Healthy Communities, Workplaces, & Lifestyles
The health and well-being of communities is dependent on a multitude of factors. Environmental sustainability touches many of them: community food systems, green space & urban tree canopy, and access to clean, drinkable water among them. Sometimes oversimplified to an issue of choice, the health status and lifestyle choices of community members are often a byproduct of the systems – political, economic, social – in which they exist. Many JHU affiliates study and implement methods to increase agency and accessibility to resources within communities across impact areas.-
Angela Aherrera
Research FellowDr. Angela Aherrera is a joint postdoctoral research fellow at the Pediatric Pulmonary Division of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research expertise is in exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology and mainly revolves around environmental hazards (i.e., heavy metals, microplastics) from certain industries (i.e., tobacco, apparel) and how they impact consumers/workers' health. -
Daphene Altema-Johnson
Program Officer, Food Communities & Public HealthDaphene Altema-Johnson, MPH, MBA, RDN, LD, uses her expertise and experience as a nutritionist to support the Meatless Monday campaign. She’s especially interested in reaching young people with wellness messages through school programs and community outreach to effect generational change. -
Daniel J. Barnett
Associate ProfessorDaniel Barnett, MD, MPH '01, studies emergency preparedness, response, and recovery to identify approaches for optimizing population health in emergencies and disasters. -
Jane Bennett
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in HumanitiesJane Bennett, PhD, specializes in political theory: ecological philosophy, art and politics, American political thought, political rhetoric and persuasion, and contemporary social theory. -
Martin W. Bloem
ProfessorMartin W. Bloem, MD, PhD, has primarily focused on challenges that include blindness prevention, public health, nutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, food security and food access, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. -
Kristin Brig-Ortiz
Graduate FellowKristin Brig-Ortiz, M.A., is currently interested in clean water supply and access in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony and Natal, especially the intersection of water shortages, contamination, and social/cultural tensions in port cities. She is more broadly interested in the racial and class dynamics of public health in British Africa.
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