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USA

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Joining the COVID-19 response in our hometown.

  • Since its inception in 1974, Jhpiego has been headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Now, we’ve teamed up with the Baltimore City Health Department—as well as the Washington, D.C., Health Department—to tackle COVID-19.

Our Technical Areas in USA

Our Work in USA

Jhpiego and Baltimore City Health Department’s COVID-19 response

Jhpiego is drawing upon its global experience in capacity building and contact tracing to provide training, technical assistance and ongoing support to the Baltimore City Health Department’s COVID-19 response and to the Baltimore Health Corps. The Baltimore Health Corps is a health and jobs recovery program to hire and train more than 300 people to conduct COVID-19 contact tracing and care coordination across the city. In a time of record unemployment, this initiative is generating long-term career paths while at the same time supporting the city’s public health response to COVID-19. The scope of Jhpiego’s support includes the development and provision of training, ongoing implementation and performance support, metrics and reporting, human resources and operational management, provider outreach, and support for public health education and community engagement. Jhpiego’s role on this initiative is funded by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health via Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Baltimore City Health Department through the Mayor’s Office. Baltimore Health Corps, which has the potential to be a national model for a federal public health jobs program and an economic driver for local communities, is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and various other partners including the Baltimore Ravens and Blaustein Family Foundation. For more information, click here.

COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing for the U.S. Capitol Community

With funding awarded by the U.S. House of Representatives, a Jhpiego-led consortium is implementing a one-year project to provide comprehensive and rapid COVID-19 case investigation, contact analysis, tracing and notification services for the U.S. Capitol community in Washington, D.C. Jhpiego is providing overall leadership and ensuring seamless coordination with the Office of the Attending Physician and other units within the Capitol campus, as well as D.C. Health and other Health Departments in the District, Maryland and Virginia area. In addition to providing training, day-to-day oversight and quality assurance, Jhpiego is developing and maintaining an electronic data portal to track cases and contacts. Consortium partners are the Midtown Group, which is hiring and managing the contact tracing workforce, and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, which is providing epidemiologic analytic support.

The people we serve

Early Lessons from the Baltimore Health Corps Pilot

Mayor Brandon M. Scott, Baltimore City Health Department, Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, The Rockefeller Foundation Announce Findings of Baltimore Health Corps Pilot Early Lessons Report Baltimore, Md. – Today, Mayor Brandon M. Scott, the Baltimore City Health Department, the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, The Rockefeller Foundation, HealthCare Access Maryland, Jhpiego, Baltimore Corps, the

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The Messenger Matters

Contact tracing works. But only when people answer the call, stay on the phone and comply with the guidance and instructions offered. New data indicate that isn’t happening as often as it should to tamp down the pandemic. What if Baltimoreans knew more about who was calling, and recognized the voices as neighbors, as friends?

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Country Contact

Kristina Grabbe, Senior Technical Advisor

Email: Kristina.Grabbe@jhpiego.org

Baltimore, MD USA

Current and Recent Donors

Baltimore City Health Department

Bloomberg Philanthropies

U.S. House of Representatives