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New understanding of dengue virus points way to possible therapies for dengue fever
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: A team of researchers from Duke University, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and other institutions has identified cellular components in mosquitoes and in humans that dengue virus uses to multiply inside these hosts after infecting them. More >> April 22, 2009
It's Magic: Illusions in public health
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: As the featured speaker at the annual Dr. Leroy E. Burney Lecture on April 14, Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS’ 73, offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the bulldog-like tenacity and powers of persuasion that he relied on—and is still using in his current work—to convince medical journal editors, WHO officials and other gatekeepers of the mantle of legitimacy in the public health world. More >> April 20, 2009
Former NIH Director Elias Zerhouni rejoins Johns Hopkins Medicine as senior advisor
From the School of Medicine: Elias Zerhouni, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2002 to 2008 and former Johns Hopkins Medicine executive vice dean, returns to Hopkins May 1, 2009, as a senior advisor to Johns Hopkins Medicine. More >> April 16, 2009
Research!America leader is 2009 graduation speaker
From the School of Nursing: Mary Wooley, president of Research!America, has been selected as the graduation speaker at the 2009 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) Diploma and Awards Ceremony on May 21, 2009. More >> April 6, 2009
Assistant Professor travels to Uganda as part of African Health Initiative
From the School of Nursing: Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) assistant professor Sara Groves, DrPH, MPH, MS, RN, CS, is in Uganda to facilitate needs assessments and assist in teaching public health nursing at the Makerere University (MU) Department of Nursing. More >> March 26, 2009
New approach to study research ethics proposed
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Low- and middle-income countries face complex challenges associated with the ethical conduct of scientific research and the protection of research participants, according to researcher Adnan Hyder's article in The Lancet. More >> March 25, 2009
Male circumcision reduces risk of genital herpes and HPV infection, but not syphilis
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health and NIAID: Heterosexual men who undergo medical circumcision can significantly reduce their risk of acquiring genital herpes and HPV infection, according to a study by Bloomberg School researchers. More >> March 24, 2009
Bloomberg student named Luce Scholar
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: 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. Ehrhardt will travel to Asia to live and work as part of the Luce Scholarship Program, designed to increase cross-cultural awareness for young American leaders. More >> March 16, 2009
Nursing students spend spring break providing health care to the impoverished in Haiti
From the School of Nursing: 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. More >> March 16, 2009
Johns Hopkins Medicine International launches new cardiac surgery collaboration in Italy
From the School of Medicine: This collaboration with San Matteo Hospital is the first cardiac surgery project of its kind for Johns Hopkins Medicine International in Europe. Cardiac surgeons, perfusionists, nurses and anesthesiologists from Johns Hopkins will share their expertise and conduct up to 20 surgeries per year with their colleagues at San Matteo Hospital. More >> March 13, 2009
Malaria immunity trigger found for multiple mosquito species
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Researchers have for the first time identified a molecular pathway that triggers an immune response in multiple mosquito species capable of stopping the development of Plasmodium falciparum—the parasite that causes malaria in humans. More >>
March 10, 2009
Secretary Clinton visits community-led program in Indonesia
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with staff and volunteers of the Aman Tirta (Safe Water) project on February 19 during a recent trip to Jakarta, Indonesia. The Aman Tirta project aims to improve access to safe drinking water quality through the use of Air RahMat, a chlorine-based solution used to purify water. More >>
March 3, 2009
Joint Commission International accredits Johns Hopkins-affiliated Clemenceau Medical Center in Lebanon
From Johns Hopkins Medical International: The Clemenceau Medical Center (CMC) in Beirut, Lebanon, has been awarded the official accreditation of the Joint Commission International. Johns Hopkins Medicine International prepared CMC for the accreditation review, conducting assessments and mock surveys on the ground and by videoconference. Johns Hopkins experts also provided rigorous training for the CMC staff in quality, safety, infection control, leadership, nursing and human resource management, according to Hopkins officials. More >> February 25, 2009
Johns Hopkins safety team works to eliminate bloodstream infections in the nation and the world
From Johns Hopkins Medical International: A widely heralded Johns Hopkins safety initiative to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units (ICUs) was implemented in 30 states starting Feb. 1 and could save an estimated $3 billion dollars and 30,000 lives annually. In addition, the program has been launched in Spain and will begin in the United Kingdom starting in April. Pilot programs are also under discussion with health care leaders in Peru and Chile. More >> February 20, 2009
CDC highlights Hopkins-led intervention trial in updated compendium
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2008 Compendium of Evidenced-based HIV Prevention Interventions will include the work of Elizabeth T. Golub, PhD, MPH. Chosen as one of 36 best evidence-based HIV behavioral interventions, Golub’s Study to Reduce Intravenous Exposures (STRIVE) was designed to eliminate or reduce risky injection practices and the spread of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among HIV-negative injection drug users with HCV. More >>
February 19, 2009
New initiative to tackle leading killer of children
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: The Bloomberg School has received three grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation totaling more than $43 million to be used to help understand the causes of pneumonia, which go unidentified in up to one third of patients. More >>
February 16, 2009
Global Tobacco Control Training Course now available in Chinese
