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Politics+Society

Atul Grover
Changemakers
An advocate for health policy solutions
Published Jan 4, 2023
Atul Grover, who earned a PhD from the Bloomberg School in 2004, serves as executive director of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Research and Action Institute
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Expert Opinion
Is TikTok stealing more than just your time?
Published Dec 21, 2022
Cybersecurity expert Anton Dahbura discusses growing concerns with the popular app, citing potential data theft as a risk to U.S. security
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Expert insights
The promise and peril of ChatGPT
Published Dec 16, 2022
The viral language-model artificial intelligence app recently released by OpenAI holds great promise and frightening potential, says Carey Business School expert Tinglong Dai
Headshot of Johns Hopkins alumnus Nabiha Syed
Fighting for your right to know
Published Winter 2022
Nabiha Syed, A&S '07, parlayed a high-profile career in media law into heading The Markup, a news outlet monitoring Big Tech / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Urban policy
Putting a price on Baltimore's vacant housing
Published Winter 2022
A recent report from the Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative finds that Baltimore's roughly 15,000 vacant properties cost the city an estimated $210M each year in lost revenue and other costs / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Books
Book recommendations from Hopkins scholars and experts
Published Dec 15, 2022
We asked faculty members, library staff, and many others about the best books they read in 2022. This is what they told us.
Kweisi Mfume
Changemakers
Kweisi Mfume continues to push for progress
Published Dec 7, 2022
Mfume, a Baltimore native who received a master's degree from JHU in 1984, returned to Congress in 2020 to represent Maryland 7th District
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Public health
Life expectancy is declining in the U.S. It doesn't have to be.
Published Dec 6, 2022
A new report authored by experts from the Bloomberg School of Public Health identify solutions to pressing public health concerns that are causing the average American life expectancy to fall
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Q+A
Oregon's new laws and the future of U.S. gun policy
Published Nov 28, 2022
A midterm ballot initiative requires permits to purchase guns and limits magazine capacity, charting a course for other states to put gun control in the hands of voters, says Hopkins expert Cass Crifasi
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Elections
What we learned from the midterms
Published Nov 11, 2022
Scholars from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins convened to discuss the influence of factors such as 'Dobbs,' the war in Ukraine, and the specter of the 2024 presidential race on this year's midterm elections