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.
Violence against hospitals, patients, doctors, and other health workers such as those now taking place during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, destroy lives and the capacity of health systems to tend to those in need, combatant and civilian alike, according to Johns Hopkins University human rights expert Leonard Rubenstein, author of the recently published Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War.
March 2, 2022 Tags: Berman Institute of Bioethics, hospitals, Johns Hopkins University, Leonard Rubenstein, Russia, Ukraine
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University has established the Center for Economy and Society through $10 million in funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network. At SNF Agora, the new center will strive to bring together thinkers on the political left and right to address the perils facing market democracies.
February 16, 2022 Tags: Center for Economy and Society, Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, Steven Teles
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, University-Related
President Biden recently ordered that businesses with more than 100 employees require workers to get a COVID-19 shot or test negative for the virus at least once a week, joining many other workplaces nationwide that already initiated such requirements. A Johns Hopkins University expert in business law, health law, and negotiation is available to offer context and commentary about vaccination mandates.
September 20, 2021 Tags: COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, Stacey Lee, vaccination, vaccine mandate, vaccines
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health
Baltimore students who received eyeglasses through the Vision for Baltimore program scored higher on reading and math tests, with students who struggle the most academically showing the greatest improvement, concludes a new study in JAMA Ophthalmology, conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers from the Wilmer Eye Institute and School of Education.
The study, released today, is the most robust to date in the United States on the impact of glasses on academic achievement and has implications beyond Baltimore for the millions of children nationwide who suffer from vision impairment but lack access to pediatric eye care.
September 9, 2021 Tags: achievement gap, eyeglasses, Johns Hopkins, K-12 Education, students, Vision for Baltimore
| Category: Education/K-12, Government and Politics, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related
Students who received eyeglasses through a school-based program scored higher on reading and math tests, Johns Hopkins researchers from the Wilmer Eye Institute and School of Education found in the largest clinical study of the impact of glasses on education ever conducted in the United States. The students who struggled the most academically showed the greatest improvement.
September 9, 2021 Tags: achievement gap, glasses, Johns Hopkins, K-12 Education, test scores, vision, Vision for Baltimore
| Category: Education/K-12, Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center today published a new graphic visualization and analysis detailing the troubling trend of U.S. states eliminating daily reporting of COVID-19 data.
According to Coronavirus Resource Center experts, the reduction in daily reporting on cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and other vital data is taking place at a time when more public data is needed, not less — as the highly transmissible Delta variant is driving a new surge in the pandemic.
August 17, 2021 Tags: Beth Blauer, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, dashboard, data reporting, Jennifer Nuzzo, Johns Hopkins University, Lauren Gardner, Pandemic Data Initiative
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Technology
As world leaders protest the Belarusian government’s brazen interception of a plane carrying a dissident journalist, Johns Hopkins University senior fellow Anne Applebaum can describe the political situation in Belarus, and how the incident fits into a pattern of increasing authoritarianism in countries across the globe.
May 25, 2021 Tags: Alexander Lukashenko, authoritarian governments, Belarus, dissident journalists, Johns Hopkins University, political dissidents, Roman Protasevich
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Uncategorized
With COVID-19 cases and deaths surging in India, a Johns Hopkins University expert is available to offer context and perspective on the crisis. Michael Levien: A sociologist specializing in India, Levien can discuss what he considers the Indian government’s mishandling of the crisis, as well as the background developmental conditions that are exacerbating the problem.
May 4, 2021 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, India, Johns Hopkins, Michael Levien
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Social Sciences
As part of his American Families Plan President Biden is expected today to call for free preschool for all three and four-year-old children. Johns Hopkins University experts who specialize in early education, including some who helped advise Biden’s plan, are available to offer context, commentary and perspective.
April 28, 2021 Tags: Biden, Chris Swanson, Education, Lieny Jeon, Linda Carling, preschool
| Category: Education/K-12, Government and Politics
As a jury in Minneapolis begins to deliberate in the trial of white police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with the murder in May death of George Floyd, who is black, a Johns Hopkins University expert in racial inequality, particularly in the realm of policing, is available to offer perspective.
April 20, 2021 Tags: Black Lives Matter, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Johns Hopkins, Police, policing, Vesla Weaver
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Social Sciences
A new Johns Hopkins data tool helps people with disabilities determine when they qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine and compares how different states prioritize the disability community in the vaccine rollout.
Created by researchers, students and advocates who themselves are disabled and have personally experienced how inequitable and inaccessible the pandemic response has been, the COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Dashboard launched to not only help the disability community get vaccinated, but also to arm policymakers with data to improve the system.
