By Lindsay Smith Rogers
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, faith leaders and public health officials have come together to reach communities most at risk. Faith leaders became credible sources for COVID-19 information, and places of worship became trusted access points for testing and vaccinations. This partnership of faith and science offers opportunities for addressing another public health emergency: the opioid epidemic.
The CDC estimates that nearly 841,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999. The COVID-19 pandemic has only inflamed the crisis: 88,000 people died from overdoses between August 2019 and August 2020 alone.
Like COVID-19, the urgency of the opioid crisis must be met with creative, cross-sector solutions. Toward that end, the Clinton Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Centre for Responsible Leadership are partnering to convene national leaders from science and faith for quarterly discussions about how to work co
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By JACQUES KELLY | The Baltimore Sun | Published: December 26, 2020 BALTIMORE (Tribune News Service) Dr. Arthur Bushel, a retired dentist who taught at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was an expert on fluoridation, died of complications of normal pressure hydrocephalus Nov. 21 at the North Oaks Retirement Community. He was 99. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the son of Dr. Harry Bushel, a dentist, and his wife Bertha. He followed his father and also became a dentist, graduating from the Columbia University School of Dentistry in 1943 and returning after the war to Columbia to earn a master’s degree in public health.
Liberian Student Graduates with Two Outstanding Academic Awards from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Public Health Liberian Student Graduates with Two Outstanding Academic Awards from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Public Health
Ambulai Johnson, MPH Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
BALTIMORE, 12. 23. 2020 – A Liberian student at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States, Ambulai Johnson, has been awarded the Outstanding Academic and Leadership Award by the faculty and students. Ambulai graduates among the top 10 of his class, thereby also awarding him the Delta Omega Award for academic excellence.
“I am very happy to be recognized and receive these awards. Several months ago I was very worried about how I would complete my studies when my tuition could not be paid, but thanks to Dr. Ellen J. MacKenzie, Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan, Mr. Tolbert Nyenswah, Dr. Marie Deiner West, Dr. David Peters and