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 ...

Communities considering creating a Violence Reduction Council (VRC) have a new resource to see how the process plays out. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of ...

As we prepare for a new school year, an increasing number of children may be vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles, pertussis, polio, and more. New data reported by the Centers ...

Over the past 20 years, autism diagnoses have increased by about 300%, says Christine Ladd-Acosta, PhD, vice director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. It’s a big ...

The vast majority of vector-borne diseases in the U.S. are caused by ticks and the viruses, bacteria, and parasites they carry. Baumgarth, a professor in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and ...

A recent study led by researchers in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society (HBS) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzes the latest marketing trends for oral nicotine ...

A team of experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health have crafted a new tool for lawmakers to write effective safe firearm storage laws.

In 1971, the FDA approved the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which combined three vaccines that had been approved previously—in 1963, 1967, and 1969, respectively. The vaccine has proven safe ...

As with any drug or medical product, when we decide to take a vaccine, we want to feel confident that its benefits outweigh any possible risks. Scientists and public health researchers take those ...

The U.S. has one of the lowest tuberculosis incidence rates in the world. So when there are outbreaks of this bacterial infection, like the one reported last month in Kansas, they get our attention.

The polio vaccine is a public health success so profound that few people in the U.S. even think about the disease the vaccine prevents. But before the vaccine was approved in 1955, polio was a widely ...

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 ...