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Joining the COVID-19 response in our hometown.

  • Since its inception in 1974, Jhpiego has been headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • In 2020, we teamed up with the Baltimore City Health Department to tackle COVID-19, and expanded that support to Washington, D.C., in 2021.
  • With the Baltimore City Health Department, Jhpiego trained more than 200 contact tracers from August 2020 to June 2021, and helped get 80% of eligible Baltimore City residents vaccinated against COVID-19 by February 2022.

Our Work in USA

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

Jhpiego has drawn upon its global experience in scale-up of large public health programs, training and mentoring of community health workers, disease investigation and vaccines delivery to provide training, technical assistance and program management support to the Baltimore City Health Department’s COVID-19 response. As part of the innovative, multi-partner Baltimore Health Corps Initiative launched in June 2020, Jhpiego supported the hiring, deployment and training of more than 200 contact tracers, all of whom had lost their jobs or had their work substantially affected due to the economic fallout of the pandemic. With the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in December 2020, Jhpiego’s role expanded to: developing a training for vaccination workers; building a team of community health workers for mobile vaccination clinics; and hiring a team of people to support, manage and advise a community-centered vaccine outreach and education response, also known as COVAX.

The people we serve

Jhpiego to Present Global Humanitarian Award to Shawn and Serena Levy

LOS ANGELES, CA – It’s no strange(r) thing that philanthropists Shawn and Serena Levy will be taking center stage alongside comedian Hasan Minhaj and Dr. Beena Patel Minhaj at the Laughter Is the Best Medicine 2022 gala on Monday, December 5, at the Beverly Wilshire, hosted by global health nonprofit Jhpiego. An extraordinary storyteller and

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Preparing the world’s future Changemakers

Baltimore, Maryland – On a rainy Friday afternoon in early May, Eva Killingstad sat in a classroom at Roland Park Country School, diligently researching, writing and building a website on women’s reproductive health. As the school year was coming to an end, Eva and classmate, Talya Kohan-Gaffar, had decided on an education campaign as their final project for one of Roland Park’s newest classes—Changemakers.  Eva, 15, learned a

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Making Change

As a global leader in the business of saving lives and transforming futures in the world’s most challenging places, Jhpiego, as you might imagine, is working overtime—and enlisting new talent.  Amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating impact on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, Jhpiego is looking to the next generation to share ideas, energy and passions as they focus on resolving societal concerns important to them.  Through the aptly named Changemakers curriculum, Jhpiego is building

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Changemakers

Country Contact

Kristina Grabbe, Senior Technical Advisor, US COVID-19 Project Director

Email: Kristina.Grabbe@jhpiego.org

Baltimore, MD USA

Current and Recent Donors

Baltimore City Health Department

Bloomberg Philanthropies

U.S. House of Representatives

 

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