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Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Health equity
Nursing expert shines light on Latino HIV crisis at White House summit
Published Sept 26, 2024
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, executive director of the Institute for Policy Solutions, spoke at the ¡Adelante! Summit, which focused on ending HIV inequities in the Latino community
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Q+A
Why some schools are banning cell phones
Published Sept 23, 2024
Hopkins experts explain the research and weigh in on the controversial policies
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Election 2024
'There are young people that care about the issues on the ballot'
Published Sept 19, 2024
Hopkins students registered to vote and requested absentee ballots at Tuesday's National Voter Registration Day celebration, hosted by Hopkins Votes
Abandoned Baltimore rowhouses in a black and white photo
Opioid crisis
Overdose deaths disproportionately claim Baltimore's poorest, least educated
Published Sept 17, 2024
Johns Hopkins report surveys details of the sprawling reach of drug addiction epidemic
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Public health
Guns remain leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens
Published Sept 12, 2024
For the third straight year, firearms killed more young people than any other cause, including car crashes and cancer, and disproportionately affected people of color
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Politics
Dictators united
Published Fall 2024
In 'Autocracy, Inc.', Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Applebaum writes that dictators do not need to have the same backgrounds to accomplish the shared goal of undermining liberal democracy / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Joseph Sakran
His lane
Published Fall 2024
Trauma surgeon and gun violence survivor Joseph Sakran wants the nation's needless tragedies to end / Johns Hopkins Magazine
a collage that creates the american flag. the stripes consist of pieces of writing from the American Prison Writing Archive
Writing within prison walls
Published Fall 2024
Johns Hopkins houses the country's largest digital collection of writings by incarcerated people / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A large group of demonstrators gather in Venezuela
Q+A
Venezuela election fallout will worsen refugee crisis, Hopkins expert says
Published Sept 5, 2024
David Smolansky, dissident in residence at the SNF Agora Institute, discusses his home country's consequential election and the impact of Nicolas Maduro's oppressive rule
Kathryn Prather, age 18, stands in a 3D sign that reads
Election 2024
'Young people should be involved'
Published Sept 3, 2024
First-year engineering student Kathryn Prather, 18, was one of the youngest delegates at this year's Democratic National Convention in Chicago