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Community health

Captivating views of community health workers

Published Oct 21, 2022

Award-winning photo series was inspired by the work of Johns Hopkins physician-researcher Lisa Cooper, her colleagues, and the community health workers who supported and served Baltimore neighborhoods during the pandemic

Health equity

Two Hopkins researchers receive $20M from NIH

Published Sept 30, 2021

Lisa Cooper, Deidra Crews will lead the Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity, which will address hypertension, obesity, diabetes, heart failure, and kidney disease

Public Health

Higher bar for health care

Published Fall 2021

Reviewing Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Lisa Cooper's 'Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem?' / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Lisa Cooper named to presidential advisory council

Published Sept 22, 2021

Cooper, a health disparities researcher at the schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, among experts appointed to President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

A woman with an oxygen tank is vaccinated for COVID-19

Vaccination

Health disparities and the racial burden of COVID-19

Published June 25, 2021

With new evidence suggesting Black and Hispanic populations were disproportionately affected by the pandemic, experts weigh in on the importance of vaccination and addressing health disparities

Health equity

The silver lining of COVID-19's dark clouds

Published Aug 25, 2020

Johns Hopkins expert in health disparities discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has shed light on the vulnerabilities of communities of color and the need to better protect everyone's health

Lisa Cooper to direct Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute

Published April 21, 2020

Cooper, who has devoted her career to addressing health disparities through her research and practice, shapes new vision for institute with focus on health equity for Baltimore's most vulnerable groups