Health Security

As COVID-19 cases surge across the country, school and district leaders are looking for clear and consistent guidance on the safest ways to reopen school facilities. In response to that demand, JHSPH and partners launched online educational modules.

A national disease forecasting center would gather the best data and models to prevent epidemics and save lives.

Americans strongly reduced their visits to grocery stores, pharmacies, and transit stations following stay-at-home orders from mayors and governors earlier this year, but did not reduce their visits to parks and beaches.

Immunization programs offered in low- and middle-income countries provide a high “return on investment” in terms of the economic costs of diseases that are prevented and the values of lives that would have been lost.

Masks may protect you as well as those around you.

el uso de una mascarilla podría evitar que usted se enferme gravemente

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with Bloomberg Philanthropies, today announced a free new online course to help public health officials implement strong contact tracing programs to break the chain of novel coronavirus transmission.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with Bloomberg Philanthropies, today launched a free online course to help train a new cadre of contact tracers to reach and assist people exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a complex phenomenon but models can be useful. Here are tips for making sense of COVID-19 models for decision-making.

The high percentage of positive results from COVID-19 tests indicates the United States has “not yet found the edges of the outbreak” and is not ready to transition from a stay-at-home strategy to a cautious return to normalcy.

Securing our food system means protecting food workers and buyers.

A new Global Health Security Index released today suggests that not a single country in the world is fully prepared to handle an epidemic or pandemic.