Ms. Bone’s research has focused on Health promotion in underserved urban African American populations using community based participatory approaches in randomized clinical trials testing the efficacy and program effectiveness of interventions using nurse supervised indigenous community health workers. These studies include cardiovascular disease, and CVD risk factors, diabetes and most recently cancer detection and control. Ms. Bone also has assisted in the planning and evaluation of the Mid Atlantic public health workforce training project. She serves as an Associate Editor for the new Journal entitled “Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action.”

Ms. Bone’s courses include; “Health and Homelessness’ and “Practicum in Community Health”, as well as workshop entitled “The Nuts and Bolts of Community Based Participatory Research.”, and “Seminar Series in CBPR”. As part of her efforts to link the two distinctly separate sections of city – East and West Baltimore, she has helped initiate a Baltimore Schweitzer Fellows Program. The Program provides volunteer service opportunities and support for health and human service graduate students from the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University and Notre Dame College.

comunity-based health promotion programs, community-based participatory research, community health workers, evaluation sustainability, health education, health policy and management, prevention of youth violence, cardiovascular disease, tobacco control, diabetes, cancer prevention and treatment

1993 Johns Hopkins University Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Community Service.

1982 Certificate of Appreciation, State of Maryland for Outstanding Leadership and Dedicated Services to High Blood Pressure Control.

1982 Certificate of Appreciation, East Baltimore Community Hypertension Program.

1987 Certificate of Appreciation, State of Maryland Governors Commission on Black and Minority Health: Task Force of Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer and Other Leading Causes of Minority Morbidity and Mortality.

Brown, JD, Bone LR, Gillis L, Treherne L, Lindamood K, Marsden L. Service Learning to Impact Homelessness: The Result of Academic and Community Collaboration. Public Health Reports. 2006; 121: 343-348.

Baptiste-Roberts K, Gary TL, Bone LR, Hill MN, Brancati FL. Perceived Body Image among African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes. Patient Education and Counseling. 2006; 194-200.

Han H, Kim MT, Rose L, Dennison C, Bone L, Hill MN. Effects of Stressful Life Events in Young Black Men with High Blood Pressure. Ethnicity and Disease, 2006; 16:64-70.

Brownstein JN, Bone LR, Dennison C, Hill MN, Kim M, Levine DM. Community Health Workers as Interventionists in the Prevention and Control of Heart Disease and Stroke. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005; 29:128-133.

Hill-Briggs F, Gary TL, Bone LR, Hill MN, Levine DM, Brancati FL. Medication adherence and diabetes control in urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes. Health Psychology July 2005. Gary, TL, Batts-Turner, M, Bone, LR, Yeh, H, et al. A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Nurse Case Manager and Community Health Worker Team Interventions in Urban African-Americans with Type 2 Diabetes. Controlled Clinical Trials, 2004; 25:53-66.

Gary TL, Bone LR, Hill MN, Levine DM, McGuire M, Saudek C, Brancati FL. Randomized control trial of the effects of nurse case manager and community health worker intervention on risk factors for diabetes-related complications in urban African Americans. Preventive Medicine, 2003; 36.

DeFrancesco S, Bowie JV, Frattarolli S, Bone LR, Walker P, Farfe, MR. The Community Research, Education, and Practice Consortium: Building Institutional Capacity for Community-Based Public Health. Public Health Reports, 2002; 117: 414-418.

Levine DM, Bone LR, Hill MN, Stallings R, Gelber AC, Barker A, Baylor I, Harris EC, Zeger SL, Felix-Aaron KL, Clark JM. The Effectiveness of a community-Academic Health Center Partnership to Decrease the Level of Blood Pressure in an Urban African-American Population. Ethnicity and Disease, 2003 Summer; 13(3): 354-361.

Felix-Aaron KL, Bone LR, Levine DM, et al. Using participant information to develop a tool for the evaluation of community health worker outreach services. Ethnicity and Disease, 2002; 12: 87-96.

Hill-Briggs, F., Gary, T.L., Hill, M.N., Bone LR, Brancatti, F.L. Health-Related Quality of Life in Urban African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2002; 17:412-419.

