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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security launched a new website providing essential information for all organizations seeking to engage in COVID-19 testing—from large businesses planning to bring workers back to the office, to schools returning to in-person learning, to youth camps, recreational sport clubs and more.

The Working Group on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination, CommuniVax released a new report on the actions that state and local officials should take to implement and support a vaccination campaign that works with Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities to remedy COVID-19 impacts, repair the social inequity magnifying health burdens, and propel lasting opportunities and benefits in these communities.

Every day, genetic engineering techniques are used to solve critical challenges in agriculture, manufacturing, and medicine.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and its partner, the National Public Radio (NPR), have released findings from their second joint survey on the state of the national coronavirus contact tracing workforce.

The crisis is now: governors, health departments, hospitals, and other health care sector partners must take immediate action to save lives and fairly allocate limited resources.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health announces the launch of CommuniVax, a coalition to strengthen the community’s role and involvement in an equitable vaccination campaign.

A bipartisan assembly of Governors representing 1 in 3 Americans issued support for a Call to Action to Defeat COVID-19 and Promote National Recovery and Renewal, developed and released by the COVID Collaborative, which includes the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. 

Changes are urgently needed in the U.S. criminal justice system to diminish the risk of COVID_19 transmission and provide the standard of care to those who have been infected with this disease

As schools across the country strive to safely return to in-person classes, a new report provides the first application of a detailed framework to provide guidance to America’s school administrators on how best to screen for, and stop or reduce the spread of, Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) in their schools.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, alongside 4 bipartisan US senators and 3 former federal government public health officials have launched a new educational initiative: The Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Pandemic Preparedness & Health Security.