Courses in Urban Health and Development

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Courses in Urban Health and Development offered at Johns Hopkins University

The University offers a variety of courses related to urban health and development at both the undergraduate and graduate campuses. For a list of courses, click here (PDF file).

WAYS TO IMPROVE URBAN HEALTH

Start a School for Science
Charting a New Course in Public Education

To steer city kids toward careers in biotech, a pair of Bloomberg School alumni found a charter school.

With its temporary headquarters on the fourth floor of a soon-to-be-demolished West Baltimore high school building, the Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences, or MATHS, is very much a work-in-progress. But the new state-funded charter school has an ambitious mission: prepare 8^th- through 12^th-grade students for future college and professional careers in biotechnology and health sciences. Founders Rebekah Ghosh, ScM ’00, and husband Bevin Philip, PhD ’01, started the fledgling school in 2006 to help reverse a troubling urban statistic—in 2004, only half of Baltimore’s high school seniors graduated, and less than half of that number went on to college.