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Clade X: A Global Health Security Simulation was a pandemic modelling exercise led by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Health Security, which occurred on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C. [1] The exercise was named after a hypothetical novel virus, and simulated efforts to counter a fast-moving and deadly epidemic released on purpose by a terrorist ...
The Center for Health Security began as the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (CCBS) in 1998 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. [5] D. A. Henderson served as the founding director. [6] At that time, the center was the first and only academic center focused on biosecurity policy and practice. [citation ...
The World Health Summit has been criticized by Thomas Gebauer, Director of Medico International, as an "elitist club of decision makers", [45] that ignores both the social factor of global health issues and the notion of health as a human right, but rather serves particular interests. Thus, in 2009, this Frankfurt-based organization initiated ...
Important conferences related to global health. For conferences held regularly, we only include an event for the first time the conference was held, or if there was a particularly influential conference. We do not include: Incremental advances in medical science except the most important ones.
The fifth annual conference was held May 10–12, 2014, in Washington, D.C. The theme was "Universities 2.0: Advancing the Global Health Agenda in the Post-MDG Era." [4] The seventh annual conference, April 8–11, 2016, in San Francisco, had over 1,800 attendees and the theme was "Bridging to a Sustainable Future in Global Health". [5]
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university primarily based in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded as the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1916, the Bloomberg School is the oldest and largest school of public health in the United ...
Steve H. Hanke (/ ˈ h æ ŋ k i /; born December 29, 1942) is an American economist and professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. [a] He is also a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, [3] and co-director of the Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business ...
The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs is involved with work across the globe, specifically focusing on developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa [5] and Asia. [6] The range of global health programs that CCP offers can be seen on their program website and individual projects can be viewed on their project website.