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.
The Johns Hopkins slavery “scandal”
Historical census records show that Johns Hopkins founder of his namesake university in Baltimore, Maryland was a slave-owner, university officials announced on December 9, in an open letter. The revelation has been seized on to generate a racialist campaign at Johns Hopkins University, site of the nation’s leading medical college.
The open letter, entitled
“Reexamining the history of our founder,” states that university officials received a tip from a Maryland state archivist about the existence of the census records in the spring. A team of university historians followed up on the tip and found “government census records that state Mr. Hopkins was the owner of one enslaved person listed in his household in 1840 and four enslaved people listed in 1850. By the 1860 census, there are no enslaved persons listed in the household.” Additional documents from the 1830s showed that Hopkins sometimes purchased slaves to settle debts.
Search committee formed to identify next Hopkins Nursing dean
The school s new leader will succeed Patricia Davidson, who has led the School of Nursing since 2013 By Hub staff report / Published Dec 21, 2020
Johns Hopkins University today announced plans to launch a global search for the next dean of its School of Nursing. Patricia Davidson, a global leader in cardiac health and the care of vulnerable populations, will leave the university in April to become vice-chancellor of the University of Wollongong in her native Australia. These achievements, as well as countless others, reflect the tireless work of Trish and the school s outstanding faculty, staff, and students, to increase the impact of Hopkins Nursing and extend its reach around the globe, JHU President Ronald J. Daniels wrote in a message to the Hopkins community today. We are in a fortunate position to be able to build upon this great foundation as we search the right p
By Photos by Will Kirk / Published Dec 21, 2020
Our world was forever changed in 2020, a year of monumental challenges and heartbreak, but also of breakthroughs, discoveries, and triumphs large and small. As we prepare to ring in 2021 and turn the tide on a global pandemic, take a look back at how Johns Hopkins weathered the 2020 storm.
January
Students shake it out during an Intersession course on dance movement. The minisemester, which is typically held in January, will be held virtually in 2021.
JHU President Ron Daniels leads an Intersession course on the role of universities in preserving democracy.
Mathematician Emily Riehl (right) learns she has won the President s Frontier Award, which is accompanied by a $250,000 award.