Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Have you ever been driving through Baltimore and seen a child on a bike pass you by with no helmet? Maybe you wonder why there isn’t anyone doing something about the safety education of youth in this city. Do you ever see a homeless person on the street and wish you could help get them […]
Meg Chow & Alina Predescu ⋅ A Day in the Life, Events and Happenings Baltimore, public health ⋅
This past April, you may have noticed a surplus of sparkling lights scattered throughout Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. For those who participated, Light City Baltimore provided food, music and fun. This event was so popular, it even attracted people from outside of Baltimore, including residents from Philadelphia and New York City, among other places. But for […]
Social justice and social innovation have recently become buzzwords in millennial circles as focal points for tackling social issues. In essence, social justice purports a world in which all people have a right to equitable treatment and fair allocation of resources without any form of discrimination. Social innovation is a new movement grounded in the […]
Charles Odonkor ⋅ Perspectives in Research Baltimore, social justice ⋅
If you listen closely, you’ll hear the buzz begin sometime in August. With your eyes, you’ll start to see the signs in early September. As the week comes to a close, like clockwork, the office environment becomes unmistakably … monochromatic. You may not notice it at first, but once you start to pay attention, it’s […]
Guys, it’s finally happening. I am going to graduate with my Ph.D. This is 99 percent excellent news, and I am 99 percent thrilled. But let’s talk about that other 1 percent. It comes from the abrupt realization that in a few short months, I’m going to move away from Baltimore, probably to the other […]
Doctors rarely have the chance to provide a variety of free and comprehensive services to patients under one roof, but the seventh annual B’more Healthy Expo at the Baltimore Convention Center was an opportunity to do just that. In a setting where health screenings, informational sessions, exhibits and entertainment were available, members of the community […]
Diana Cholakian ⋅ Events and Happenings Baltimore, health literacy, public health ⋅
Six months after the civil unrest in Baltimore City, residents are still trying to make sense of what happened. Moving forward, many have turned their attention to the city’s future, hoping to create a bright one for its citizens — particularly, its youth. This is important, especially in a time such as this when Baltimore’s […]
pgaliatsatos ⋅ A Day in the Life, Perspectives in Research Baltimore, community, public health, youth science ⋅
Anila Chaudry, a second-year medical student at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, sits across from a community member at a local elementary school. Chaudry describes the airway, how air moves in and out of the lungs, and how it’s all related to asthma. The community member has a son with asthma. She came with […]
pgaliatsatos ⋅ Perspectives in Research Asthma, B'more Asthma Free, Baltimore, Bayview, Johns Hopkins Bayview, Lungs, Pulmonary ⋅
As the American Society of Human Genetics concluded its 65th annual meeting in Baltimore, the air around the Johns Hopkins McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine still seems to buzz with the excitement of it all. Among the plethora of innovative research and technologies presented, the society devoted some focus to those entities whose existence is […]
Xuan Pham ⋅ Events and Happenings ASHG, Baltimore, Biomedical Research, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Human Genetics, human genome editing, innovation, Research ⋅