Bloomberg News Interview Series

Cassandra Crifasi, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, discusses the current state of efforts to curb the epidemic of deaths by firearms.

Andrew Pekosz, professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses rising rates of COVID and the new vaccine.

Conor McMeniman, a professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, discusses his research into what makes humans attractive to mosquitoes and how that knowledge can help fight malaria. 

Sara Whaley, a research associate in the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management and program manager of the Bloomberg Overdose Prevention Initiative, discusses the use of settlement funds from opioid lawsuits. 

Adam Spira, a professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses the link between sleep disturbances and dementia. 

Ge Bai, a professor at the Carey Business School and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses hospital pricing and cost transparency. 

Cecilia Tomori, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, discusses the benefits of breastfeeding and the ways the formula industry undermines the practice. 

Carrie Nieman, core faculty at the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses the ramifications of hearing loss and the question of equitable access to hearing aids. 

Suzanne Bell, an assistant professor in the Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses women's health care and abortion access at a time of judicial uncertainty. 

Priya Duggal, a professor in the departments of Epidemiology and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses where things stand with long COVID at this point in the pandemic. 

Gerard Anderson, a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, shares his research on the effectiveness of drugs that are heavily advertised to consumers. 

Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about the health issues that resulted from the earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria.

Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about the public health emergency declaration coming to an end. 

Joshua Horwitz, co-director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about the recent rash of mass shootings in the United States.

Andy Pekosz, professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about seeing COVID still at very high rates compared to other respiratory infections.

Alison Huang, Senior Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, shares the details of a study linking hearing loss with dementia in older adults. 

Dr. Amesh Adalja, Senior Scholar at the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, explains why Covid boosters are not necessary for everyone.

Dr. Keri Althoff, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, shares her thoughts on post-holiday Covid concerns.