Mindi Levin, founder and director of SOURCE, the Student Outreach Resource Center, discusses the service-learning program she founded a decade ago. The program, which is open to students from Schools of Medicine and Nursing as well as the School of Public Health, combines traditional volunteering with structured learning. For some, the experience has been a career-changer.

Public Health: On the Inside

Service-Learning - A Real-World Lesson

Leveraging Science to Keep America Safe

A global advocate for HIV prevention, Ruben del Prado, MD, MPH ’88 is a country coordinator for the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in Nepal and Bhutan. del Prado discusses working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the importance of taking risks and remaining fearless in the pursuit of advancing public health.

The Risk Taker

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair, Deborah A. P. Hersman, discusses the impact drunk driving has on our nation’s health, and the high cost of injury and deaths attributed to alcohol-impaired related crashes.

The High Cost of Impaired Driving

Lawrence Wissow, MD, MPH ’84, bridges the gap between clinical medicine and public health as he works to address the mental health needs of children and improves how doctors communicate with their patients.

Changing Mental Health Care for Children

Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot discusses what it takes to manage a big city health department and her data-driven approach to making Baltimore a healthier place.

Big City, Big Data

Urvashi Rangan, PhD, leads the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports. She is responsible for managing risk analysis, policy assessments, label evaluations and consumer advice for tests, reports, and related advocacy work. Urvashi earned her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1995. Since 1999, she has worked for Consumer Reports where she developed the ratings system, database, and website Eco-labels.org for evaluating environmental and food labels. In 2005, she managed the launch of GreenerChoices.org, which covers green aspects over a wide range of products and services.

The Consumer's Scientist

From seasonal influenza to emerging diseases like H7N9 and MERS, respiratory viruses have potential to cause serious illness in humans. Andrew Pekosz studies these viruses in order to prevent and treat them.

The Flu Fighter

Considered one of the founding fathers of disaster mental health, George Everly Jr., PhD, shares his insights into the emotional trauma and resiliency following the Boston Marathon bombings.

Resiliency of the Human Spirit After Trauma

A policy expert with a focus on obesity, Sara Bleich, PhD, associate professor with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management, discusses the science behind the obesity epidemic and tackling the problem in a nation that loves super-sized portions.

An Epidemic of Super-Sized Proportions

A global expert on the epidemiology and prevention of hypertension and cardiovascular and kidney disease, Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses the importance of public health practice and the future of learning in the classroom and online.

Moving Public Health Forward in the Classroom and Online

A leader in public health service, former Acting Surgeon General Dr. Steven Galson discusses his years of government service and the challenge of serving as the nation's doctor during the 2009 H1N1 "swine" flu outbreak.

The Nation's Doctor

A leading expert in bullying and aggressive behaviors in children, Catherine Bradshaw, PhD, MEd, associate professor with the Bloomberg School’s Department of Mental Health, discusses her work developing programs and policies to prevent bullying and school violence, as well as the role of the Internet and common misconceptions about this age old problem.

A Public Health Approach to Bullying

Credited with launching a national conversation and investigation examining the link between community design and associated health risks, Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, professor and chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, addresses this link, as well as his struggle to bring this critical issue to the forefront of environmental public health.

Challenging the Landscape of America

A number of mass shootings, including the movie theatre massacre in Aurora, Colorado, have reinvigorated the debate surrounding gun control in America. Gun violence and policy experts, Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, and Stephen Teret, JD, MPH, address the impact of gun violence in the U.S.

Gun Violence in America

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