Bloomberg American Health Initiative – Johns Hopkins
webThis is the homepage of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at Johns Hopkins, focused on public health issues like addiction, adolescent health, environmental challenges, food systems, and violence. It has no direct relevance to AI safety research.
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The Bloomberg American Health Initiative is a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health program training public health leaders and funding research on five key issues affecting American life expectancy: addiction and overdose, adolescent health, environmental challenges, food systems, and violence. The initiative emphasizes health equity, evidence-based interventions, and policy advocacy. It publishes research, policy briefs, and news on these public health topics.
Key Points
- •Focuses on five key public health areas: addiction/overdose, adolescent health, environmental challenges, food systems, and violence.
- •Cross-cutting themes include health equity, evidence-based practice, and policy engagement.
- •Highlights statistics such as 75,000+ annual overdose deaths and 100,000+ deaths from air pollution.
- •Supports research and community projects aimed at improving health outcomes across the U.S.
- •Produces reports, policy packages, podcasts, and newsletters for public health practitioners and policymakers.
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Environmental Challenges
Who Sprawls the Most? Mapping Sprawl and Assessing Its Impact on Everyday Life
A new report led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that compact, connected metropolitan areas and urban counties in the U.S. yield health benefits and offset living costs compared to areas that are more sprawling.
A Year of Impact
The 2025 annual report highlights just some of the impact the Initiative has had in communities across the country.
Adolescent Health
Play, Policy, and Potential
A new policy package, funded by the Initiative, outlines the importance of recess and gives policymakers the tools they need to create a healthier future for young people in America.
About the Initiative
The Bloomberg American Health Initiative Works to Improve Communities and Save Lives
The Bloomberg American Health Initiative is training the next generation of public health leaders and supporting research to address five key issues impacting Americans' life expectancy: addiction and overdose, adolescent health, environmental challenges, food systems for health, and violence.
75,000+
Americans are now dying every year from overdose – an all-time high
1 in 9
young people are neither in school nor working
100,000+
Americans each year die of illnesses caused by air pollution
Nearly 1 in 4
Households are experiencing hunger in the pandemic – a new record
53% increase
in homicide rates in 27 cities in summer 2020 compared to summer 2019
Addiction & Overdose
Adolescent Health
Environmental Challenges
Food Systems for Health
Violence
Cross-Cutting Themes
Our Work is Rooted in Health Equity, Evidence, and Policy
Equity
Low-income communities and communities of color disproportionately experience illness and mortality from many different health challenges. Progress and justice require understanding and confronting these inequities directly.
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Equity
Evidence
Good intentions do not guarantee successful outcomes. It’s essential to study whether interventions, programs and policies work. Developing new tools to support more frequent and effective use of evidence is a critical goal for the Initiative.
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Evidence
Policy
Moving the needle in the Initiative’s focus areas requires engaging a broad coalition of actors from the research, policy, practice and academic fields to design, implement, evaluate and advocate for evidence-based policy solutions.
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Policy
Instagram
Newsletter
Bluesky
YouTube
LinkedIn
Podcast
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