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.
A Johns Hopkins University team that includes biomedical engineering faculty and graduate students, global health experts and technology specialists will receive a $100,000 grant to support their plan to enable mothers in remote villages to use novel, low-cost sensors and a simple cell phone app to spot serious health problems during their newborn babies’ critical first week. The university’s NeMo team, short for Neonatal Monitoring, was named as one of 51 new Grand Challenges Explorations winners in an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
November 15, 2017 Tags: bioengineering, biomedical engineering, global health projects, medical sensors, neonatal monitoring, newborn health
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News, Technology
Conditions in crowded, urban settlements in Africa make worse the effects of climate change, pushing temperatures to dangerous heights for children and the elderly in those areas, according to a new study led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist.
November 6, 2017 Tags: climate change, informal settlement, Kibera, micro-climates, Nairobi
| Category: Earth Science, Environment, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Uncategorized
A Johns Hopkins University scientist is part of a team working on a method to predict malaria outbreaks months in advance, potentially giving public health officials a chance to protect people from a disease that poses a risk to nearly half the world’s population and kills hundreds of thousands a year.
October 23, 2017 Tags: dengue, malaria, mosquito-borne disease, NASA satellites, Zika
| Category: Earth Science, Public Health, Technology, Uncategorized
These news tips, from stories in the fall 2017 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine, include an engineer/fisherman’s idea for a “smart” lure and the need for a really high SPF sunscreen for a new solar probe.
September 21, 2017 Tags: health and medicine news tips, science news tips
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Physics and Astronomy, Public Health
This is an additional list of experts from the Johns Hopkins University on issues associated with Hurricane Harvey and now Hurricane Irma
September 8, 2017 Tags: Disaster, experts, hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Environment, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
This is a third list of experts from the Johns Hopkins University on issues associated with the onslaught and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
August 30, 2017 Tags: Disaster, experts, hurricane, Hurricane Harvey
| Category: Business and Economics, Earth Science, Education/K-12, Engineering, Environment, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
This is a second list of experts from the Johns Hopkins University on issues associated with the onslaught and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
August 29, 2017 Tags: Disaster, experts, hurricane, Hurricane Harvey
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Engineering, Environment, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
A list of experts from the Johns Hopkins University on various issues associated with the formation, onslaught and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. This list will be updated as warranted.
August 28, 2017 Tags: Disaster, experts, hurricane, Hurricane Harvey
| Category: Business and Economics, Earth Science, Education/K-12, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Ellen J. MacKenzie, an expert on improving trauma care systems and policy and a nationally renowned researcher, veteran academic leader, and Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1979, will be the 11th dean of the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
August 4, 2017 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ellen MacKenzie, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University Administration, University-Related
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has committed $150 million to Johns Hopkins University to forge new ways to address the deterioration of civic engagement worldwide.
June 22, 2017 Tags: Agora Institute, Beverly Wendland, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences
Early career scientists, physicians, engineers and specialists in public health, nursing, music and marketing from Johns Hopkins University will gather on Capitol Hill in Washington to present their federally-funded research, emphasizing the importance of continuing federal support in the pursuit of new knowledge and innovation.
June 12, 2017 Tags: federal funding, Public Health, research, Technology
| Category: Computer Science, Earth Science, Engineering, Environment, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Public Health, Technology, Uncategorized
In very poor families, teenagers are going hungry twice as often as their younger siblings, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds.
February 13, 2017 Tags: extreme poverty, food insecurity, hunger, Johns Hopkins University, poverty, Robert A. Moffitt
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Living in subsidized housing seems to give a boost to children with high standardized test scores and few behavior problems, but it has the opposite effect on students who score poorly and have behavioral issues, a new study finds.
November 29, 2016 Tags: affordable housing, assisted housing, low-income families, Sandra J. Newman, standardized test scores, Subsidized housing
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Public Health, Public policy, Social Sciences
When researchers try to uncover the cause of disease, they commonly start with two questions: Did a quirk in the patient’s genes open the door to illness? Did exposure to environmental factors play havoc with the patient’s health? Very often, both troublemakers are at least partly to blame. To provide the most effective treatment, doctors need to know as much as possible about how these partners in sickness and poor health work together.
