The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health has announced two new tenure-track faculty position opportunities:

🔹Assistant/Associate Professor: apply.interfolio.com/160418 🔹Assistant/Assoc. Professor, Maternal Health: apply.interfolio.com/160420 #hiring #academicjobs #publichealthjobs #facultyjobs

DMH's Rebecca Fix & Johns Hopkins BSPH PFRH's Dylan Jackson joined Pediatrics on Call to talk about how "The Talk" — conversations between Black caregivers and their children about police encounters — reduces anticipatory stress about police brutality. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cri…

“These findings suggest that restrictive abortion policies may be reversing decades of progress in reducing infant deaths in the U.S.,” says @AlisonGemmill, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins BSPH PFRH and the infant-death study’s co-lead author. publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/two-new-s…

Through the Bloomberg School's Health Policy Institute, PFRH student Alea Lopez found unexpected connections to her passions—and to the Department—in the Annapolis State House. Read more: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/alea-lope…

"Women's safety and women's lives depend on our work." PFRH's Michele Decker spoke to the The Johns Hopkins University HUB on how federally funded research allows her team to uncover the causes of and find proven solutions for gender-based violence: hub.jhu.edu/2025/02/26/mic…

"It is more important to engage, even imperfectly, than to miss the opportunity to learn and contribute because I am afraid to make a mistake." Elena Kern, MSPH ’24, shares what she learned—and what surprised her—during her field placement in Ecuador: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/elena-ker…

📔Just Published: Research by PFRH's Alysse Kowalski + colleagues in Pediatrics sheds light on how the COVID-19 pandemic and economic support policies (stimulus payments & expanded child tax credit) impacted #foodsecurity across U.S. households: publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art…

"When we finally have promising interventions, we have a profound ethical obligation to use them and to study the outcomes so we can learn how to best support these women and their families. Women's safety and women's lives depend on our work." hub.jhu.edu/2025/02/26/mic…

Registration now open for PFRH's Summer Institute in Data to Policy! These content-packed, short-term courses are held online over two weeks and are available to students and non-degree professionals: publichealth.jhu.edu/academics/summ…

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Announcing the next dean of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Keshia Pollack Porter! A champion for public health, Dr. Pollack Porter has distinguished herself as a leader in advancing policy change that promotes safe, healthy environments.

🎉 Congratulations to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health PFRH Master's student Caitlin Rempson on being named Johns Hopkins University Graduate Student Employee of the Year! Learn more about Caitlin's work in Zambia with HIV-positive young people: hub.jhu.edu/2025/05/08/stu…

“...the states imposing these bans already had much worse maternal and infant health outcomes—even before Dobbs.” PFRH's Suzanne Bell and Alison Gemmill discuss the impact of the Dobbs decision on mothers and infants: magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/frontline…

The new issue of Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health finds hope in public health’s history, its people, and its future. It documents the broad impacts of U.S. government funding cuts on a wide range of research, the scientists who conduct that work, and the people who benefit from

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Thanks for covering our study! "Reducing exposure to #PFAS requires policy-level action, as well as product phaseouts & widespread water regulation. This is not something individuals can solve on their own." Zeyu Li Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health BIDMC Department of Medicine BIDMC General Medicine Research Section

Family planning advocates have long been working different angles to explain the sector’s importance to people outside their community—emphasizing the economic benefits of ensuring that family planning services are available to women who want them. magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/whats-nex…

Through B’more for Healthy Babies, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs has worked with Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) and multiple local partners to reduce infant mortality rates and improve maternal, child, and family outcomes. magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/ccp-reima…

As childhood obesity rates continue to rise, new research from Johns Hopkins shows that digital tools, such as text messages or online dashboards, can help parents encourage healthier eating habits and reduce obesity in young children. bit.ly/4m6kVPe