The Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) study was featured on WBAL TV on March 22. Department of Epidemiology Associate Professor Dani Fallin, PhD is the principle investigator for Maryland EARLI site. The EARLI Study is a nationwide study examining environmental and genetic risk factors for autism. The study investigators will enroll 1200 pregnant women who already have a child with autism. The study then follows the women through the pregnancy until the child is three years of age.
EARLI Study Featured on WBAL TV
Posted by hopkinsepi on March 23, 2011
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Ranked Number 1 By US News and World Report
Posted by hopkinsepi on March 17, 2011
The Bloomberg School of Public Health has been ranked number one by US News and World Report. The list of rankings, which was released on Tuesday, includes colleges and universities, and graduate programs.
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and School of Medicine were ranked number one and three respectively.
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HPV and Head and Neck Cancer
Posted by hopkinsepi on March 2, 2011
New research on head and neck cancer led by Gypsyamber D’Souza, PhD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and Sara Pai, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, was featured on the CBS Evening News Monday evening.
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December 2010 NIH Conference: Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research
Posted by hopkinsepi on March 1, 2011
In December of 2010, Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, helped to organize a conference on Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research. The conference, organized by the National Institutes of Health in cooperation with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), “will make use of case studies that pose difficult questions about what kinds of research, methods and analyses should be used to address limitations in current evidence for interventions and tests being examined by decision-making bodies. The cases will address a variety of important comparative effectiveness research questions facing U.S. researchers, care providers, health systems, and patients.”
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Examining Prior Research in Randomized, Controlled Trials
Posted by hopkinsepi on March 1, 2011
An article published in the January issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine argues that randomized, controlled trials cannot, and should not be conducted without proper consideration of similar, previously conducted research. Failure to do so has the potential to skew study findings, to be fiscally irresponsible, and involve study participants in unnecessary research. The study authors, Karen Robinson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, and Steven Goodman, MD, PhD, MHS, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health, note that complete examination of existing evidence and research is not just important, but ethically necessary.
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Department of Epidemiology Professor Recognized for Teaching Excellence
Posted by hopkinsepi on December 28, 2010
Homayoon Farzadegan, PhD, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, has been recognized by students for teaching excellence in the first term of the 2010-2011 academic year. Recognition is based upon student course evaluations, and for this first academic term, 15 faculty members were recognized for their work teaching 14 courses. Dr. Farzadegan has been recognized for teaching excellence in his course, Epidemiology and Public Health Impact of HIV/AIDS, for the past two academic years.
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Johns Hopkins Biological Repository
Posted by hopkinsepi on November 16, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Biological Repository (JHBR) Service Center is able to provide JHU investigators with a variety of lab and repository services for conducting large or small scale epigenetic, natural history, clinical trial, prospective and case/control studies.
The JHBR Service Center provides, on a fee for service basis, a range of lab and repository services including, but not limited to, phlebotomy, blood and other body fluid collection, specimen processing, testing, storage, as well as DNA extraction.
Established in 1984, JHBR consists of 5000 square feet of biosafety level 2 and 3 labs on the 6th floor of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Service Center maintains a large biorepository of approximately 2 million biological specimens in more than 120 freezers and 3 cryogenic units. To manage the repository specimens, a quality specimen management system, FreezerworksTM, is in use for freezer inventory, specimen labeling, and tracking for our large biorepository. Additionally, JHBR is certified through CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act) to perform HIV-1 viral load RT-PCR, HCV and HBV serological tests, as well as providing expert services in specimen fractionation, cell isolation and cryopreservation. Recently, a fully automated platform for DNA extraction and quantification system is now in place to support the growing number of epigenetic studies. More than 40 studies are currently using JHBR services. Biological specimen deliveries are accepted 6 days per week, excluding University holidays. National and local delivery services including Fed Ex priority shipping can be coordinated to suite individual needs and the rates for services offered are often 25% lower than commercial biological services.
Our center can provide a one-stop shop for conducting studies with biological sample collection, processing, storing and testing.
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Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Offers New Study Design Consulting Service with Center for Clinical Trials
Posted by hopkinsepi on November 15, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research has just announced a new Study Design Consulting Service with the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Trials. Faculty members from the Center for Clinical Trials are now available for consultation on questions relating to study design and conduct. The goal of this consulting service is to provide intellectual and methodological input into clinical research studies and research synthesis initiated by faculty of Johns Hopkins University.
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Alfred Sommer Awarded Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health
Posted by hopkinsepi on November 1, 2010
Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS, dean emeritus of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and professor in the Department of Epidemiology has been awarded the Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health by the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Sommer’s research in Vitamin A deficiency has saved millions of children from blindness and death.
The Thomas Francis Jr. medal is awarded every three to five years to individuals who have, “contributed to the significant advancement of global public health through: major scientific discovery or invention, leadership in development, implementation, or promotion of effective public health policy, nationally or internationally, seminal support for the development or implementation of effective action that advances global public health, distinguished service in the promotion of global public health. “ The medal is accompanied by a $50,000 grant, to support efforts to advance global public health.
The first recipient of the Francis medal was Dr. William Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and principal architect of the smallpox eradication of 1976.
Read the complete JHSPH press release.
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Dr. Larry Appel Named Director of the Welch Center
Posted by hopkinsepi on November 1, 2010
Larry Appel, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology was named the director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research on October 6. Dr. Appel, who joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1989, has conducted research on obesity, diabetes and hypertension.
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