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Explore the latest public health research and insights about infectious diseases.

Unraveling Long COVID's Causes and Impacts

March 21, 2023

Long COVID may offer insights into other vexing post-acute illnesses.

How Human Challenge Trials Accelerate Vaccine Development

March 13, 2023

Vaccinated, intentionally infected, and sequestered in a hospital unit, volunteers help researchers fast-track promising vaccine candidates.

Public Health Under the Microscope

March 07, 2023

How a menagerie of bacteria, fungi, and parasites silently shapes human health.

Hundreds of chickens in a chicken feeding factory

How Concerned Should We Be About Bird Flu?

February 23, 2023

Epidemiologist and environmental microbiologist Meghan Frost Davis discusses the current state of the H5N1 outbreak and its global reverberations.

Johns Hopkins-Led Convalescent Plasma Study, Published in NEJM in March 2022, Among 2023 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards from Clinical Research Forum

February 22, 2023

Findings demonstrated early treatment using convalescent plasma was effective in treating COVID-19 outpatients.

A Constellation of Storms: The Threat of Infectious Diseases

February 14, 2023

Infectious microbes constantly emerge and constantly mutate. To survive, we need extraordinary science and scientists.

Infectious Diseases Faculty

Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of infectious diseases? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Amesh Adalja

Assistant Professor

- Adjunct

George Dimopoulos

Professor

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

George Dimopoulos, PhD, MBA, studies vector-borne diseases and how mosquitoes can be rendered incapable of transmitting human pathogens.

Andrew Stanley Pekosz

Professor

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Andy Pekosz, PhD, investigates the replication and disease potential of respiratory viruses including influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging viruses.

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