Medicine & Public Health
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Lessons for Today from Nine Greats Who Helped Create Hopkins Medicine
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The founding of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine fundamentally changed medicine in America. In the blink of an eye, medicine was transformed from a trade practiced by poorly educated craftsmen, to a science practiced by highly educated physicians. While this transformation may seem...
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Johns Hopkins Programs Impacting Marylanders: School of Nursing
This event highlights the unique partnership between the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the State of Maryland. During the Showcase Series, you will be able to see the benefits of generous state funding by getting an inside look at the newly renovated Pinkard Building, which received a $4 mil...
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Johns Hopkins Programs Impacting Marylanders: JHU Disability Health
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...
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Johns Hopkins Programs Impacting Marylanders: JHHS Opioid Stewardship
This next installment of the Government and Community Affairs’ Showcase Series will highlight two initiatives of the Johns Hopkins Health System Opioid Stewardship Clinical Community: the Overdose Response Program and National Drug Takeback Day. Please join Dr. Suzanne Nesbit, Clinical Pharmacy S...
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India Institute
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The Johns Hopkins India Institute unites Johns Hopkins’ India-affiliated community to improve society through research, education, practice, and
mutually beneficial partnerships, and to help individuals lead healthier lives in India and beyond. The India Institute has focused so far on Hopkins’ g... -
How the Ear Hears, and What We Can Do About It
Ever wondered exactly how your ears hear? Does more time using earbuds on your Zoom calls have you worried about hearing loss? Advances in cellular biology and genetics have helped define the molecular mechanisms by which sound is transduced and transmitted to the brain. With this expanding knowl...
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How Genomics Impacts Modern Life
Join Mike Schatz as he provides an overview of ancestry, explores the role of genomics in the identification and treatment of disease, explains agricultural genetics and the highlights impact of genomics on COVID19 research. To learn more, visit jhu.edu/hopkinsathome
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How Genetic Medicine Can Lead to Better Understanding and Treatment of Disease