Dr. Gupta is the Florence Sabin Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and she holds a joint appointment in the ...

The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. After the Civil War, which increased concern about the effects of unsanitary ...

In conjunction with the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation and with the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) ...

Following decades of development, the United States’ first mRNA vaccines hit the market in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, saving millions of lives and allowing the nation to adeptly ...

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The Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions brings together the health research and program development resources of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes to demonstrate the efficacy of public ...

In May, the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., announced the latest recipients of its Nexus Awards—a $15 million initiative launched in 2023 to support research, teaching, ...

The fluoride in our water has passively protected the oral health of Americans for decades by reducing cavities, tooth decay, and dental health disparities. So much so, that the CDC has declared ...

In 2022, 48,204 people died due to gun violence in the U.S., the second highest total ever recorded. Each day, an average of 132 people died from gun violence—one death every 11 minutes. The overall ...

Who is Impacted by Community Violence? Black Americans were nearly 14 times as likely to be murdered by firearm as their white counterparts in 2021. Young Black males ages 15-34 made up 2% of the U.S.

COVID-19 uncovered catastrophic weaknesses in the international community’s ability to respond to a pandemic, from inequities in vaccine and test distribution to insufficient international ...

Fall and winter are known as the time when respiratory viruses surge. When COVID emerged in 2020, it joined flu and RSV as one of the common respiratory viruses that peaks during the colder months.