SCHOOL'S
SWAT TEAM WEIGHS IN ON ANTHRAX VACCINE
Federal health officials called upon the School's SWAT (Scientists
Working to Address Terrorism) team to advise them on whether to
offer the anthrax vaccine to 32,000 people exposed to the deadly
bacteria through attacks in the mail.
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FIRST
LIPITZ PROFESSOR INSTALLED
Right now, our health care system is trying to use the hospital
— a system that provides healthy people with acute care —
to heal a progressively older population. But this acute care
system just will not work for old people with chronic illnesses,
according to Charles E. Boult, the first director of the School's
new Roger C. Lipitz Research and Policy Center for Integrated
Health Care. Full Story >
CENTER
FOR A LIVABLE FUTURE HOSTS RESEARCH DAY
Progress reports by the winners of the Center for a Livable Future's
Faculty and Student Research Fund Awards for 2000.
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JOHNS
HOPKINS HOSTS INTERNATIONAL PLANNING CONFERENCE FOR GLOBAL AIDS
AND HEALTH FUND
In October, the University hosted an international planning conference
to determine the most feasible and cost-effective strategies for
using $1.6 billion pledged to the United Nations Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Full
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Awards & Honors
LECTURE
ROOM DEDICATED TO EDYTH SCHOENRICH
The large lecture hall at the University's Montgomery County Campus
now bears the name of Edyth Schoenrich, MD, MPH '71, a long-time
professor of Health Policy and Management who helped establish
the Rockville campus. Full
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