SARA L. GROVES, DrPH, APRN, BC
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Public Health

With an extensive public health clinical practice background, Dr. Sara Groves specializes in international community-based primary care, school health, and maternal and child public health nursing. Her interest in bringing nursing care to underserved populations led her to direct a USAID Child Survival Project, an effort to prevent maternal mortality in the rural mountains of Haiti. Dr. Groves also lived in Brazil for ten years, where she conducted research on breastfeeding. Locally, she has collaborated with Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing colleagues to explore such critical public health issues as grandmothers caring for their grandchildren and innovative care models for underserved populations. Recently, she and colleagues worked with students at two Baltimore schools to address the issue of childhood obesity through a physical exercise program. The Children and Families in Motion program, with $50,000 in grant funding, served 180 seventh and eighth graders at the two schools. She has also worked with a fellow faculty member and students on an anti-bullying program at one of the schools. Dr. Groves is an active mentor who shares her knowledge and expertise with students at all academic levels through direct contact, taking graduate and undergraduate students to Haiti, presenting at national and international conferences and symposia, and publishing in nursing textbooks and journals.