As of mid-December, flu, COVID, and RSV activity are relatively low throughout most of the U.S., but rates of all three are climbing just as many Americans travel and gather for the holidays. And, for ...

Susan Anenberg is a professor and chair of the Environmental and Occupational Health Department at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She is also the director ...

About the Program This year-long cohort program offers sponsored mentorship and select coursework through the Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity (CGWHGE) at the Johns Hopkins ...

Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD ’06, MPH, is the 12th dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Just a generation or so ago, tens of thousands of people in the U.S.—mainly children—were afflicted by paralytic poliovirus. In 1955, an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which contained a “killed” ...

A new study published in December in JAMIA Open and led by Department of Health Policy and Management researchers including Elham Hatef, MD, MPH, and Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH, aims to address ...

* The data presented in the maps are compiled from official sources, including state and county health departments and additional county-level news releases or news articles, and represent ...

Cigarette smoking hit a historic low in 2023, with the adult smoking rate falling to 11%, according to the CDC. In response to the steady decline of smokers over the years, tobacco companies have ...

Shortcomings in the Baltimore region’s public transit system disproportionately affect low-income and minority neighborhoods, according to a new report from the Department of Environmental Health and ...

When patients don’t feel heard by their doctors, there’s an erosion of trust that can lead to serious health consequences—even if clinicians have their patients’ best interests in mind. As a patient, ...

Since the 1970s, methadone has been used to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) with great success—reducing the likelihood of dying from an opioid overdose by 50% or more. Yet for patients and prescribers ...

Editor’s note: This article was updated on September 13, 2024, to remove references to the 2023–24 COVID vaccines and align with the latest COVID vaccination recommendations from the CDC. For the ...