Fall 2005
Relying on satellites, computers, African hunters and even the humble chicken, researchers are building disease warning systems to catch viruses on the verge of sparking epidemics.
Relying on satellites, computers, African hunters and even the humble chicken, researchers are building disease warning systems to catch viruses on the verge of sparking epidemics.
The immense diversity of the world's Muslims means public health practitioners must craft solutions that are unique to regions, cultures and villages from Karachi to London and all points in between.
Proven interventions, if fully funded, will save millions of children's lives.
Sommer Scholars Traci Means (left) and Kyden Creekpaum join 26 other students in the specially designed leadership program's inaugural class.
Research from the Bloomberg School
Gene researchers from diverse disciplines now have a new space at the School for collaborative work.
Michael J. Klag, a School alumnus and former vice dean at Hopkins School of Medicine, began his tenure as Bloomberg School dean on September 1.
As American labor transitions from the assembly line to the office cubicle, fewer workers risk death in explosions or industrial accidents. But serious health risks still lurk in the swiftly changing 21st-century workplace.
>Apoptosis—the intricately orchestrated self-annihilation of cells—is vital to human life, but can prove deadly when it goes awry. Marie Hardwick contends that a better understanding of this process could mean new treatments for everything from AIDS to Alzheimer's.
>Stories, often based on junk science, have led some parents to refuse vaccinations for their children.
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