ERPOs, also known as red flag laws, are a promising public health intervention that temporarily removes firearms from an individual behaving dangerously and at increased risk of harm to self or others ...

Abstract: Understanding spatial variation in extreme events is critical for risk management and early warning systems. Spatial extremes exhibit complex dependence structures that require sophisticated ...

Medical debt is associated with deferred dental care, medical care, and mental health care, even among people with health insurance, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins ...

Increasingly, funders and publishers are requiring that researchers share their data openly in repositories for the purpose of making research more transparent and reliable. If you work with data ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, in partnership with the Violence Prevention Project Research Center at Hamline University, has released a comprehensive guide to support the ...

“By illustrating how costs escalate with outbreak size, this analysis reinforces the substantive burden declining MMR coverage can place on health budgets in the United States and how early response ...

Cass Crifasi and Alex McCourt answer frequently asked questions about regulating the public carry of firearms and the risks associated with permitless carry and Stand Your Ground laws.

Home CDC Provisional Data: Gun Suicides Reach All-time High in 2022, Gun Homicides Down Slightly from 2021 ...

The CDC also reports estimates of both medical and non-medical exemptions to vaccination requirements. While medical exemptions remained stable at 0.2% in 2024-25, non-medical exemptions reached an ...

Alcohol use in the U.S. has been in decline since the late 1970s—54% of U.S. adults today say they consume alcohol—the lowest number in nearly 90 years and a 13% drop since just 2022. Fifty-three ...

The United States surpassed a milestone in reported measles cases, with 2025 now having the most cases since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 and the most cases in more than ...

Harm reduction is exactly what it sounds like: reducing the harm associated with using drugs through a variety of public health interventions. But the concept relies on more than these tools and ...