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Health equity

Two Hopkins researchers receive $20M from NIH

Published Sept 30, 2021

Lisa Cooper, Deidra Crews will lead the Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity, which will address hypertension, obesity, diabetes, heart failure, and kidney disease

Global Health NOW looks to the future with fundraising campaign

Published Sept 30, 2021

Bloomberg School newsletter seeks to expand news coverage of public health issues

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Traumatic brain injury expert returns to Hopkins Nursing

Published Sept 28, 2021

Jess Gill studies biomarkers to try to understand why some recover well from traumatic brain injuries while others cope with lasting effects on their physical and mental health

Health Policy Forum

Hopkins to host conversation with Merck CEO Robert Davis

Published Sept 27, 2021

Davis, who leads one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, will discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and drug affordability on Oct. 4

Public Health

Higher bar for health care

Published Fall 2021

Reviewing Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Lisa Cooper's 'Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem?' / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Lisa Cooper named to presidential advisory council

Published Sept 22, 2021

Cooper, a health disparities researcher at the schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, among experts appointed to President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Q+A

Diversity in the fight against cancer

Published Sept 22, 2021

Age, race, sex—new National Cancer Advisory Board member Ashani Weeraratna says we need to consider diversity to find a cure

Q+A

Pfizer moves toward booster approval, vaccine for children

Published Sept 22, 2021

FDA, CDC expected to finalize decisions about Pfizer booster doses in same week the company announced that studies of its vaccine for children show promising results