Scholarship focused on respect and compassionate care
Innovative thinkers and investigators, at Hopkins and other institutions, are engaged in research to characterize best practices in advancing care that is high quality, respectful, and where all patients are shown dignity. Equally important are projects to identify processes and care that may dehumanizing so that these can be dramatically reduced – if not eliminated.
CHM Funded 5 Research Projects by Teams of Hopkins Investigators
Over 100 years ago, Johns Hopkins revolutionized American medicine by highlighting the critical importance of scientific principles in medical practice. However, the Hopkins revolution has not yet been fully realized. Despite a rich history of life-altering medical advances, abundant evidence suggests that many people do not experience fully humanized patient care. Fortunately, research in other settings suggests solutions, all of which should be considered in the provision of medical care.
The CHM research grant projects target dehumanization by exploring the connection between health equity and humanizing medicine, developing methods to measure humanized medicine, and identify gaps and reasons for those gaps in humanized medicine at Johns Hopkins.
Research grant proposals included traditional research, implementation science, cost-effectiveness, and education scholarship in any area related to humanizing medicine—particularly focused on knowing patients as people and treating everyone with respect, dignity, and compassion. Applications were reviewed with a primary consideration of the project’s potential to humanize medicine, in addition to the project’s significance, innovation, feasibility, creativity, and quality of methods. Funded projects explore innovative diagnostics and solutions that span departments at Hopkins.
In 2024, we funded five projects for at most $30,000 each. See below to learn more about our inaugural class of research grant recipients:
