News

Our first news digest of 2025 features multiple video highlights from our trip to India, faculty op-eds and media mentions, and the latest in research and opportunities.

In November 2024, a Johns Hopkins delegation led by President Ron J. Daniels traveled across four cities in India — New Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, and Mumbai. The delegation announced significant university investments in programs aligned with India’s national priorities, focusing on accelerating tuberculosis elimination, advancing gender equality in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine), and expanding palliative care access in rural communities. 

  In this special edition of our Community Voices newsletter, we highlight spotlights from our Faculty, Alumni, and Student communities created in the past year. Check them out!  

In this op-ed, Whiting School of Engineering Dean Ed Schlesinger discusses how physicians utilizing artificial intelligence and data science can democratize healthcare and make a more accurate, affordable, and equitable system.

Amita Gupta, GKII faculty co-chair and Director, Division of Infectious Diseases Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Dr. Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran, Director (Former), ICMR-National Institution for Research in Tuberculosis explain focusing on early interventions could reduce TB burden, improve overall treatment outcomes and school attendance rates, and prevent progression from latent infection to active disease in this op-ed.

Achieving a TB-free India is no small task. According to the World Health Organization, in India, two people die from TB every three minutes, and the country accounts for around 27 percent of total TB cases worldwide. Yet this ancient disease is both preventable and treatable.