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: As part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the Institue for Global Tobacco Control at the Bloomberg School has launched a Chinese language version of its free web-based instructional training course “Global Tobacco Control: Learning from the Experts.” More >>
February 9, 2009
Drug therapy reduces HIV transmission in couples regardless of condom use or safe-sex practices
School of Medicine: Antiretroviral drug therapy in an HIV-positive man or women can alone help prevent the transmission of HIV to an uninfected partner, regardless of counseling, the patient’s use of condoms or other safe-sex practices, AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins report. More >>
February 6, 2009
Viral-load testing: A better way to predict anti-HIV, drug-treatment failures in Africa
School of Medicine: Johns Hopkins and Ugandan scientists say counting the number of HIV viruses in the blood rather than relying solely on counting the number of circulating HIV-fighting CD4 immune system cells is a far better way to uncover early signs that antiretroviral drugs are losing their punch, and to signal the need to get patients on more potent treatments to keep the disease in check. More >>
February 6, 2009
"Public Health and Human Rights: The Work Ahead of Us" available online
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: A summary of the events and videos from a half-day symposium to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are now available online. More >>
February 2, 2009
Lancet names Hopkins-led article "Paper of the Year"
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: The article "Effect of community-based newborn-care intervention package implemented through two service-delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial" by Abdullah Baqui, MBBS, DrPH, was selected by The Lancet as one of three to share the honor of "Paper of the Year." More >>
January 29, 2009
Johns Hopkins Medicine International appoints new CEO at Al Corniche
From Johns Hopkins Medicine International: Ronald S. Lavater has been appointed chief executive officer of Al Corniche Hospital (Abu Dhabi, UAE), which handles more than 12,000 births and 216,000 outpatient visits a year. Johns Hopkins provides day-to-day oversight of the 235-bed Al Corniche Hospital. More >>
January 16, 2009
Researchers find essential proteins for final stage of malaria transmission cycle
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have identified, for the first time, the molecular components that enable the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium to infect the salivary glands of the Anopheles mosquito—a crucial and final stage for spreading malaria to humans. More >>
January 15, 2009
Hopkins Nursing Professor becomes Global Health Ambassador
From the School of Nursing: Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, has been selected to join a group of 25 experts in global health research who will advocate for greater U.S. investment in global health research. More >>
January 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins Medicine International signs management agreement with Panama's Hospital Punta Pacifica
From Johns Hopkins Medicine International: Johns Hopkins Medicine International and Hospital Punta Pacífica (HPP) in Panama City, Panama, have entered into a seven-year agreement that gives JHI complete managerial oversight of the 75-bed hospital. More >>
January 14, 2009
Bloomberg School faculty named Global Health Research Ambassadors
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Bloomberg School faculty members Adnan A. Hyder, MD, PhD, MPH, and Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH, have been selected to join a group of 25 experts in global health research who will advocate for greater U.S. investment in global health research. More >>
January 13, 2009
Completely Predictable: Cholera in Zimbabwe
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Zimbabwe’s cholera crisis, which has caused more than 1,900 deaths, is a “manmade disaster” caused by President Robert Mugabe’s government, according to a January 13 report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), co-authored by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researcher Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH ’90. More >> January 5, 2009
Prolonged Nevirapine in breast-fed babies prevents HIV infection but leads to drug-resistant HIV
From the School of Medicine: Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected anyway, a team of researchers report. But the investigators highlight the proven superiority of the six-week regimen in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in breast-fed infants. More >> December 23, 2008
Maternal Health Problems in Burma Widespread
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: The maternal health care issues facing women in eastern Burma (also known as Myanmar) are widespread and underreported, according to surveys by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers report that more than 88 percent of women had a home delivery during their last pregnancy and displaced women were more than 5 time as likely to receive no antenatal care. More >> December 22, 2008
Hopkins-led Article Finalist for "Paper of the Year"
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: An article by Abdullah Baqui, MBBS, DrPH, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of International Health, and colleagues from the U.S. and Bangladesh was selected as one of six finalists for "Paper of the Year" by The Lancet. The article "Effect of community-based newborn-care intervention package implemented through two service-delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial" was published in the June 6 edition of The Lancet. More >> November 10, 2008
Manual offers guidelines for care of children in humanitarian emergencies
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Children displaced by war or natural disaster require special care and attention. Faculty from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, working with colleagues from the World Health Organization (WHO), have developed a new field manual to assist aid workers caring for children caught in humanitarian emergencies.More >> November 6, 2008
Hopkins Nursing to collaborate with King's College in London
From the School of Nursing: The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) and the Florence Nightingale SchoolKing's College King's Collge London and Hopkins Nursing launch formal collaboration of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College London (KCL SON) - with their clinical partners, the nursing departments at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals - have agreed to develop and launch a formal collaboration. More >> November 3, 2008