February 16, 2021 Tags: Bonnielin Swenor, COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Dashboard, disabilities, Disability Health Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, vaccine
| Category: Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Faster commuter trains between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. could have a profound economic impact on Maryland’s largest city by attracting an influx of District residents that could spur more neighborhood redevelopment and by giving Charm City residents easier access to higher paying jobs in the nation’s capital.
February 3, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, commuter train, development, economy, high-speed rail
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public policy, Social Sciences
The lack of reliable access to broadband internet service for many in Baltimore, particularly the poor, has profound economic and social consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this painfully clear with an abrupt shift to online learning, remote work, and telemedicine. A new analysis from Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative says the city could move towards digital equity, with a roadmap of recommendations built on existing knowledge of Baltimore’s digital assets and the experience of other cities.
January 25, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, broadband, COVID-19, digital equity, Internet, Johns Hopkins University, Mac McComas, Mary Miller, Pandemic
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, Technology
The Cyber Attack Predictive Index (CAPI) provides a predictive analysis of nations most likely to engage in the surreptitious strategy waged with keyboards, code and destructive malware rather than soldiers, tanks and airplanes.
October 14, 2020 Tags: Anton Dahbura, cyber attacks, cyber security, cybersecurity, Department of Computer Science, Stuxnet, U.S. Cyber Command
| Category: Computer Science, Government and Politics, International Affairs
Unforeseen circumstances force low-income families to quickly move from one home to the next, a process that helps to perpetuate racial and economic segregation in the United States, research shows.
October 8, 2020 Tags: affordable housing, Department of Sociology, housing, poverty, public housing, sociology
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Anti-vaccination discourse on Facebook increased in volume over the last decade, with opposition to vaccines coalescing around the argument that refusing to vaccinate is a civil right, according to a new study published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
October 1, 2020 Tags: Anti-Vaxxers, COVID-19, Department of Computer Science, Facebook, Mark Dredze, vaccination, vaccines
| Category: Computer Science, Government and Politics, Public Health
A new book released Aug. 11 by Johns Hopkins University political scientist Robert Lieberman and Suzanne Mettler of Cornell University explores the frightening fragility of American democracy when faced with historical challenges reminiscent of today’s political rancor and division.
August 11, 2020 Tags: American Democracy Collaborative, Donald Trump, economic inequality, inequality, Nativism, Polarization, Political Polarization, racism, Voter Suppression
| Category: Government and Politics
Residents in all 25 of the U.S. counties hardest hit by COVID-19 began to limit their public movements six to 29 days before states implemented stay-at-home orders, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.
July 1, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lauren Gardner
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
A group of political science scholars is launching a webinar series on Friday to highlight escalating threats to democracy that have been percolating for decades and boiling over ever since Donald Trump’s election.
June 24, 2020 Tags: 2020 Elections, American Democracy Collaborative, Black Lives Matter, Cornell University, Donald Trump, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Smart homes of today – with lights, refrigerators and Alexa all talking to each other – aren’t nearly as smart as they need to be to thwart virtual burglars from breaking in. To address the massive security threat to interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT), Johns Hopkins University and six other institutions are embarking on an effort to fortify vulnerable points of entry against hackers.
June 12, 2020 Tags: computer science, cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Smart Homes
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Government and Politics
The economic ideas that dominate global climate policy have undergone a “major transformation” over the past three decades from strictly market-based notions to recent diversified approaches featuring more government intervention, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change by a Johns Hopkins University political scientist.
April 22, 2020 Tags: climate change, global climate change, Nature
| Category: Environment, Government and Politics, International Affairs
Johns Hopkins University experts in public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness will offer a briefing this Friday for Capitol Hill officials seeking facts and perspective on COVID-19 and the new coronavirus as it spreads worldwide.
March 5, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Hopkins on the Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Lauren Gardner, Tom Inglesby
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Two political science professors are available to discuss the Democratic primary contest as voters in 14 Super Tuesday states cast ballots that could either settle which candidate emerges as the favorite to win the nomination or signal a protracted party battle.
March 3, 2020 Tags: Election experts, Political Science, Super Tuesday
| Category: Government and Politics
Scientists developing a rapid system for tackling outbreaks of avian influenza at their origins in Thailand are available to discuss their project and how it could potentially help improve responses to other pandemic threats such as coronavirus.
February 12, 2020 Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, Coronavirus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Pandemic, SARS, World Health Organization
| Category: biology, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Uncategorized
A sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University is available to discuss whether China’s hardened domestic authoritarianism and expanded global influence since the 2003 SARS outbreak is helping or hindering the international response to the new coronavirus.
January 27, 2020 Tags: China, Coronavirus
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Social Sciences
