The Fall 2019 issue looks beyond shelter to explore the science of housing and health, explains how Biostatistics professor Jeff Leek is preparing Baltimore youth for data science careers, and follows Emily Gurley in her painstaking surveillance of the lethal Nipah virus. A scientist partners with NASA to test melanin as a radiation barrier and the School’s first digital health faculty weighs the pitfalls and potential of digitized health care. Plus: Twenty years of the Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, mosquitoes’ eating habits, the facts on overdose prevention sites.

The Summer 2019 issue explores the genetics of susceptibility to diseases like polio and acute flaccid myelitis with epidemiologist Priya Duggal. We also highlight Henry Mosley’s deep influence on the field of public health and bring a new lens to teen suicide prevention. Cancer expert Otis Brawley uncovers the real drivers of health disparities, and Christy Turlington Burns sees opportunities in global maternal health. Plus: The accidental gerontologist, the vicious circle of poverty and NCDs, and SCIBAR, a new initiative to combine basic and applied science.

The Spring 2019 issue goes into the lab with Isabelle Coppens, whose novel techniques provide powerful new insights into Toxoplasma and related deadly parasites. We also look at mobile sensors’ capacity to improve public health and the challenges confronting unaccompanied minor refugees in Greece, and WHO’s Matshidiso Moeti explains why she’s optimistic about health care progress in Africa. Plus: A call for open science, a new MOOC on gun-violence prevention and how an MPH student brought a free community workout program to Baltimore.