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Center for Global Health 2020 Annual Report
12/11/2020
The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health is proud to present our 2020 Annual Report. As 2020 comes to a close we reflect on the noteworthy achievements of our students, faculty, and staff in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that you enjoy reading about how CGH pivoted during 2020 to move forward with our mission in new and exciting ways despite tumultuously uncertain circumstances.
We would like to wish all of our students, faculty, staff, and...
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COVID-19 Intervention Fellowship Awardees Announced
12/07/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked unprecedented public health and social measures (PHSM) by national and local governments, including border restrictions, school closures, mandatory face mask use, and stay-at-home orders. Quantifying the effectiveness of these interventions in reducing disease transmission is key to rational policy-making in response to the current and future pandemics. In order to estimate the effectiveness of these interventions, detailed descriptions of their timelines, scale...
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CGH Associate Director Bhakti Hansoti Works Globally on Behalf of the Sick and Dying
08/18/2020
Bhakti Hansoti, Center for Global Health Associate Director and Johns Hopkins emergency medicine physician, brings a visceral understanding of COVID-19 to her work.
Read about her experience here in a feature piece written by Maryalice Yakutchik, Communications Manager, Jhpiego.
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Join the CUGH 2021 Scientific Program Advisory Committee
08/18/2020
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 12th annual CUGH conference will be held online March 12-14th, 2021 with satellite sessions from around the world taking place between March 1-11th. CUGH felt that this would be the safest course in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The host institutions, which form CUGH 2021’s Executive Planning Committee (EPC) are: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Texas A&M University, University of Texas Health Science...
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How Lessons from Global Health Can Improve Health And The Response To COVID-19 In The US
08/11/2020
Written by: Charles B. Holmes Eric P. Goosby
August 10, 2020
Cases of coronavirus are rising in states across the U.S. and across parts of Latin America, Africa, and South Asia, showing that even the first wave of arguably one of the world’s most dangerous pandemics is far from over. The data on who is most likely to contract, and succumb to, the virus tell a sobering tale of the link between inequities in society and one’s chances of survival. In...
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Now Hiring a Communications Intern
05/29/2020
We're Hiring a CGH Communications Intern! Posted: May 29, 2020The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health (CGH) seeks a dynamic, self-starter to assist in communications efforts for the Center. The summer communications intern will work with the Assistant Director and Program Coordinator to implement organizational communications strategies and to fulfill organizational goals. The summer intern will support virtual events such as the Center’s COVID-19 Seminar...
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Global Health Day 2020
05/01/2020
Each year, as a part of the international community, the Center for Global Health celebrates Global Health Day by sharing and informing global health knowledge, expertise and experiences with the Johns Hopkins, local, and international communities. While we were unable to gather in-person for Global Health Day 2020 due to social distancing restrictions, the Center for Global Health and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health MPH Program are happy to present a virtual...