This next installment of the Government and Community Affairs’ Showcase Series will highlight the Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center. Dr. Bonnielin Swenor will share how the work of the Center is helping to make Maryland a leader in accessibility and disability inclusion a...

In academic histories and popular films and novels, the US civil rights movement centers on bus boycotts, voting booths, water fountains, classrooms, and courtrooms. But did protesters ever picket doctor's offices, hospitals, medical schools, or public health clinics? Join Karen Kruse Thomas from...

In academic histories and popular films and novels, the US civil rights movement centers on bus boycotts, voting booths, water fountains, classrooms, and courtrooms. But did protesters ever picket doctor's offices, hospitals, medical schools, or public health clinics? Join Karen Kruse Thomas from...

As global COVID-19 caseloads accelerate and winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, a study in India may have delivered some key insights into the disease’s transmission. The study, co-authored by Hopkins scientist Brian Wahl, leveraged India’s extensive contact tracing to conduct the world...

In the past weeks, India’s COVID-19 crisis has taken a dramatic turn. India has reported more than 17.6 million cases since the beginning of the pandemic and more than 350,000 new cases early this week. Deaths are on the rise and, experts fear that the numbers might underrepresent the real number...

According to the World Health Organization, immunization currently prevents 2-3 million deaths a year and is one of the greatest successful and cost-effective public health interventions. With the continued spread of COVID-19, there is heightened attention on the need for an effective vaccine as ...

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For decades, global health systems have been transitioning from paper to electronic health records to improve patient data accessibility, particularly to facilitate epidemiological study and preventive care. At the same time, they have wrestled with...

Join the Johns Hopkins India Institute for a look at Hopkins research projects in India involving access to care for at-risk populations, tuberculosis studies, maternal-child health, and leveraging innovative technological solutions.

Sunil Solomon, MBBS, MPH '04, PhD '09 is an Assistant Professo...

Ever wonder how we get money from the halls of Congress and the White House to a lab? Tune in for a primer on the federal budget process and hear firsthand what it’s like to apply for a federal grant from the experts! Join Cybele Bjorklund (MPH), Johns Hopkins Vice President for Federal Strategy,...

A dashboard known around the world, the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University was created by Dr. Lauren Gardner and her team at the cusp of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last year and a half, the website has grown to be a resourc...

Schools have faced unprecedented challenges in the COVID-19 era, including tracking students’ progress and engagement while converting to a virtual environment and/or managing novel hybrid schedules. These challenges have disproportionately affected our most vulnerable students: those from low-in...

There's an old joke that "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Dr. Zaitchik wants to do something about it, and with weather patterns changing all over the world, we have to do something about it. His team doesn't try to change the weather, but they do try to...

Around the world, from Italy to Brazil, from Hungary to the United States, populist candidates and governments are fundamentally changing the political landscape. In this course, Yascha Mounk -- Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, and Associate Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins...

Around the world, from Italy to Brazil, from Hungary to the United States, populist candidates and governments are fundamentally changing the political landscape. In this course, Yascha Mounk -- Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, and Associate Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins...

Around the world, from Italy to Brazil, from Hungary to the United States, populist candidates and governments are fundamentally changing the political landscape. In this course, Yascha Mounk -- Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, and Associate Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins...

Starting in Putin's Russia, this course will analyze how propaganda has been transformed across the world. Join Peter Pomerantsev to look at how this challenges traditional ways of defining a democratic information environment, and consider ways we can reinvent a world besieged by bots, trolls, f...

Starting in Putin's Russia, this course will analyze how propaganda has been transformed across the world. Join Peter Pomerantsev to look at how this challenges traditional ways of defining a democratic information environment, and consider ways we can reinvent a world besieged by bots, trolls, f...

Starting in Putin's Russia, this course will analyze how propaganda has been transformed across the world. Join Peter Pomerantsev to look at how this challenges traditional ways of defining a democratic information environment, and consider ways we can reinvent a world besieged by bots, trolls, f...

The relationship between black and minority communities and medical institutions has long been plagued with mistrust and skepticism. In the United States, there is a long history of the exploitation and manipulation of members of black and minority groups in medical research which include the Tus...

Why is there so much debate about “school choice” in American education? How do other democracies support choice – and why? Join Ashley Berner, Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, as she brings to life the idea of an American education system that draws upon the p...

In their new book, Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities, authors Matthew E. Kahn, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business and Director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC) at Johns Hopkins, and Mac McComas, senior program manager at 21CC, explore the recen...

How do we assign responsibility or blame for a pandemic? Who is deserving or undeserving of government assistance during a public health crisis? Who do we trust to provide us with information about the risks associated with coronavirus? There is no single ‘right’ answer to these questions. Instea...

Francis Gavin, the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at SAIS, argues that history can be employed to better understand and improve statecraft and strategy. It is not a history of a particular event, person, pla...