About the Program This year-long cohort program offers sponsored mentorship and select coursework through the Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity (CGWHGE) at the Johns Hopkins ...

Research The ALACRITY Center is an innovative research-to-practice translation center that uses transdisciplinary research methods to advance strategies to reduce premature mortality in the population ...

The Department of Environmental Health and Engineering strives to be a global driver of pioneering interdisciplinary research, innovative education, and translational practice that enhances human ...

Gun Violence in the United States 2023: Examining the Gun Suicide Epidemic ...

Chemical plants and factories line the roads and suburbs of the area known as Cancer Alley. October 15, 2013. Giles Clarke/Getty Images On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New ...

The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. After the Civil War, which increased concern about the effects of unsanitary ...

Our Department is dedicated to research, education, and practice on public health issues rooted in human behavior and social conditions—from smoking and substance use to diabetes and HIV and more. We ...

Population, Family, and Reproductive Health plays a vital role in safeguarding the well-being of individuals, families and communities. Faculty, staff and trainees at the Bloomberg School and at ...

* 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 ...

Co-Director Josh Horwitz, JD, is the inaugural Dana Feitler Professor of the Practice in Gun Violence Prevention and Advocacy. He works to reduce gun violence by utilizing public health research and ...

* The “All other methods combined” category includes: Other specified, classifiable Injury (697 deaths), Drowning (453), Fire/Flame (183), Other land transport (174), Other specified, not elsewhere ...

Who is Impacted by Community Violence? Black Americans were nearly 14 times as likely to be murdered by firearm as their white counterparts in 2021. Young Black males ages 15-34 made up 2% of the U.S.