USAID awards HIV prevention research contract
From the Center for Communication Programs: The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health has been awarded a five-year contract for up to $48 million for HIV Prevention Program Research from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Global Health’s Office of HIV/AIDS, under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). More >> October 14, 2008
Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/Tuberculoisis Epidemic (CREATE) gets $32 million boost from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
From CREATE: An international effort led by physician-scientists at Johns Hopkins to control the global spread of HIV-related tuberculosis and treat the dual epidemics in hardest-hit countries has received $32 million in additional funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. More >> October 14, 2008
Efavirenz-based initial therapies associated with better outcomes in HIV-infected adults
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that HIV-infected patients taking the antiretroviral drug efavirenz were more likely to adhere to treatment and less likely to experience virologic failure and death compared to patients taking nevirapine. More >> September 30, 2008
Jhpiego receives $40 million to save the lives of women in Tanzania
From Jhpiego The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Tanzania has awarded Jhpiego up to $40 million over five years to implement the Mothers and Infants, Safe, Healthy, Alive (MAISHA) program. MAISHA is a consortium to improve availability and quality of health care services in Tanzania for pregnant women and their newborns with a focus on more rural and lower level facilities. More >> September 24, 2008
A call to action: The need to address the ethical challenges in short-term global health training programs
From the Berman Institute of Bioethics: In a Commentary published in the September 24th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA, of Johns Hopkins University and John Crump, MB ChB, of Duke University, call upon leaders of increasingly popular academic global health programs to address the important ethical considerations inherent in sending individuals from a wealthy country for training and service experiences to countries with very limited resources. More >> September 24, 2008
Innovative radio diaries of people living with HIV may contribute to reducing stigma in Ethiopia
From the Center for Communication Programs: Betengna, a radio program that showcases the diaries of ordinary people living with HIV, may contribute to reducing HIV-related stigma, according to the results of a research study disseminated today in Addis Ababa. More >> September 22, 2008
News media overlook food system and climate change connection
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: A study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows the nation’s top newspapers have largely overlooked the food system as one of the more important contributors to global climate change. More >> September 22, 2008
Jhpiego improves access to services at Kenyan Hospital
From Jhpiego This week 3,000 people joined the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, Michael E. Ranneberger, Kenya Minister of Medical Services The Honorable Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, Jhpiego, and its partners to officially open a new Maternal Child Health/FP and Comprehensive Care Clinic (CCC) at Embu Provincial General Hospital (EPGH) in Kenya. More >> September 17, 2008
Mother's flu shot protects newborns
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Newborns can be protected from seasonal flu when their mothers are vaccinated during pregnancy, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. More >> August 25, 2008
Jhpiego receives $16.5 million for HIV/AIDS innovations in Tanzania
From Jhpiego Jhpiego has been awarded $16.5 million from the United States Agency for International Development, over five years, to provide support for a program in Tanzania to increase access and use of HIV counseling and testing services. More >> August 22, 2008
Malaria researchers identify new mosquito virus
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Malaria Research Institute have identified a previously unknown virus that is infectious to Anopheles gambiae—the mosquito primarily responsible for transmitting malaria. More >> August 21, 2008
Hopkins Peace Corps enrollments rank at top
From the School of Nursing: A continuing high enrollment of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) positions the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing at the top of the enrollment rankings for colleges and universities that are Peace Corps Fellows/USA partners. In 2008-2009, 39 fellows will be enrolled at Hopkins, the only nursing school in the country with a baccalaureate Peace Corps Fellows Program. More >> August 20, 2008
Johns Hopkins and Mexican Society of Neurosurgery holds joint conference in Puerto Vallarta
From the School of Medicine: Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Mexican Society of Neurosurgery co-hosted a day-long conference on brain tumor management in Mexico this month, an unusual joint venture the planners hope will be a model for continuing medical education programs covering a wide range of medical specialties in that country. More >> August 19, 2008
Study recommends modifying pneumonia treatment guidelines in developing countries
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health: A study published online by Bloomberg School researchers on August 19 in The Lancet builds on the evidence that local health facilities are able to correctly treat and manage severe childhood pneumonia. Moreover, the study suggests that more children will be correctly treated if only the most urgent cases are referred to hospitals. More >> August 18, 2008
Johns Hopkins scientists discover what drives the development of a fatal form of malaria
From the School of Medicine: In a study described in the August 14 issue of Cell Host and Microbe, Johns Hopkins researchers reveal that when red blood cells are infected with the malaria parasite, they activate platelets to secrete the PF4 protein, which triggers the immune system to inflame blood vessels and obstruct capillaries in the brain; both are hallmarks of cerebral malaria. More >> August 6, 2008
HIV expert says one step down, two more to go in quest to cure AIDS
From the School of Medicine: In an address to be delivered Aug. 6 at the XVII International Conference on AIDS, taking place in Mexico City, infectious disease specialist Robert Siliciano, M.D., Ph.D., says current drug-combination therapies can stop HIV in its tracks, with some combos suppressing its ability to make copies to less than one in a billion. More >> | 
