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
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
August 12, 2020 CONTACT: Doug Donovan Cell: 443-462-2947 dougdonovan@jhu.edu @dougdonovan A new robotic system allows medical staff to remotely operate ventilators and other bedside machines from outside intensive care rooms of patients suffering from infectious diseases. The system, developed by a team of Johns Hopkins University and Medicine researchers, is still being tested, but initial […]
August 12, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Computer Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering, medical robotics
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
With cases of COVID-19 on the rise in Baltimore and new state mandates for mask use, it’s more critical than ever that people living in the city have access to masks. To help get city residents the protection they need, this week Johns Hopkins University and Medicine will partner with The Door and The Mix Churches to distribute 85,000 reusable masks to more than 50 community groups, neighborhood associations and faith-based institutions.
August 12, 2020 Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, masks
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Public health experts predict the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will include the mass evictions of as many as one million people who rent their homes.
The implications of that people potentially becoming homeless, with cities already struggling to contain the spread of the virus, could be devastating, says Johns Hopkins University sociologist Meredith Greif, who an expert in homelessness and housing insecurity.
July 20, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, evictions, homelessness, Johns Hopkins University, Meredith Greif, unemployment
| Category: Uncategorized
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
The Johns Hopkins University professor behind the popular COVID-19 tracking map is joining scientists at two other institutions to develop new methods for understanding how and why the current coronavirus and future pandemics spread.
June 11, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lauren Gardner, National Institutes of Health, NIH grant
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
COVID-19 has affected people differently, yet many feel the pandemic has radically affected their sense of time. For some, time drags. For others it passes much too fast. And almost everyone is having trouble remembering what day it is. Ian Phillips, a Johns Hopkins University professor who studies how humans experience time, is available to discuss what’s causing this common but very disconcerting experience.
June 1, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, Ian Phillips, Johns Hopkins University, sense of time
| Category: Psychology, Social Sciences
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
The Johns Hopkins University has launched the East Baltimore COVID-19 Food Access Initiative, a partnership between JHU, Saval Foodservice, Hungry Harvest, and 16 faith based and community organizations to provide emergency food assistance to families impacted by COVID-19.
April 24, 2020 Tags: community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Food Access Initiative
| Category: University-Related
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 response to a pressing need for more ventilators to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients, a team led by Johns Hopkins University engineers is developing and prototyping a 3D-printed splitter that will allow a single ventilator to treat multiple patients. Though medical professionals have expressed concerns about the safety and effectiveness of sharing ventilators, the team has designed this tool to address those concerns.
April 2, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, ventilators, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
More than 2,000 people from 34 countries will compete in a five-day virtual design challenge to find innovative solutions to challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams will try to engineer solutions for problems ranging from how to protect front-line healthcare workers and their families to minimizing transmission of the virus to addressing shortages of critical healthcare and medical equipment to ensuring that people have accurate information to help them make informed decisions.
March 26, 2020 Tags: CBID, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, COVID-19, design challenge, Johns Hopkins University, Pandemic
| Category: Engineering
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 has learned about the existence of malware designed to look like the university’s coronavirus tracking map in an effort to steal information from users who visit the fake site.
March 17, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19
| Category: Engineering, Technology, University-Related
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
