Worldwide Challenges
Johns Hopkins University has always been on the forefront of global health, from the discovery of basic vitamins in the early 1900s to the HIV/AIDS breakthroughs of today. Despite our progress, problems in developing countries persist — emerging infectious diseases, escalating chronic diseases, social and political instability, health care inequities — and they urgently need effective solutions. History
The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health was founded in May of 2006 to lead the University in developing solutions to these health challenges. The Center pulls together Hopkins' extensive knowledge base to develop sustainable solutions that transcend the borders preventing good health throughout the world — borders between disciplines, languages, countries, governments, funding streams, drug availability, education, health care, and more. Hence, the Center's motto: Transcending borders for world health. To facilitate and focus the extensive expertise and resources of the Johns Hopkins institutions together with global collaborators to effectively address and ameliorate the world's most pressing health issues.  | "The Center is an unusual partnership that promotes collaboration throughout the University and uniquely positions Hopkins in the arena of global health. We coordinate and focus efforts against HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition, diarrheal diseases, emerging chronic diseases, and other worldwide health threats, especially in developing countries, with the ultimate goal of eliminating these health threats." - Thomas C. Quinn, MD, MSc
Director, Center for Global Health |
 | "The most effective way to strengthen our efforts is to find smart ways to combine and focus them to create teams of physicians, nurses, basic scientists, epidemiologists, entomologists, engineers — whoever is needed to attack a problem from all angles in a coordinated way. That's what the Center for Global Health will help us do." - William R. Brody, MD, PhD
Former President, Johns Hopkins University |
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