Meet the Hosts. Joshua Sharfstein, MD, vice dean for public health practice and community engagement, a faculty member in health policy, pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland’s Health ...

The MPH program focuses on current global health problems and uses multidisciplinary, evidence-based approaches to prepare students to become leaders in the public health field.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205 ...

Each day more than 120 Americans die by firearms. 3 These deaths are preventable. A comprehensive public health approach is needed to address the gun violence epidemic. This approach brings together a ...

The Master of Health Administration (MHA) program is uniquely designed for future health care executives early in their careers. The two-year accelerated curriculum includes one year of full-time ...

The part-time DrPH program prepares early- to mid-career public health professionals for leadership roles in public health policy and practice positions as well as in health services delivery settings ...

These neighborhoods suffer from underfunded social services, few economic opportunities, and concentrated poverty. 7 Often public attention focuses on cities with high homicide rates, with little ...

As of November 2024, over 70 million Americans were enrolled in Medicaid, the government health insurance program that offers free or low-cost health care to adults and families with limited income, ...

In February 2022, Keshia M. Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH, an expert in advancing health equity and policy change that promotes safe and healthy environments, became chair of the Department of Health ...

Protecting Health, Saving Lives—Millions at a Time. The Johns Hopkins Center for Suicide Prevention, the first and only Center for Suicide Prevention at a school of public health, is engaged in ...

As a basic research department within the #1 public health school, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thrives at a unique intersection of basic science, medicine, and public health.

The hygiene hypothesis is the idea that kids need to be exposed to germs in order to develop healthy immune systems. We know that many common viruses did not circulate as widely during the pandemic, ...