Faculty Profile for Dr. Monica Lynn Schoch-Spana

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Dr. Monica Lynn Schoch-Spana
Research Associate Professor — Anthropology
ELA 266
phone: (512) 245-8272
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Brunson, E. K., Schoch-Spana, M., Carnes, M., Hosangadi, D., Long, R., Ravi, S., … Veenema, T. G. (2021). Carrying equity in COVID-19 vaccination forward: Guidance informed by communities of Color. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
  • Schoch-Spana, M., Brunson, E. K., Hosangadi, D., Long, R., Ravi, S., Taylor, M., … Veenema, T. G. (2021). Equity in vaccination: A plan to work with communities of Color toward COVID-19 recovery and beyond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
  • Schoch-Spana, M. L., Brunson, E. K., Ravi, S., Taylor, M., Trotochaud, M., & Hosangadi, D. (2022). The CommuniHealth Playbook: How to Spur on Your Local Community Health Sector. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved from https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2022/2022117-CommuniHealth-playbook.pdf
  • Schoch-Spana, M. L., & Brunson, E. K. (2022). Raising the big tent: Translating knowledge to action in the COVID-19 pandemic. Second Opinion. Society for Medical Anthropology. Retrieved from https://mailchi.mp/f6f0e5e0c0ae/second-opinion-jan-2022-vol-10-no-1#mctoc4
  • Schoch-Spana, M. L., Brunson, E. K., Long, R. A., Alexandra, R., Ravi, S., Trotochaud, … White, A. (2021). The public’s role in COVID-19 vaccination: Human-centered recommendations to enhance pandemic vaccine awareness, access, and acceptance in the United States. Vaccine, 39(40), 6004–6012.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor for 2015. November 1, 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Department of Anthropology Fellowship Award, School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. 1995 - 1996
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Department of Anthropology Fellowship Award, School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. 1989 - 1991
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College. 1986

Selected Grants

  • Schoch-Spana, Monica Lynn (Principal). Mass Population Displacement after Nuclear Terrorism: How to Hasten & Strengthen the Recovery of Uprooted, FEMA; Gryphon Scientific (C), $20000. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
  • Schoch-Spana, Monica Lynn. Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society Grant, Hagley Museum and Library. (Funded: 1996). Grant.
  • Schoch-Spana, Monica Lynn. Summer Research Travel Grant Johns Hopkins University Program in Atlantic History, Culture and Society. (Funded: 1989). Grant.
  • Schoch-Spana, Monica Lynn. Lita Osmundsen Summer Fieldwork Fund Grant, Johns Hopkins University Department of Anthropology. (Funded: 1989). Grant.
  • Schoch-Spana, Monica Lynn (Co-Principal), Brunson, Emily K (Co-Principal). CommuniVax 2.0, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $500000. (Funded: November 2021 - December 2022). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Editorial Review Board Member
Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy
April 2019-Present
Member
Roundtable on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
January 1, 2019-Present
Editorial Board Membership-Associate Editor
Health Security
January 2015-Present
Member
Homeland Security Subcommittee of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Board of Scientific Counselors
2014-Present
Reviewer / Referee
National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, Gulf Research Program – Thriving Communities Grants
2019