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 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
The Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center on May 17 is launching the Pandemic Data Initiative as a new resource to spotlight systemic deficiencies in the collecting and reporting of pandemic data, to examine how those challenges hinder COVID-19 responses, and to explore possible solutions to improve public data.
May 17, 2021 Tags: Beth Blauer, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, data, Johns Hopkins University, Lauren Gardner, Pandemic, Pandemic Data Initiative
| Category: Public Health, Technology, University-Related
The Centers for Civic Impact, an effort to help public organizations thoughtfully and masterfully use data and research to better understand and improve public life, has launched at Johns Hopkins University.
April 29, 2019 Tags: Beth Blauer, Center for Applied Public Research, Center for Government Excellence, Centers for Civic Impact, GovEx, GovEx Academy
| Category: Government and Politics, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Three-term New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has committed funds to launch a Johns Hopkins University effort helping cities use data to run more effective operations and fix urban problems.
April 20, 2015 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Beth Blauer, Center for Government Excellence, Kathryn Edin, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels, Sharon Paley
| Category: Giving, Government and Politics, University-Related
