Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Applying Excellence–and Humanity–to Unprecedented Challenges
This challenging year brought out the best from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. To the pandemic, we brought science, innovation, and guidance. To misinformation, we brought evidence. To racism, we responded with listening, engagement, and action.
Guided by 104 years of history and our strategic plan, our faculty, students, alumni, and staff worked tirelessly these past 12 months to win victories large and small for public health.
Following are just 20 of the many things we take pride in this year–and one fervent hope for the future.
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Navajo Nation receives 1st shipment of COVID-19 vaccine Shondiin Silversmith, Arizona Republic
As the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines roll out across the U.S. this week, the Navajo Nation received its first doses Monday and plans to administer them to health care workers starting Tuesday.
The pandemic has at times overwhelmed the Navajo Nation, which earlier this year had the highest infection rate per capita. The daily number of COVID-19 positive cases has risen sharply during the latest wave of the virus, according to data from the Navajo Nation Department of Health.
On Monday, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer visited the Gallup Indian Medical Center as the Navajo Area IHS received the first shipment of the vaccines.
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More than 44 thousand people worldwide volunteered for the Pfizer study; half got the new vaccine and half got a placebo. One percent of those volunteers are indigenous Americans, among them, Derrick Leslie. He works in emergency operations for the White Mountain Apache tribe. Having a front row seat to all of the heartache, the pain, and all the suffering that this virus has caused my people … this is really my way of contributing to the greater good, Leslie says.
But Leslie’s family didn’t see it that way. They told him the vaccine was dangerous, and the people behind it couldn’t be trusted. Leslie tried to ease their fears. The more opportunities for indigenous people to be included in research, the healthier world we’ll have, he says. People will always be scared until you show them differently.