Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
The debate over American health care didn’t end with the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Now that the law is in place and its provisions are slowly becoming reality, the discussion has shifted to questions regarding whether the benefits are worth the costs, and whether we will actually be a healthier nation once every citizen has health insurance. Johns Hopkins University health economist Douglas E. Hough hopes his new book, which looks at the state of American health care through the lens of behavioral economics, will be helpful in framing this new wave of discourse in a more productive way.
May 8, 2013 Tags: Affordable Care Act, behavioral economics, health care, health care debate, health care economics
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Public policy
A summit of more than 20 of the world’s leading gun policy experts has identified research-based policies to reduce gun violence in the United States. The policy recommendations were the result of a two-day Summit on gun violence convened by The Johns Hopkins University on January 14 and 15, The Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis.
January 15, 2013 Tags: firearms, gun policy, guns, jhugunpolicy
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins-sponsored Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America concludes today [Tuesday, Jan. 14] and is available by webcast for reporters wishing to cover it remotely.
January 15, 2013 Tags: Adam Winkler, Colleen Barry, firearms, gun policy, guns, jhugunpolicy, Philip Alpers
| Category: Government and Politics, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins-sponsored Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America convenes today [Monday, Jan. 14] and is available by webcast today and tomorrow for reporters wishing to cover it remotely.
January 14, 2013 Tags: Christopher Koper, Daniel Webster, firearms, gun policy, guns, Jeffrey Swanson, jhugunpolicy, Martin O'Malley, Michael R. Bloomberg, Stephen Teret
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 24 released a statement on its motion for summary judgment in litigation pending in Montgomery County, Md., Circuit Court regarding development of the Johns Hopkins Belward Research Campus.
September 24, 2012 Tags: Belward Research Campus, Montgomery County
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University-Related
President Ronald J. Daniels and more than 75 other research university leaders are asking the federal government to provide top international graduates a clear path to green cards so they can make discoveries, invent technologies and create jobs in the United States.
June 29, 2012 Tags: green card, H-1B visa, immigration, Ronald Daniels, Ronald J. Daniels, STEM, students, visa
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, Student-Related News, University Administration
