The American Public Health Association has recognized two Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty for their ...

Small proof-of-principle study using samples from Baltimore sidewalks suggests fungi developing heat tolerance in city ...

More than 800,000 lives have been lost to firearms in the United States since the start of the 21st century. It is an ongoing public health crisis that affects individuals, families, and communities ...

Welcome to the Welch Center, where our interdisciplinary faculty and trainees collaborate on groundbreaking epidemiologic, clinical, and translational research related to preventing and controlling ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is the United States’ largest anti-hunger program and helps an average of 41.7 million Americans per month.

The U.S. is experiencing its sharpest decline in life expectancy in more than a century—since the eras of World War I and the Great Influenza. What happened? Until 2014 life expectancy at birth in the ...

Receiving a diagnosis of a chronic illness can be life-altering. Along with the day-to-day physical symptoms of the illness, emotions such as sadness, grief, and denial, as well as an added financial ...

* 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 ...

According to a recent Lancet commentary much of the healthcare industry’s reliance on disposable materials is born out of fear and efficiency, with minimal evidence to support the superiority of some ...

Warmer weather has arrived across much of the U.S., and that means more hikes, outdoor fun—and concerns about ticks. The annual number of tickborne disease cases has more than doubled in the U.S. in ...

In September 2021, Texas passed Senate Bill 8, or SB8, which banned abortions as early as five weeks after the start of a patient’s last menstrual cycle. The measure effectively banned abortion in the ...

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 ...