Category: Academic Centers and Affiliates
Myanmar health leaders take Johns Hopkins bioethics lessons home
July 23, 2012
The impact of intensive summer bioethics courses extends around the globe as health leaders from Myanmar take their lessons home. Myaing Myaing Nyunt, an assistant professor of clinical pharmacology and international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has long been interested in developing bioethics training in her native Myanmar. When she […]
Berman Bioethics Institute to study informed consent options
July 23, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is a recipient of one of 50 pilot projects to be funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study stakeholder views of streamlined informed consent options for comparative effectiveness research studies. “We are so pleased that questions of informed consent will be included in these pilot projects,” […]
Hopkins-Nanjing Center celebrates 25 years
July 9, 2012
President Ronald J. Daniels and incoming SAIS Dean Vali R. Nasr led the university’s delegation to celebrate in China the 25th anniversary of the Johns Hopkins University–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. The festivities kicked off on June 15 with the center’s annual commencement ceremony, where Daniels had the opportunity to address the […]
African Bioethics Program receives NIH continuation grant
July 9, 2012
The Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is planning its second decade of building capacity in research ethics across sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to a five-year grant from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. In the program, an African institution is selected each year to […]
JHU Press: Telling stories of the ‘forgotten war’
June 11, 2012
The War of 1812 has long suffered an inferiority complex. Unluckily wedged between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, the conflict often gets overlooked and thus earned the nicknames the “forgotten war” and the “Rodney Dangerfield of armed engagements.” For most Americans, knowledge of the war is limited to the victories of the USS […]
Inaugural Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy installed
May 21, 2012
Jeffrey Kahn, deputy director for policy and administration at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an authority on research and public health ethics, was installed May 1 as the inaugural Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy. Ronald J. Daniels, president of The Johns Hopkins University, was […]
JHU Press marks 30 years of ’36-Hour Day’ with 5th edition
November 14, 2011
When the Johns Hopkins University Press published The 36-Hour Day in 1981, the subject of the book—Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias—was little known and barely discussed. In the 30 years since, 2.5 million copies of the Nancy Mace and Peter Rabins–authored book have been sold, and the fifth edition—with 30,000 trade paper and 5,000 large-print […]
Frontiers in Medicine and Science Day
November 14, 2011
The Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus recently hosted 600 seventh-graders for the third annual Frontiers in Science and Medicine Day. The event, which is run in partnership with 17 other research centers, companies and health care organizations, includes an hour of hands-on science and medical activities at the campus and an hourlong lab tour at […]
CTY site for gifted math, science students wins ‘Science’ top honor
October 31, 2011
Cogito.org, a website and online community for gifted math and science students, won the prestigious Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) Oct. 27 in recognition of its success at bringing students from all over the world together to “geek out” about a wealth of topics ranging from extrasolar planets to epigenetics. Cogito was […]
Johns Hopkins bioethicist honored for work on social justice issues in health policy
October 17, 2011
Ruth Faden, founding director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an authority on research ethics and social justice considerations in health policy, is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award given by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. The award was presented Oct. 15 during the organization’s annual meeting in […]