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Pandemic

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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
An Enemy of the People promotional flyer
Politics+Society
Public health discourse takes center stage
Published Feb 20, 2024
Dramatic readings from Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play 'An Enemy of the People' will pair with guided discussions during two performances in D.C. this week
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Public health
JHU experts play lead roles in epidemic preparedness project
Published Sept 19, 2023
Center for Health Security, others from across Hopkins receive CDC funding to help communities prepare for future emerging health threats
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Oh, memories, where art thou?
Published Spring 2022
Recent research highlights the pandemic's impact on our perception of time and memory. Can we jumpstart new memories, or is this shift permanent? / Johns Hopkins Magazine
illustration of memory matching card game, featuring pandemic-themed cards such as hand sanitizer and a cocktail
Cognitive Psychology
Oh, Memories, Where Art Thou?
Published April 4, 2022
Recent research highlights the pandemic's impact on our perception of time and memory. Can we jumpstart new memories, or is this shift permanent?
PekoPeko Ramen
Community
PekoPeko feeds hospital staff, city residents
Published May 7, 2020
As restaurants struggle with a decline in business, alum-owned PekoPeko Ramen experiments with a solution that benefits the people who need hot meals most
Baltimore Spirits Company hand sanitizer
Community
Baltimore Spirits Co. boosts local hand sanitizer supply
Published April 30, 2020
Using its small-batch whiskey-making know-how, Baltimore Spirits Company is producing hand sanitizer for the Baltimore community
Under Armour no-sew mask
Community
Under Armour, Hopkins team up to make face masks
Published April 13, 2020
The no-sew face masks are manufactured by the Baltimore-based athletic company and assembled by Hopkins volunteers
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That's the spirit
A single-malt hand sanitizer
Published April 1, 2020
Johns Hopkins and Baltimore distillery Sagamore Spirit are working together to manufacture the disinfectant for use at Johns Hopkins Health System
Volunteers assemble face shields in a warehouse
Protective equipment
Some assembly required
Published March 30, 2020
An around-the-clock army of volunteers is creating 5,000 plastic face shields a day for use by clinicians at Johns Hopkins