The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will receive more than $2 million per year in a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to form a center for studying the immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The goal … Continued
Vaccinations are seen as the primary tool to prevent COVID-19 infections, but are there other things we should be doing to bring down transmission rates? In this episode, Dr. Caitlin Rivers and Dr. Crystal Watson from the Center for Health Security return to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about where we are, … Continued
Masks, gloves, and chemical disinfectants will outlast the pandemic. Ana María Rule, an assistant professor in Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and an expert on aerosols and particulate matter, says there are better alternatives to plastics and harsh chemicals.
Walensky, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alum, discusses her time at Hopkins and shares her vision for caring for the nation beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Perhaps even more than past breakthroughs, the novel COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have inspired immediate and widespread relief and optimism. Biomedical scientists labored for decades to develop the expertise and proof of feasibility that led to the vaccines; this innovative work has saved countless lives and promises an end to a pandemic that has killed millions … Continued
Throughout her career, Tamar Rodney, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, has committed herself to researching various forms of trauma. Through her psychiatric work in Baltimore and her research identifying the biomarkers of PTSD in veterans, Rodney has become an expert in determining the various ways we react to traumatic events… … Continued
In this episode of the Public Health on Call podcast, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Hopkins researchers who break down three papers looking at reinfection. Dr. Sheree Schwartz, an epidemiologist, talks about a CDC paper on reinfections in a single Kentucky nursing home. Henri Garrison-Desany, a doctoral student in epidemiology, talks about two papers: a … Continued
We’re in a strange “limbo” where vaccinations are on the rise, but so are hospitalizations. Epidemiologist Keri Althoff and mental health expert Elizabeth Stuart return to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about making safe decisions, why vaccinated people shouldn’t take off their masks just yet, and the need for flexibility as mixed messaging … Continued
Study of almost 500,000 elderly in over 15,000 nursing homes finds that risk factors for infection tend to be affected by nursing homes and surrounding communities, while risk factors for hospitalization and death depended on patient-specific factors.
The Get the Facts About the Vax campaign, developed by the Center for Communication Programs, aims to deliver reliable, accurate information about COVID-19 vaccines.