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.
Vijayasundaram Ramasamy, a public health studies major who graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2018 and led the team drafting the state of Kansas’ COVID-19 reopening plan, has been named a Rhodes Scholar, one of the top awards available to American college students.
November 22, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, Public Health, Rhodes Scholar, Vijayasundaram Ramasamy
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Student-Related News, University-Related
TIME named the Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center, a website that has helped the world better understand and track the COVID-19 pandemic, to its list of 2020 Best Inventions, calling it “2020’s Go-To Data Source.”
November 19, 2020 Tags: 2020 Best Inventions, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, TIME
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University-Related
With the pandemic surging to record levels in the United States, Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center will launch bi-weekly webcast briefings featuring updates and insights from the university’s top COVID-19 experts beginning this Friday, November 20.
November 18, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, experts, Johns Hopkins 30-Minute COVID-19 Briefing, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center has launched a new tool on its U.S. state tracking pages that provides county-level insight into the effects of COVID-19 through case and testing data measured against key demographic information, including race and poverty level. The Coronavirus Resource Center is the first to publish such a compilation of at the county level.
November 16, 2020 Tags: cases, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, data, Johns Hopkins University, testing, tool
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University-Related
A virtual fireside chat with Anthony Fauci will launch the Johns Hopkins University’s Health Policy Forum, a new quarterly series of discussions providing a platform for JHU students, faculty, staff, and alumni to engage in dialogues with Washington leaders around interdisciplinary health policy issues.
October 12, 2020 Tags: Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Ellen MacKenzie, Fauci, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University’s Health Policy Forum, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, Public policy, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
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
Baltimore’s hospitals and the city health department are working together over the next two weeks to ask city residents to detail their most urgent health needs through an online survey, including how they have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 25, 2020 Tags: Affordable Care Act, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Obamacare
| Category: Events Open to the Public, JHU Community Connections, Public Health, University-Related
TIME named a Johns Hopkins University professor to its 2020 list of the 100 most influential people in the world for developing a free and open website that empowers the international community to track the COVID-19 pandemic in near-real time with reliable, independent data.
September 22, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, CSSE, Lauren Gardner, The Whiting School of Engineering, TIME 100
| Category: Engineering, Public Health, Technology
Ben Zaitchik, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Johns Hopkins University, is available to speak with the media about the vigorous research still needed to definitively determine if and how climate, environmental and meteorological elements influence the spread of COVID-19.
September 15, 2020 Tags: climate change, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, global climate change, NASA, World Meteorological Organization
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Earth Science, Environment, Public Health
Johns Hopkins University today released a comprehensive report to help government, technology developers, businesses, institutional leaders and the public make responsible decisions around use of digital contact tracing technology (DCTT), including smartphone apps and other tools, to fight COVID-19.
May 26, 2020 Tags: contact tracing, COVID-19, Jeffrey Kahn, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Public Health
Johns Hopkins researchers recently received a $195,000 Rapid Response Research grant from the National Science Foundation to, using machine learning, identify which COVID-19 patients are at risk of adverse cardiac events such as heart failure, sustained abnormal heartbeats, heart attacks, cardiogenic shock and death.
May 18, 2020 Tags: AI, Allison Hays, cardiology, machine learning, Natalia Trayanova, NSF, RAPID grant
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
By comparing Twitter data from before and after the COVID-19 outbreak, Johns Hopkins University researchers found a profound impact on the movement of Americans – indicating social distancing recommendations are having an effect.
April 6, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, flattening the curve, Johns Hopkins University, Mark Dredze, social distancing, social media, Twitter
| Category: Computer Science, Public Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a clinical trial Friday that will allow Johns Hopkins University researchers to test a therapy for COVID-19 that uses plasma from recovering patients.
April 3, 2020 Tags: Arturo Casadevall, convalescent plasma, COVID-19, FDA, Johns Hopkins University, plasma, prophylaxis, serum
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
In a new Science Robotics editorial published today, experts discuss the potential use of robots to combat COVID-19 by decreasing risks posed to humans, safely resuming halted manufacturing and making teleoperations more efficient. Much of the work required in combatting COVID-19 requires “dull, dirty, and extremely dangerous tasks for human workers but suitable to robots,” the editorial authors say, and they point to potential uses such as disinfecting operating rooms, taking temperatures at ports of entry, delivering medications and more.
Russell (Russ) Taylor, Director of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics at The Johns Hopkins University, and an author on the editorial, is available to talk about the future of robotics and COVID-19.
March 25, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Pandemic, robots, Russell Taylor
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
The Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracking map, which has become a vital worldwide resource, is launching an updated dashboard to report coronavirus cases for every city and county in the United States.
March 23, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, Lauren Gardner, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Public Health
A silver lining of social distancing and quarantine? Better air quality. As more and more cities across the U.S. clamp down on travel, there have been fewer cars on the road and early reports of improved air quality in cities like Los Angeles, Philadelphia and more. Peter DeCarlo, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, can discuss how and to what extent social distancing and quarantine measures affect air pollution.
March 20, 2020 Tags: air pollution, air quality, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Peter DeCarlo, Public Health, quarantine, social distancing
| Category: Engineering, Environment, Public Health
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
Researchers investigating the drug prescription response to a “superbug” enzyme that renders bacteria resistant to antibiotics are available to discuss why such resistance is posing a growing risk during pandemics such as the current coronavirus.
February 13, 2020 Tags: antibiotic resistance, Carey Business School, Coronavirus, COVID-19, India
| Category: International Affairs, Public Health
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
Today a panel of Johns Hopkins University experts convened to offer facts on the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), originating in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, a virus that is spreading across the globe and has been declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization and the U.S. government.
February 5, 2020 Tags: Caitlin Rivers, Coronavirus, Johns Hopkins University, Lauren Sauer, Tom Inglesby
| Category: Public Health
A sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University is available to discuss how the racist and xenophobic treatment of people of Chinese ancestry often escalates during outbreaks of disease such as the current coronavirus that began in China and is spreading worldwide.
February 3, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, Ho-Fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, racism
| Category: Computer Science, International Affairs, Psychology, 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
A co-director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering is available to discuss the center’s website, launched today to track the international spread of coronavirus in real time. The data visualizations are all available for download.
January 22, 2020 Tags: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus, World Health Organization
| Category: Engineering, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Uncategorized
Jan Dutkiewicz, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins and an expert in the alternative meat industry, can explain:
How the history of the Impossible Burger and other popular alternative meats can be traced to Thanksgiving.
Why despite the current plant-based meat craze, there is not yet a turkey option that’s created as much buzz.
How in the future Thanksgivings, with lab-grown meat soon to be available, people might be able to buy turkey created in a petri dish.
November 11, 2019 Tags: alternative meat, Beyond Burger, Impossible Burger, Jan Dutkiewicz, Johns Hopkins University, lab-grown meat, plant-based meat, Thanksgiving, tofurky
| Category: Business and Economics, Environment, Government and Politics, Public Health, Social Sciences
A new reusable device created by the Johns Hopkins University can help women with breast cancer in lower income countries by using carbon dioxide, a widely available and affordable gas, to power a cancer tissue-freezing probe instead of industry-standard argon.
July 15, 2019 Tags: biomedical engineering, cancer, Nicholas Durr, oncology, student research, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News
