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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
A group of people stand in front of the new Great Plains Hub building as David Warne cuts a ribbon that stretches across the building
Indigenous health
Center for Indigenous Health opens new South Dakota location
Published Oct 17, 2024
The Great Plains Hub recently opened in Rapid City, South Dakota, under the leadership of Donald Warne, the center's co-director
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Joseph Amon to direct Center for Public Health and Human Rights
Published Oct 16, 2024
Amon, who comes to Johns Hopkins from Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health, brings years of experience advocating for human rights
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University news
Hopkins public health expert joins Center for Urban Families in unique partnership
Published Oct 15, 2024
Bloomberg School faculty epidemiologist Amanda Smith will serve as organization's director of research and evaluation to advance its work strengthening families, addressing poverty
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Opioid epidemic
Overdose deaths lower U.S. life expectancy by nearly a year
Published July 30, 2024
Data analysis sheds light on the scope of opioid-related deaths, including sharply rising totals among young minorities