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  • When Your Head Is Splitting: Headaches and Migraines

    Headaches and migraines can stop us in our tracks, and chronic headaches and migraines can completely derail our lives. How do you tell the differences between headaches and migraines? Neurologist Anne Yacoub examines the many different types of headaches and their causes, defines the similaritie...

  • When Your Head Is Splitting: Headaches and Migraines

    Headaches and migraines can stop us in our tracks, and chronic headaches and migraines can completely derail our lives. How do you tell the differences between headaches and migraines? Neurologist Anne Yacoub examines the many different types of headaches and their causes, defines the similaritie...

  • What Is the Role of Business in Health?

    The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative creates a collaborative space across Johns Hopkins University to incubate, accelerate, and disseminate impactful, world-class research on the business of health. It is supported by the Johns Hopkins’ Carey School of Business, the Bloomberg School of Publi...

  • Vaccine Access in the Era of COVID-19 with the Johns Hopkins India Institute

    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 ...

  • Understanding Stroke and the Heart-Brain Connection

    It is estimated that someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds, and every 4 minutes, someone will die from stroke. Are you prepared if this were to happen to you? How can you lower your risk for stroke? In recognition of May as National Stroke Awareness Month, Dr. Johansen will...

  • Trauma: The Wounds You Cannot See

    How can we process traumatic events like the COVID-19 pandemic? What will be the lasting impact and how do we identify it? Join this lecture with School of Nursing Assistant Professor Tamar Rodney to explore how the ongoing presence of the COVID-19 pandemic could manifest as post-traumatic stress...

  • The Moore Center, Help Wanted: Helping People Stay Safe

    Recognizing that April marks National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Hopkins at Home present a series of conversations featuring faculty from the Bloomberg School of Public Health discussing this impor...

  • The COVID-19 Crisis in India

    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...

  • Super-spreading Events: Lessons from India on Containment of COVID-19

    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...

  • Smell Loss in COVID-19: Who Nose What's Going On

    Although sudden smell loss has long been a consequence of acute viral infections, this sudden sensory loss is a unique marker of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with implications on disease tracking, pathophysiology, and potentially long-term consequences for the many of millions of persons infect...

  • Showcase Series: The Unique Pediatric Trauma and Burn Programs at Johns Hopkins

    Please join Del. Emily K. Shetty (District 18) as she leads a discussion with Dr. David Hackam, M.D., Ph.D. (Pediatric Surgeon-in-Chief, The Johns Hopkins Hospital-Bloomberg's Children Center), Dr. Isam Nasr (Director of Pediatric Trauma Program), and Dr. Erica Hodgman (Director, Pediatric Burn P...

  • Sex Differences in Stroke Recovery

    There are many differences between the sexes, particularly regarding stroke prevention and recovery. Join Elisabeth Marsh, M.D., cerebrovascular neurologist and director of the comprehensive stroke center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, as she explains differences in stroke etiology and ...

  • Session 3: Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan

    Throughout their lifetimes, women will experience changes in their moods as a consequence of aging. From puberty to post-menopause, these physical, emotional, and physical changes can be confusing and concerning. In Session 3, Assistant Professor Lindsay Standeven addresses the transition to men...

  • Session 2: Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan

    Throughout their lifetimes, women will experience changes in their moods as a consequence of aging. From puberty to post-menopause, these physical, emotional, and physical changes can be confusing and concerning. In Session 2, Associate Professor Lauren M. Osborne addresses mood and anxiety symp...

  • Session 1: Women’s Mental Health Across the Lifespan

    Throughout their lifetimes, women will experience changes in their moods as a consequence of aging. From puberty to post-menopause, these physical, emotional, and physical changes can be confusing and concerning. In Session 1, Liisa Hantsoo, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor, addre...

  • Session 2: Segregation and Civil Rights in the American Health System

    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...

  • Session 1: Segregation and Civil Rights in the American Health System

    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...

  • Segregation and Civil Rights in the American Health System

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    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...

  • Reframing Child Sexual Abuse as a Preventable Public Health Issue

    Recognizing that April marks National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Hopkins at Home present a series of conversations featuring faculty from the Bloomberg School of Public Health discussing this impor...

  • No One Was Immune: The History and Science of Pandemics in the Americas

    Join John Hessler for a lecture focused on the genomics and geospatial transmission of infectious disease, concentrating on the VARV Variola virus (Smallpox), from which we have the oldest complete genome sequence, on the science of ancient DNA sequencing, and on the complexities of mapping the g...

  • Neglected Tropical Diseases

    Brought to you by Hopkins at Home and the Office of Alumni Relations / Lifelong Learning.

    Join us for a virtual webinar examining the world of tropical disease through the lens of Malaria and Onchocerciasis (also known as Riverblindness). On the heels of a global pandemic, disease transmission f...

  • Mental Health Tools for a Resilient Brain

    You can’t see your brain, and yet your mental health impacts you everyday. How do you create a more resilient brain through life transitions, loss, stress, and change? Join us for this talk with Counselor and Career Coach Caitlin Magidson to explore what mental health is, cognitive strategies to ...

  • Manipulating Life: The Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies

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    Join Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, for a two-session lecture series in which you explore the ethics of gene editing. During these live sessions, you will reflect on and discuss the ways in which science and ethics are i...

  • Living with Pain: The Philosophy, Science, and Ethics of Addiction

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    This course combines personal narrative with philosophy and science to explore a key question about addiction: Why do people use drugs despite harrowing negative consequences and how can we better help them when they do?

    Hanna Pickard (BA Hons, BPhil, DPhil) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professo...