5/4/09 - Three Hopkins faculty members awarded Gates grants Two Medicine faculty members and one Public Health faculty member received $100,000 Grand Challenges grants from the Gates Foundation to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries.
4/22/09 - Alfred Sommer gives annual Dr. Leroy E. Burney Lecture Bloomberg School's Dean Emeritus Alfed Sommer offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the bulldog-like tenacity and powers of persuasion that he relied onto convince others of the mantle of legitimacy in the public health world.
3/24/09 - Past Framework award winner named Luce Scholar Britt Ehrhardt,a former recipient of a Center for Global Health Framework Program in Global Health award, has been named as one of 18 Luce Scholars by the Henry Luce Foundation.
3/16/09 - Nursing students spend spring break providing health care in Haiti Each spring, nursing students and Assistant Professor Elizabeth Sloand head to Haiti where students work alongside Haitian healthcare providers, sharing and learning different approaches to health and illness in a program that touches over 200,000 people in southwestern Haiti.
3/13/09 - Malaria immunity trigger found for multiple mosquito species Researchers at the Bloomberg School of Public Health have identified a molecular pathway that triggers an immune response in multiple mosquito species capable of stopping the development of the parasite that causes malaria in humans.
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