Virtual Nursing Grand Rounds: Advancing Health Equity for People with Disabilities

JHSON Virtual Nursing Grand Rounds: Advancing Health Equity for People with Disabilities

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association, will offer a monthly Virtual Nursing Grand Rounds Continuing Nursing Education Series, providing an educational program led by top researchers from around the world.

In this grand rounds, Dr. Bonnielin Swenor from the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center will discuss the health inequities that impact the disability community. Attendees will understand modern conceptual frameworks of disability and review what nurses can do to advance equity for people with disabilities.

The Virtual Nursing Grand Rounds Series will offer attendees one free education credit upon completion of a post-event quiz after each session, with the goal of fulfilling the JHSON’s mission of providing lifelong learning for health care professionals within the community. 

The Virtual Nursing Grand Rounds Series is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Center for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care, and the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association. The Center for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care works to significantly reduce cardiovascular health disparities through community engagement, scientific investigation, education, and policy initiatives. The Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association builds upon the foundation laid by generations of Hopkins nurses, sponsoring programs, preserving history and connecting alumni. 

ABOUT Dr. Bonnielin Swenor
Director of the Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center; Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Dr. Bonnelin Swenor is the founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center, which aims to  shift the paradigm from ‘living with a disability’ to ‘thriving with a disability’ through research, education, and policy.  Dr. Swenor’s research is motivated by her personal experience with low vision. Her work takes a data-driven approach to advancing health equity for people with disabilities. To achieve this, she focuses on three areas: (1) developing novel methods to assess and track health and healthcare inequities for people with disabilities; (2) testing innovative strategies to reduce these inequities, and (3) building approaches that promote disability inclusion in research and higher education. Dr. Swenor is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing,  the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Wilmer Eye Institute and in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her PhD and MPH degrees at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 Event Date
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Start Time: 11:30am EDT
End Time: 1:00pm EDT

 Contact
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
son-dar@jhu.edu

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