Berman Institute Monthly Newsletter – April 2021
April 2021
Announcements
The Johns Hopkins eSchool+ Initiative has created the eSchool+ Teacher and School Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard to track vaccinations for teachers and school staff across the United States, District of Columbia, Bureau of Indian Education, and major US territories. The purpose of this dashboard is to capture real-time information about state vaccination plans for teachers and school staff. The launch of the Dashboard has received media coverage in The Hub, Fox News, WBALTV, Futurity, and Associated Press.
The eSchool+ Initiative also launched the COVID-19—Global Education Recovery Tracker, a collaborative effort of Johns Hopkins University, the World Bank, and UNICEF. The purpose of the Tracker is to capture ongoing information about the global status of schools, teachers and students amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This information is intended to be of use for education and public health policy stakeholders and researchers from around the world. In this second year of the pandemic, and as many countries are starting to move from emergency responses towards policies aimed for recovery, the tracker aims to support this process by focusing on data that can help build back better and more resilient education systems. The Tracker has received media coverage in The Baltimore Business Journal, The HUB, and was cited in The Guardian.
Marie Nolan PHD, MPH, RN, FAAN, has been appointed to serve as interim dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
Michael DiStefano successfully defended his dissertation, “Novel Approaches for Incorporating Social Values in Health Technology Assessment to Support Universal Health Coverage,” and will be awarded a doctoral degree in May.
Rebecca Seltzer was chosen as an Academic Pediatric Association Health Policy Scholar. Dr. Seltzer will serve in the inaugural cohort of this 3-year career development program for child health policy and advocacy.
Events
Addressing COVID-19 Learning Loss in Special Education
Johns Hopkins eSchool+ Initiative Webinar Series
April 5, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT:
Panel: Aaron Parsons, Laurie DeBettencourt, Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy; Moderated by Alan Regenberg – Link for more info and to connect via Zoom
Together, We Can End Recidivism
Centering the Voices of Formerly and Currently Incarcerated People and Leaders in the Movement
April 6, 12:00 pm EDT
Each one of our Flikshop postcards are filled with words of love, emoji’s, confessions of yearning, and some pain. They tell a story, and founder Marcus Bullock knew that we needed to figure out a way to leverage this love to help end recidivism around the globe. Via zoom, free registration available online
Adopting Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in the Criminal Justice System
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy
April 13, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Sharing perspectives from frontline providers. Speakers: Brendan Saloner, Colleen Barry, Alene Kennedy-Hendricks, Sachini Bandara, Noa Krawczyk, Tyler Winkelman, & Alexandra Duncan. Via Zoom, free registration available online.
On the Outrage of Black Mothers: Healing the Past in the Present
27th Annual Shallenberger Lecture
April 20, 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Joanne M. Braxton, PhD, M.Div, will speak. Register here.
Tamra Lysaght, PhD, of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore, will report the key findings from empirical bioethics research aimed at identifying the boundaries of the social license needed to share data under broad consent for precision medicine
Outreach
March 24
Joseph Ali, along with Effy Vayena, served as panelists on Vaccine Passports, COVID Surveillance, and Social Justice at an event sponsored by ETHIC Georgia Tech Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center.
March 16
Jeffrey Kahn was invited to present at Regeneron Science Talent Search Prime Time Opportunity with the Berman Institute of Bioethics.
March 14
Leonard Rubenstein spoke about Protection of Health Care in Armed Conflict at the Consortium of Universities in Global Health.
March 11
Leonard Rubenstein lectured at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies in the Watson Institute at Brown University. His lecture was titled Drivers of Violence Against Health Care in War.
March 8
Jeffrey Kahn served on a panel titled Contact Tracing Goes Viral: Value and Ethics of Digital Contact Tracing at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).
March 2
Leonard Rubenstein spoke at a webinar, Violence and Threats Against Health Care Related to COVID-19 [YouTube], hosted by Insecurity Insight and the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition.