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Tom Polen
Health policy forum
JHU to host conversation with Becton Dickinson CEO Tom Polen
Published Nov 3, 2023
He will speak with Carey Business School Dean Alex Triantis as part of the university's Health Policy Forum series on Nov. 7
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Hopkins in D.C.
Search for inaugural School of Government and Policy dean begins
Published Nov 2, 2023
The search committee will be chaired by Provost Ray Jayawardhana
David Leonhardt
Hopkins in D.C.
Hopkins Bloomberg Center launches Authors & Insights series
Published Oct 30, 2023
Series starts with book events featuring 'New York Times' author and columnist David Leonhardt, SAIS expert Eliot Cohen
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Q+A
The rules of war and human rights
Published Oct 27, 2023
Human rights expert Len Rubenstein explains how laws governing war apply to health and human rights in the evolving Israel-Gaza conflict
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hopkins in D.C.
SAIS hosts inaugural Women's International Leadership Summit
Published Oct 24, 2023
Featured speakers include author and activist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Geeta Rao Gupta, U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women's issues
U.S. Supreme Court building in the fall
Q+A
Do guns belong in the hands of domestic abusers?
Published Oct 24, 2023
Kelly Roskam of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions discusses a major firearms case before the Supreme Court
Two adults and a child walk through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City
Q+A
Humanitarian health in Gaza
Published Oct 20, 2023
Frayed health care and an overwhelmed global humanitarian system imperil the health of civilians in Gaza, cautions Hopkins expert Paul Spiegel
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Hopkins in D.C.
Leaders convene at CityLab event
Published Oct 18, 2023
Nearly 600 mayors and urban and civic leaders from around the world take part in 10th annual CityLab conference in Washington, D.C.
Five experts in a Zoom discussion
Video
Experts discuss developing events in Middle East
Published Oct 13, 2023
Hopkins scholars offer perspective and analysis of the Israel-Gaza conflict and what it means for the Middle East, the U.S., and the world
A classroom with some students but some chairs are empty
Education
Chronic absenteeism tests schools
Published Oct 12, 2023
In 2021-22, 66% of American students attended a school where at least one in five classmates missed four weeks of school, according to new analysis