Lindsey Smith Taillie, PhD, is a professor and associate chair of nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on ...

With suicide rates rising nationwide, access to fast, responsive mental health care is more urgent than ever. In 2020, federal legislation launched the 988 Suicide Lifeline number which marked a major ...

Violence against partners and family members is a public health crisis, and, given the accessibility and availability of guns in America, this violence is often perpetrated with a firearm. Domestic ...

Dr. Gupta is the Florence Sabin Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and she holds a joint appointment in the ...

Calling all students who started Summer of 2025 and Term One of 2025! We’re excited to share that sign ups are open now for our upcoming Middle East Baltimore Tours with Dr. Marisela B. Gomez. This on ...

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Dire statistics about maternal health outcomes for Black women in America have become front-page news in recent years, in part because of the high-profile deaths of new mothers like CDC scientist ...

A new report from the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that life expectancy in the United States is, on average, 78.6 years versus 81.3 ...

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 ...

For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. has recorded homegrown malaria cases. The country sees about 2,000–2,500 malaria cases each year linked to travel to malaria-endemic areas such as sub-Saharan ...

One of the best tools for preventing severe complications from COVID infection is the prescription antiviral drug Paxlovid. But not nearly as many people who could benefit from it are being prescribed ...

COVID-19 uncovered catastrophic weaknesses in the international community’s ability to respond to a pandemic, from inequities in vaccine and test distribution to insufficient international ...