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Health security
Are we ready for the next pandemic?
Published March 19, 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
Jennifer Schrack
Research Matters
Long-running surveys help track trends in aging
Published Feb 25, 2025
The Center on Aging and Health, one of JHU's largest recipients of NIH funds, conducts critical work that provides real-time insights into the condition and care of older Americans
Deborah Gross
Research Matters
Vital support for young students and parents
Published Feb 20, 2025
Federal funding from NIH and the Department of Education supports two long-running educational programs facilitated by Johns Hopkins University researchers
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Research
A new future for immunology research
Published Feb 11, 2025
10-member committee aims to create a groundbreaking, interdivisional organizing structure for immunology at Hopkins
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Health
Developing rapid diagnostic tests
Published Feb 7, 2025
Yuka Manabe and her team at the Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases aim to improve global health with point-of-care tests that give rapid results
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Q+A
Convalescent plasma offers a 'blueprint' for future pandemics
Published Feb 3, 2025
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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Community
Students lead harm reduction efforts
Published Jan 30, 2025
HopOn Harm Reduction hands out free syringes, Narcan, and other supplies to decrease the dangers and stigmas surrounding drug use
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Environmental Health and Engineering
Study finds harmful airborne chemicals in salons
Published Jan 16, 2025
Johns Hopkins researchers found that women of reproductive age are the most vulnerable to the negative health effects caused by chemicals in hair relaxers, dyes, and other salon products
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Public Health
Americans eat high amounts of ultraprocessed foods
Published Dec 10, 2024
Bloomberg School analysis finds that more than half of calories consumed at home by adults in the U.S. come from ultraprocessed foods  
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Nonfiction
Metropolis in Miniature
Published Winter 2024
New book explores the decadeslong rat empire experiments of Johns Hopkins Professor John B. Calhoun / Johns Hopkins Magazine