As the national suicide rate remains near historically high levels, the need for population-level prevention is more critical ...

This annual educational seminar will be held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Kossiakoff Center in Laurel, Maryland. There are four concurrent tracks in the following topics: ...

When you wash your dishes or flush the toilet, all the waste disappears down the drain. But that’s just the start of its journey. From your home’s pipes, that waste and water flow into the sewers, ...

The Department’s work in women’s, sexual and reproductive health (WSRH) is dedicated to dismantling barriers to care, advancing wellness, and impacting lives from local communities to the global arena ...

Once symptoms appear, the rabies survival rate is less than 1%—but prevention measures and quick post-exposure interventions ...

Although state-level data are useful, a more granular picture of where measles cases are occurring can help to inform a more effective public health response. The U.S. Measles Tracker maps the ...

Medical misinformation has the potential to negatively impact health outcomes for people who have been marginalized. This reality became all too clear during the COVID-19 pandemic when medical ...

As winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, we brace for colder weather and shorter days that have more people spending time indoors. And while for many the season brings cozy holiday ...

The federally recommended vaccine schedule for American kids abruptly changed Monday when the Department of Health and Human Services removed several vaccines from the list of shots recommended for ...

Every year, typically at the end of January, teams of canvassers conduct a vital survey to count the number of people experiencing homelessness in America. This survey informs the U.S. Department of ...

A team of experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health have compiled leading research, analysis, and expert guidance into a new resource to ...

Just a generation or so ago, tens of thousands of people in the U.S.—mainly children—were afflicted by paralytic poliovirus. In 1955, an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which contained a “killed” ...