of the Wilmer Institute and Division Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus. He also serves as the Medical Director for Governmental Affairs of the AAO and AAO's CPT Advisor to the AMA's CPT Editorial Panel.
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- Program Officer at the Consortium for School
Gabriela Calderon is the Program Officer at the Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions and at the Center for Adolescent Health. Previously she worked at the Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education at the JHU School of Medicine. Gabriela holds a Master's degree in Education from the Johns Hopkins School of Education. Her research interests include adolescent health, the integration of health and education, and health disparities in the Latino community.
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- Project Coordinator in the Growth & Nutrition Division at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Janny Dinh is the qualitative data manager and a project coordinator in the Growth & Nutrition Division at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She earned a master's degree in chemistry from Purdue University. Now working in public health, her research interests are adolescent health and school-based health. She has worked at UMSOM for the past three years on projects related to student health in school environments, the impact of COVID on children's health, and school meal distribution during COVID-related school closures.
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- Assistant Professor
- Public Health Nurse
Dr. Francis is a public health nurse focused on identifying ways children from vulnerable communities are provided with the best environment to ensure their health and well-being. Dr. Francis utilizes a Community-Based Participatory approach to research in which she partners with early care and education and school settings, community, and governmental organizations to develop and test acceptable solutions to address social determinants of health and to improve childcare and school wellness policies and practices. Dr. Francis is a fellow of Maryland's Nurse Leadership Institute, and recently completed the Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Fellowship in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing. She earned a Bachelor's in Neuroscience at Smith College and a Ph.D. in Nursing at Johns Hopkins University.
Megan E. Collins, M.D., is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute. She specializes in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus, including amblyopia (lazy eye), congenital cataracts, retinopathy of prematurity, vascular anomalies and craniofacial malformations. Dr. Collins received her medical degree from the University of Chicago, where she also completed a fellowship in clinical medical ethics. After an internship in internal medicine at the University of Maryland, she returned to the University of Chicago for her residency in ophthalmology, followed by a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus at the University of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. ​Since becoming a faculty member at Wilmer she has focused on researching the doctor-patient relationship, barriers in access to eye care, epidemiology of pediatric eye disease, and the impact of refractive error on academic performance. As part of all of these research areas she currently leads Hopkins' activities for Vision for Baltimore (V4B), a collaborative school-based vision program providing vision screening, eye exams, and eyeglasses to every child preK-8th grade in Baltimore City Public Schools. She is one of the co-founders of the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions
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- CEO of the Success for All Foundation
Dr. Madden is the CEO of the Success for All Foundation, which develops, researches, and disseminates educational programs to increase achievement, particularly for disadvantaged students. She is also a professor at the Center for Research and Reform in Education at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University.