My research focuses broadly on optimizing HIV prevention and treatment outcomes for populations most vulnerable to or disproportionately affected by HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and the U.S., including ...

) each reporting more than 200 cases so far this year. Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is extremely contagious and is a particular concern for newborns and young infants, who are especially ...

The CDC also reports estimates of both medical and non-medical exemptions to vaccination requirements. While medical exemptions remained stable at 0.2% in 2024-25, non-medical exemptions reached an ...

In September 2021, Texas passed Senate Bill 8, or SB8, which banned abortions as early as five weeks after the start of a patient’s last menstrual cycle. The measure effectively banned abortion in the ...

People with medical debt in 2023 were about five times more likely to forgo mental health care treatment in the following year due to cost, compared to those without medical debt, according to a study ...

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 ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, in partnership with the Violence Prevention Project Research Center at Hamline University, has released a comprehensive guide to support the ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found that, overall, Baltimore’s Safe Streets violence prevention program is associated with a 42% reduction in ...

On an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, communities exist alongside some 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical production plants. Since the 1980s, the area has ...

for the 2024-25 flu season, covering the time period from August 11, 2024, to June 7, 2025. These ensemble projections pool contributions from nine teams and consider six scenarios across two axes of ...

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.

Embrace the Healing Power of Nature Welcome to our Spring 2024 issue of Health Equity Happenings! It’s been a productive and successful season at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. Here are a ...