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On May 17, 2005, Scott L. Zeger, PhD, was installed as the inaugural Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Professor in Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Zeger is professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Bloomberg School and acting director for the Biostatistics Consulting Center.

For Dr. Jane Lubchenco, internationally recognized scientist and marine ecologist, the environment is not a marginal issue, it is the issue of the future and, as she puts it “the future is here now.”

Prenatal environmental factors and parental mental health may be associated with a risk of autism, according to an analysis conducted by researchers at the Aarhus University in Denmark, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For years, researchers have debated how to define the standard of medical care that should be provided to research subjects during a study, especially in developing countries where the best methods of medical care are not available to the population at large. The debate intensifies when wealthy countries sponsor such studies in developing countries.