Health Equity

For this month's reflection, HPM Chair Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD, talks about the importance of using policy to address climate change, especially given the number of health inequities that extreme weather conditions would continue to exacerbate.

B’more for Healthy Babies helped reduce the city’s infant mortality rate to record lows. Now, CCP looks to replicate that success in more communities.

On March 28, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy hosted a forum about new rules and federal initiatives expanding methadone access for persons who are incarcerated—part of a sweeping effort to preventfentanyl- and other opioid-related overdose deaths, reduce recidivism and increase equity post-incarceration.

Department of Health Policy and Management assistant professor Kadija Ferryman, PhD, reflects on the journey that has led her to focusing on bioethics, health technologies and racial health inequities through research and education.

Researchers found that in addition to reduced arsenic levels measured in urine tests, households reported significant increases in the use of filtered water for drinking and cooking.