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Q&A: Gun Violence in the United States

Q&A: Gun Violence in the United States

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2007 Golden Apple Award Winners

2007 JHSPH Golden Apple Award Winners

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Unraveling the Genes of the Yellow Fever Mosquito Genome

Unraveling the Genes of the Yellow Fever Mosquito Genome

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DiPietro Named Associate Dean of Research

DiPietro Named Associate Dean of Research

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Q&A: Health Informatics

What exactly is health informatics? A Q& A with Scott Zeger, chair of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Committee on Health Informatics.

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Q&A: Vision 2020 Gender Equity at Johns Hopkins

Universities and colleges across the country are making headway in their efforts to address the career obstacles faced by female faculty, staff and students. To learn more about this issue at Johns...

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Excess Black Preterm Births Account for Majority of Infant Mortality Gap

The excess rate of extreme preterm birth among black infants in the United States accounts for more than half of the infant mortality gap between blacks and whites, according to researchers from the...

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Samet Honored by PAHO for Contributions to Smoke-Free Environments

Samet Honored by PAHO for Contributions to Smoke-Free Environments

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Cooley Named to NIH Child Psychopathology Study Section

Michele R. Cooley, PhD, MEd, an associate professor in the JHSPH Department of Mental Health, has been appointed to a four-year term as a member of the Child Psychopathology and Developmental...

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Bloomberg School Student Named Luce Scholar

Wen-Chih Yu, a master of public health/master of business administration student in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of International Health, was named a 2007–2008 Luce...

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Grassroots Efforts Reduce Newborn Deaths in Northern India

Grassroots Efforts Reduce Newborn Deaths in Northern India

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Interview: Lead in Toys Poses Health Risk

Interview: Lead in Toys Poses Health Risk

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UC Berkeley-Johns Hopkins report aults Burma’s military junta for...

UC Berkeley-Johns Hopkins report aults Burma’s military junta for proliferation of infectious diseases

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De Beers African Health Scholars Named

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has named the 2007–2008 De Beers African Health Scholars. The program aims to strengthen Africa’s public health infrastructure by training African...

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2007 Postdoctoral Poster Competition

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George Comstock 1915-2007

George Comstock 1915-2007

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Training Institute to Address Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples

Training Institute to Address Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples

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Global Tobacco Control Program

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Fulbright Scholars 2007

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Targeting Mosquito Antigens Can Block Malaria Transmission

Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute scientists have taken one step closer to a universal malaria transmission-blocking vaccine by creating a new technique for preventing the development of malaria...

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Little Evidence to Support More U.S. and U.K. Doctors

In a new analysis of the American physician workforce Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, reports that increasing the number of medical students is not the answer to the projected shortage of doctors.

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New Associate Dean for Development and External Relations

New Associate Dean for Development and External Relations

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New Associate Dean for Research Administration

New Associate Dean for Research Administration

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Bloomberg School Receives Seven Year Accreditation

Bloomberg School Receives Seven Year Accreditation

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Nanotechnology and Public Health: Interview with Jonathan Links

Nanotechnology and Public Health: Interview with Jonathan Links

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Computer Maintenance Notice

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Free Evidence-Based Health Care Course Offered by Johns Hopkins

The U.S. Cochrane Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has launched a new online course on evidence-based health care.

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Bloomberg School Recognized for Malaria Education

Bloomberg School Recognized for Malaria Education

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We Three Deans 2007

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Burney Lecturer: The Future of Urban Health

Burney Lecturer: The Future of Urban Health

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Bertrand Receives Marjorie C. Horn Operations Research Award

Bertrand Receives Marjorie C. Horn Operations Research Award

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Food and the Farm Bill

Homestead farmer and environmental activist Dan Imhoff discusses the Farm Bill and its effects on nutrition, public health, conservation and the environment.

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Memorial for George W. Comstock

Keep it short. Be kind. These instructions are just a few of the important lessons taken to heart by students, colleagues, friends and family of George Wills Comstock, whose life was celebrated at the...

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NBPHE exam

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NBPHE exam

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Hopkins Center Receives 2007 Injury Prevention and Control Health Impact Award

The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is among two organizations to receive the inaugural Injury Prevention and Control Health...

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Ambassador Urges Other Nations To Step Up AIDS Relief

Ambassador Mark Dybul speaks about the success and reauthorization of PEPFAR, November 2007.

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Burke Receives Inaugural ASPH Faculty Award for Excellence

Thomas Burke, PhD, MPH was awarded the inaugural 2007 Faculty Award for Excellence in Academic Public Health Practice from the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) and Pfizer Inc.’s Public...

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Drinking Water Symposium

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Jeffrey Sachs Invokes Moral Obligation to Indigenous Peoples

In a November 12 presentation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in honor of Native American Heritage Month, Jeffrey Sachs, director of the UN Millennium Project, spoke about the...

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Baltimore 2007 flu season

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Seminal HIV Study Marks 20th Anniversary

Celebrating two decades of research on HIV infection among injection drug users, the AIDS Linked to the IntraVenous Experience (ALIVE) study has become the longest-running investigation of its kind and...

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Ed Dodge: Remembering Africa

Dr. Edward Dodge's presentation, “Africa through the Years: Angola to Zimbabwe,” perspectives on his Angolan childhood home, on Ethiopia, and on Zimbabwe.

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Darfur Doctor at JHSPH

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Ecologist Argues for Progress over Profit

Money can’t buy happiness. Life satisfaction levels have held steady, despite an ever-increasing rise in gross domestic product (GDP). A better measure of human well-being, argues ecologist Robert...

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First Global Health Scholars Chosen

The first recipients of the Johns Hopkins Global Health Scholarships approach international public health from different vantage points.

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Urban Health Culprits: Renewal and Corporations

A long legacy of displacement...From the land grabs perpetrated against Native Americans, to the slave trade, to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, to the bulldozing of entire...

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Marie Charles Bloomberg Series

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Time Magazine 2007 Award Circumcision Study

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Jacobs-Lorena Named “Scientific American 50” for Transgenic Mosquito Research

Jacobs-Lorena Named “Scientific American 50” for Transgenic Mosquito Research

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