Masako Horino, DrPH, RD, is a Public Health Research Specialist and nutrition epidemiologist working at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Dr. Horino has been working on improving ...

The American Public Health Association has recognized two Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty for their ...

Small proof-of-principle study using samples from Baltimore sidewalks suggests fungi developing heat tolerance in city ...

Established in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, is the United States’ largest anti-hunger program, helping an ...

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Physical therapists assist a man in the extended care facility at Valley Health Hampshire Memorial Hospital on June 17 in Romney, West Virginia. Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty ...

Researchers concluded that taxing HTPs and cigarettes at the same, sufficiently high rate can combat industry pricing tactics while aligning with public health and fiscal goals. Raising tobacco taxes ...

The vast majority of vector-borne diseases in the U.S. are caused by ticks and the viruses, bacteria, and parasites they carry. Baumgarth, a professor in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health contributed to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report examining autism among children who turned 4 and 8 years old ...

As of November 2024, over 70 million Americans were enrolled in Medicaid, the government health insurance program that offers free or low-cost health care to adults and families with limited income, ...

A recent study led by researchers in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society (HBS) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzes the latest marketing trends for oral nicotine ...

In 1971, the FDA approved the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which combined three vaccines that had been approved previously—in 1963, 1967, and 1969, respectively. The vaccine has proven safe ...