School of Nursing researcher Tamar Rodney discusses the impacts of COVID-19 on our collective mental health as part of the Hopkins at Home lecture series
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Free interactive app identifies key signals of abuse in intimate partner relationships by Amy VanScoter
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It can be very difficult to acknowledge that you or someone who you are close to is experiencing an abusive relationship or domestic violence. Yet domestic violence and abuse statistics in the United States are staggering. More than one in three women have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner. Nearly half of all women and men in the U.S. have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner. If you or a friend is feeling unsafe in a potentially dangerous relationship, there s an app that can help. The RUSafe app aims to reach people before they become a statistic by going where they spend much of their time, on their phones.
JHU Center for Gun Policy and Research celebrates 25 years, announces plans for future
In virtual symposium, the center announces commitment to racial equity and diversity in its mission and practices, a new endowed professorship, and a name change By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published March 8, 2021
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Gun Policy and Research celebrated 25 years of conducting research and contributing evidence-based solutions to gun violence in the United States during a webcast Wednesday. Featuring a lineup of prominent local, state, and national political leaders as well as faculty from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and policy advocates, the virtual symposium served as a launchpad for the center s plans for the next 25 years and explored the challenges that lay ahead.
Symposium explores the role of nurses in vaccine rollout
In virtual event, nurses celebrate moments of triumph in the fight against COVID-19 and discuss the challenges ahead
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For decades, nursing has been one of America s most-trusted professions a role that has never been more vital to public health than it is now, in the midst of a pandemic marked by the politicization of science and the rise of misinformation. The ability to communicate science begins with trust, said Patricia Davidson, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, during a webcast Wednesday. As the most trusted profession, [nurses] have really got a strong profile and platform through which we can make progress in furthering public health.