Press Release Archive
2009 October CLF Statement on The Confirmation of Dr. Regina Benjamin as Surgeon General of the United States
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) Director Robert Lawrence, MD, issued the following statement today regarding the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Dr. Regina Benjamin. July CLF Issues Statement on Congressional Antibiotic Resistance Actions
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) Director Robert Lawrence, MD, issued the following statement today regarding recent Congressional action on the issue of antibiotic resistance. March The Center for a Livable Future announces 2008-2009 Innovation Grant Recipients
Four research projects will be funded through the Center for a Livable Future’s Innovation Grants program. Each year, the program awards up to $20,000 for innovative interdisciplinary study by Johns Hopkins University faculty, fellows or graduate students. The purpose of the grants is to promote research that addresses some of the complex interactions among diet, human health, food production, food security, equity, and the environment. Antibiotic resistant enterococci and staphylococci isolated from flies collected near confined poultry feeding operations
Jay P. Graham, Lance B. Price, Sean L. Evans, Thaddeus K. Graczyk, Ellen K. Silbergeld
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Environmental Health Engineering 
2008 July
Yesterday's dinner, tomorrow's weather, today's news?
US newspaper coverage of food system contributions to climate change
Roni A Neff, Iris L Chan and Katherine Clegg Smith
Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health January
The Center for a Livable Future Awards Eight Innovation Grants for 2007-2008
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) has announced the recipients of its 2007-2008 Innovation Grants Program. They are: Dr. Cheryl Anderson, Sarah Stark Casagrande, Dr. Mohan Kumar, Dr. Jennifer F. Nyland, Muge Qi, Manjunath Shankar, Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, and Yaqi You.
2007 January
The Center for a Livable Future Awards Eight Innovation Grants for 2007-2008
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) has announced the recipients of its 2007-2008 Innovation Grants Program. They are: Dr. Cheryl Anderson, Sarah Stark Casagrande, Dr. Mohan Kumar, Dr. Jennifer F. Nyland, Muge Qi, Manjunath Shankar, Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, and Yaqi You. January 5
Adding Antibiotics to Chicken Feed Not Cost-Effective
For the study, Jay Graham MBA, MPH, and Ellen Silbergeld, PhD, of the Bloomberg School’s Center for a Livable Future, and John Boland, PhD, an emeritus professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering in the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, analyzed the marginal profits associated with drug additives in comparison to the costs of utilizing these drugs. The data used in the analysis were compiled by the Perdue Corporation, a leading broiler poultry producer. In 2002, Perdue discontinued use of antibiotics in its poultry.
2005
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November 28
Oil Mist Reduces Airborne Hazards in Concentrated Swine Feeding Operation
Hopkins researchers, funded in part by CLF, found a spray formulation to be effective for one of a number of air pollution health risks to workers and communities. November 28
Oil Mist Reduces Airborne Hazards in Concentrated Swine Feeding Operation
Hopkins researchers, funded in part by CLF, found a spray formulation to be effective for one of a number of air pollution health risks to workers and communities. September
Hopkins Researcher Receives $2.5 Million NIH Award - September 29, 2005
Professor Named to “Brilliant 10” List - September 19, 2005
Nathan Wolfe, DSc, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, received a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award. Wolfe, who studies the emergence of infectious diseases, combines methods from molecular virology, ecology, evolutionary biology and anthropology to study the biology of viral emergence. Earlier in the month he was named to Popular Science's fourth annual “Brilliant 10” list. The list recognizes young scientific innovators who are gaining recognition in their fields, but are still largely unknown to the public. Dr. Wolfe was a recipient of a CLF Innovation Grants for Faculty and Students. July 15
Researchers Discuss Health Implications of Meat Production and Consumption
A review article by CLF faculty and staff in the international journal, Public Health Nutrition on the health, environmental and and societal ramifications of industrialized meat production and the health consequences of a high-meat diet.
May 4
Researchers Develop New Method for Facile Identification of Proteins in Bacterial Cells
A 'shortcut" is found to help make peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) an economical tool to aid in environmental cleanup. Research authored by CLF Fellow and affiliated faculty.
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