October 25, 2016 Tags: environmental health, epigenetics, genes, genome science, lead exposure, NIH grant
| Category: biology, Engineering, Environment, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Michael J. Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 2005, a 32-year member of the university community and a world expert on the epidemiology of major chronic diseases, will step down as dean next year and return to research and teaching.
October 6, 2016 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, dean, Michael Klag, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related
The following Johns Hopkins University experts, whose research focuses on such subjects as race, economic policy, inequality, gun violence, law enforcement and health care, are available for interviews during the presidential election season.
July 26, 2016 Tags: economics, Election experts, issues, Johns Hopkins University, politics, Presidential election, race
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Two Johns Hopkins mechanical engineering teams have developed improvements for a protective suit for health workers treating people stricken with Ebola and other infectious diseases, including prototypes for a more comfortable hood and face mask that make breathing easier, and for a battery-powered system that curbs humidity in the suit.
June 22, 2016 | Category: Engineering, Public Health, Technology, Uncategorized
Social media posters who share unfounded conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific claims about the Zika virus may undermine upcoming efforts to keep the disease from spreading, according to a study published online today by the journal Vaccine.
May 24, 2016 Tags: conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, social media, vaccination, vaccines, Zika virus
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
An interdisciplinary Johns Hopkins University team has developed a non-invasive 3-D virtual heart assessment tool to help doctors determine whether a particular patient faces the highest risk of a life-threatening arrhythmia and would benefit most from a defibrillator implant.
May 10, 2016 Tags: arrhythmia, computational cardiology, defibrillator, medical imaging, sudden cardiac death, virtual heart
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Mapping a city to detect Zika mosquito hotspots. Fashion accessories infused with a long-acting mosquito repellant. A special soap that keeps mosquitos away. Those are among the winning ideas from a Johns Hopkins University hackathon that drew participants from Baltimore to Brazil looking for ways to help prevent the spread of the Zika virus.
April 15, 2016 Tags: global health, hackathon, mosquito hotspots, mosquito repellant, Zika Design Challenge, Zika virus
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Health awareness days are ubiquitous. But does dedicating a day to a serious disease or to healthy living habits actually make a difference in the lives of people who hear about the occasion?A new study, published today in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions, used modern Big Data analyses to confirm that at least one annual health awareness day does indeed trigger behavior among many of the people who hear about it.
March 31, 2016 Tags: Big Data analysis, Great American Smokeout, Health Awareness Days, health-related searches, kick smoking, stop smoking help
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Public Health, Technology
A new interdisciplinary science team, led by experts from Yale and Johns Hopkins universities and funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will try to figure how power generation trends, climate change and public policy interact to affect air quality. A key goal is to trace how the resulting changes in air pollution may affect the health of people who live and work in the mid-Atlantic area.
March 2, 2016 Tags: air pollution, climate change, environmental engineering, power generation, Public Health, respiratory ailments
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Environment, Government and Politics, Public Health, Technology
A Johns Hopkins computer scientist played a key role in a new study that analyzed online news and search engine records to gauge the public’s response to actor Charlie Sheen’s Nov. 17, 2015, disclosure on NBC’s TODAY Show that he was HIV-positive.
February 22, 2016 Tags: "Charlie Sheen Effect", Charlie Sheen, computer science, HIV infection, HIV prevention, web search research
| Category: Engineering, Public Health, Technology
A public health biologist who is trying to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and pave the way to new treatments for genetic diseases has received the 2016 President’s Frontier Award, a Johns Hopkins University honor that provides $250,000 in research funding. The program was launched last year as part of an expanded university effort to provide more funding to help its faculty move forward with innovative research projects. This year’s recipient is Scott Bailey, an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, within the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
February 2, 2016 Tags: antibiotic resistance, biochemistry, genetic diseases, molecular biology, President's Frontier Award, Public Health
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Public Health
In a study recently published in the journal Real Estate Economics, public policy professor Sandra J. Newman and researcher C. Scott Holupka found that race was a key determinate of which low and moderate-income people who bought first homes during the decade made money. During the Great Recession, white homebuyers lost money but black ones lost considerably more. Even during the boom years, when white buyers increased their wealth by 50 percent, black buyers lost 47 percent of their wealth.
October 7, 2015 Tags: C. Scott Holupka, Great Recession, homeownership, Housing boom, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, race, real estate, Sandra J. Newman
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
