Author: Public Health News Headlines from Johns Hopkins

Even a relatively mild Zika outbreak in the U.S. could cost more than $183 million in medical costs and productivity losses, an analysis by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds.

Increasing the percentage of elementary school children in the U.S. who participate in 25 minutes of physical activity three times a week from 32 percent to 50 percent would avoid $21.9 billion in medical costs and lost wages over their lifetimes.

Two Syrian medical doctors receive full tuition to the Bloomberg School’s Master of Public Health program

Renewal of original grant will enable continuation of malaria control and elimination research in southern Africa, new site to be added in central Africa.

During the warmer, wetter weather, 50,000 additional cases occur in East Africa as compared to years without El Niño.

Michael Botticelli, MEd, former White House Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, will join the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as its Distinguished Policy Scholar beginning in June.

Transmission of the mosquito-borne dengue virus appears to be largely driven by infections centered in and around the home, with the majority of cases related to one another occurring in people who live less than 200 meters apart,.

Transmission of the mosquito-borne dengue virus appears to be largely driven by infections centered in and around the home, with the majority of cases related to one another occurring in people who live less than 200 meters apart,.