Gary TL, Bone LR, Hill MN, Levine DM, McGuire M, Saudek C, Brancati FL. Project Sugar 1: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Behavioral Interventions to Improve Diabetic Control in Urban African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes. (In Press, Preventive Medicine)

Clark, JM, Bone LR, Stallings R, Gelber AC, Barker A, Zeger S, Hill MN, Levine, DM. Obesity and Approaches to Weight in an Urban African-American Community. Ethnicity and Disease, 2001; 11:676-686.

Roary MC, Hill MN, Bone LR, Levine DM. Innovative Strategies That Dispel the Myths about Urban Young Black Men with High Blood Pressure. Cardiology Review and Reports. 21:129-137, 2000.

Bone LR, Levine DM, Hill MN, Stallings R, Gelber A, Barker A, Baylor I, Harris EC, Zeger S, Felix-Aaron K, Clark JM. Community Health Survey in an Urban African American Neighborhood: Distribution and Correlates of Elevated Blood Pressure. Ethnicity and Disease.10 (1):88-95,2000.

Hill MN, Bone LR, Kim MT, Miller DJ, Dennison CR, Levine DM. Barriers to Hypertension Care and Control. American Journal of Hypertension.12: 951-958, 1999.

Gelber AC, Wigley FM, Stallings RY, Bone LR, Barker AV, Baylor I, Harris CW, Hill MN, Zeger SL, Levine DM. Symptoms of Raynaud's Phenomenon in an Inner-City African-American Community: Prevalence and Self-reported Cardiovascular Comorbidity. J Clin Edpidemiol.52(5): 441-446, 1999.

Hill MN, Bone LR, Hilton SC, Roary MC, Kelen GD, Levine DM. A Clinical Trial to Improve High Blood Pressure Care in Young Urban Black Men: Recruitment, Follow-Up and Outcomes. American Journal of Hypertension, 12(5);1-7, 1999.

Rizkallah-Shediac M, Bone LR. Planning for the Sustainability of Community-Based Health Programs: Conceptual Frameworks and Future Directions for Research, Practice and Policy. Health Education Research: Theory and Practice, 131(1); 87-109, 1998.

Hill MN, Bone LR, Butz AM. Maximizing the Effectiveness of Community Health Workers in Research. Images. 28(3): 221-226, 1996.

Levine DM, Becker DM, Bone LR, Hill MN, Tuggle II MB, Zeger SL. Community-Academic Health Center Partnerships for Underserved Minority Populations - One Solution to a National Crisis. Journal of American Medical Association, 272(4): 309-311, 1994.

Stillman F, Bone LR, Becker D, Rand C, Levine DM. The Heart, Body, and Soul: A Church-Based Smoking Cessation Program for Urban African Americans. Preventive Medicine, 22(3):335-349,1993.

Levine DM, Becker DM, Bone LR. Narrowing the Gap in Health Status of Minority Populations - Description of a Community-Academic Medical Center Partnership. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 8(5):319-323, 1992.

Petri M, Spence D, Bone LR. Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors in the Hopkins Lupus Cohort: Prevalence, Patient Recognition, and Preventive Practices. Medicine, 71(5):291-301, 1992.

Levine DM, Becker DM, Bone LR, Stillman FA, Tuggle MB, Prentice M, Carter J, Filippeli J. A Partnership With Minority Populations - A Community Model of Effectiveness Research. Ethnicity and Disease, 2(3):296-305, 1992.

Levine DM, Bone L. The Impact of a Planned Health Education Approach on the Control of Hypertension in a High Risk Population. Journal of Human Hypertension, 4:317-321, 1990.

Kim MT, Hill MN, Bone LR, Levine DM (2000). Development and Testing of the Hill-Bone Compliance to HBP Therapy Scale. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing. (In Press)

Kim MT, Hill MN, Dennison CR, Bone LR, Levine DM. Relationship of Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use with High Blood Pressure Care and Control Among Urban Hypertensive Black Men. Ethnicity and Disease. (In Press).