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Covid-19

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Health security

Are we ready for the next one?

Published Spring 2025

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can help us prepare for the next one / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Public health

The sound of science

Published Spring 2025

Launched during the pandemic, the Bloomberg School's Public Health on Call podcast has become a powerful tool to translate fact-based health news to the masses / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Health security

Are we ready for the next pandemic?

Published Mar 19

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can help us prepare for the next one

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Q+A

Convalescent plasma offers a 'blueprint' for future pandemics

Published Feb 3

Hopkins researchers help secure full FDA approval to treat immunocompromised COVID-19 patients—paving the way to explore using convalescent plasma during future infectious disease outbreaks

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Opioid epidemic

Overdose deaths lower U.S. life expectancy by nearly a year

Published Jul 30, 2024

Data analysis sheds light on the scope of opioid-related deaths, including sharply rising totals among young minorities

Faculty honors

Lauren Gardner wins Merck prize to advance pandemic tracking

Published Jul 10, 2024

Engineering professor receives Future Insight Prize for groundbreaking contributions to tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the development of AI systems capable of detecting and tracking future pandemics