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@JohnsHopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. • https://t.co/NWbnHxBQoJ 📧 • @PublicHealthPod 🎧 • @GHN_News 📧
Baltimore, MD
Joined February 2009
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With Thanksgiving just a day away, we wanted to brush up on our top safety tips for this year's holiday. Whether you're the host or a guest, a turkey person or a sides person, we hope these tips help you have the happiest and healthiest holiday possible. 🦃
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“When most people think of public health, they think about infectious diseases,” says Abdulgafoor Bachani, director of @hopkinsinjuries. “But drowning, the fourth most common cause of death for children under 5, is overlooked—and highly preventable.”
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Drowning is a leading cause of death for young children worldwide—and one of the most preventable.
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As we recognize Public Health Thank You Day, Dean Pollack Porter shares how deeply grateful she is to be part of a community that is united in a shared mission of improving health for people everywhere.
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The medical guidance during pregnancy is clear: Don’t use cannabis. It gets more complicated in the postpartum period, however.
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Increasing legalization and scant research on today’s cannabis products complicate guidance for nursing mothers.
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The science of environmental exposures and prenatal risk has historically gravitated to the mother. But @aisha_dickerson, an associate professor in @JohnsHopkinsEPI, suspected the focus on moms might be too narrow.
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Tracing the health impacts of chemical exposures decades after they happen is endlessly complex. Researchers are finding new ways to untangle the effects.
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While respiratory illnesses can spike during the holidays, here are some important reminders to help keep you and your loved ones healthy this Thanksgiving 🦃
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“Vaccines have saved more than 154 million lives over the past 50 years and are one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Vaccines prevent disease, save lives, and provide children with a healthy future,” says William Moss, MD, MPH, Executive Director, of the @IVACtweets.
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These proven strategies help kids thrive and lay the foundation for healthy adulthoods.
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Traveling this weekend? Make sure you have your reading materials at the ready! The latest edition of Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health features a special section on child health, examining urgent problems that threaten children’s well-being, and public health approaches and
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Questions about vaccines and autism have been around for a while, despite multiple scientific studies that do not show a connection. Read how a retracted study from the 1990s undermined trust in vaccines and why vaccines don't cause autism. https://t.co/N9REDXZQxN
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How a retracted study from the 1990s led to a persistent myth about vaccines.
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“What's happening in Hawai’i is likely to look different in major cities like New York,” said @AmericanHealth fellow Nehali Vishwanath, MPH '23. “Tailoring that approach to the young people, their communities, and families is really the best way forward.”
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Pharmaceutical supply chain issues in the U.S. have become a health and national security threat. In the latest #SpeedBrief, @JohnsHopkinsSPH's Mariana Socal discusses Hopkins' answer to this growing problem. #supplychain #drugshortages
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Popular imagination paints adolescents as living in life’s healthiest, most carefree era, enjoying growing independence but having few responsibilities. The reality is more complicated, says Kristin Mmari, a @HopkinsPFRH professor.
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Years of growth, development, and turbulence can forge healthy—or unhealthy—futures.
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Already strained public health systems have found themselves confronting two urgent questions: How do you treat chronic kidney disease of unknown causes (CKDu), and how do you prevent it?
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Is extreme heat causing an epidemic of kidney disease among otherwise healthy workers?
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The erosion of trust in public health that ensued during the pandemic has also created space for something unexpected: a new generation of communicators abandoning institutional podiums and leaning into newsletters, podcasts, and social media platforms.
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A new generation of communicators is rebuilding trust in public health, one conversation at a time.
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More than 16 million children and adolescents were diagnosed with a mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral health condition from 2022–2023. More than half of kids who needed treatment had difficulty accessing care.
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These proven strategies help kids thrive and lay the foundation for healthy adulthoods.
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BSPH's Innovation Translation Council aims to provide public health benefits in a financially self-sustaining way, whether by helping form startups, licensing intellectual property to outside companies, or helping secure corporate sponsorship for research.
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Translating discoveries into products and services can broaden public health’s impact—and sometimes turn a profit.
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So, what IS public health? We went to @JohnsHopkins Homewood campus and asked students what they think public health is. Here's how they responded (really good in our opinion!) Drop below what question we should ask next
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More screen time use among youth is connected to delayed bedtime, less total sleep, and poorer sleep quality—which have negative impacts on physical and mental well-being.
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What is digital life doing to young minds?
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By 2030, an estimated one in five Americans will be retirement age. Meeting the functional, cognitive, and psychosocial needs of this burgeoning wave of older adults with accessible, technology-driven solutions will be crucial—and a complex challenge
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A new 10,000-square-foot hub at Bayview Medical Center is helping the Johns Hopkins Human Aging Project bring together a variety of disciplines to test technology-driven solutions for aging's biggest...
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