Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore,Maryland. Founded in 1876,Johns Hopkins was the first American university based on the European research institution model. The university also has graduate campuses in Italy,China,and Washington,D.C.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. with campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
Riordan Roett is an American political scientist specializing in Latin America. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was assistant professor (1967–1973) and acting director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University and was the Sarita and Don Johnston Professor of Political Science and Director of the Western Hemisphere Program at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington,D.C. until 2018. He is now Professor and Director Emeritus of Latin American Studies Program at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Ruth R. Faden is an American scientist,academic,and founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She was the Berman Institute's Director from 1995 until 2016,and the inaugural Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director from 2014 to 2016. Faden is the inaugural Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics.
The SAIS Review of International Affairs is an academic journal of international relations. Founded in 1956,the journal is based at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University in Washington,D.C. The journal's mission is to advance the debate on leading contemporary issues in world affairs. Its biannual print edition is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and available online through Project Muse. The SAIS Review also publishes articles on its online edition year-round on a rolling basis and produces a podcast called The Looking Glass. Notable contributors to the print and online editions of the SAIS Review include Joe Biden,George H.W. Bush,Madeleine Albright,Bill Richardson,Richard Holbrooke,Rahul Gupta,Todd D. Robinson,and Piero Gleijeses.
Alfred (Al) Sommer is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive,large dose vitamin A capsule twice a year reduces child mortality by as much as 34 percent. The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.
The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe in Bologna,Italy,is the European campus of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),a division of Johns Hopkins University located in Washington,D.C. SAIS degree programs emphasize international economics,international relations,EU policy and global risk with options to specialize in a broad range of other policy areas and geographic regions.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security is an independent,nonprofit organization of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The center works to protect people's health from epidemics and pandemics and ensures that communities are resilient to major challenges. The center is also concerned with biological weapons and the biosecurity implications of emerging biotechnology.
The Hopkins–Nanjing Center,formally the Johns Hopkins University–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies,is an international campus of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and a joint educational venture between Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University that opened in Nanjing,China,in 1986. The center aims to produce graduates who will go on to play an important role in developing the U.S.-China relationship.
Jonathan D. Moreno is an American philosopher and historian who specializes in the intersection of bioethics,culture,science,and national security,and has published seminal works on the history,sociology and politics of biology and medicine. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Lawrence James Haddad,is a British economist whose main research focuses on how to make food systems work better to advance the nutrition status of people globally.
Robert J. Abernethy is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist based in Manhattan Beach,California. He is the founder and president of both American Standard Development Company and Self Storage Management Company.
emerge85,originally known as The Johns Hopkins SAIS-Delma Institute Partnership on Geo-Economic Multiplicity,is a research partnership between the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the UAE-based Delma Institute. The partnership is co-located in Washington,D.C.,and Abu Dhabi.
Adnan A. Hyder is Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Global Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Jeremy Sugarman is an American bioethicist and physician. He is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,the American College of Physicians,the National Academy of Medicine,and the Hastings Center.
Sonia Yris Angell is an American public health figure. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of the Practice of American Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Angell also maintains a clinical professorship of medicine in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2020,after resigning as director of the California Department of Public Health,Angell was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Eftychia ("Effy") Vayena is a Greek and Swiss bioethicist. Since 2017 she has held the position of chair of bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich,ETH Zurich. She is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
Andrew Mertha is an American political scientist and the Inaugural Director of the SAIS China Global Research Center at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. He is a scholar of Chinese and Cambodian politics with a particular emphasis on bureaucracy,institutions,Leninist Party Systems,policymaking and implementation,and China–United States relations. Mertha speaks Khmer,Mandarin,French,and Hungarian. He is one of few American scholars on China-Cambodia relations due to his proficiency in Khmer.
Jessica Wilen Berg is an American attorney and specialist in Public Health (MPH),currently serving as co-Dean at Case Western Reserve University School of Law,the first female co-Dean or Dean in the law school's 129-year history. She is also Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law,Professor in the Departments of Bioethics,and of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the CWRU School of Medicine. She is a reference book author in the area of informed consent. Her scholarly opinion is often reported by institutions and media on ethical aspects iof innovative biomedical procedures.
Sara Naomi Bleich is an American psychologist and professor of public health who is the inaugural Vice Provost for Special Projects at Harvard University. She specializes in diet-related disease and healthcare inequality. She previously served as a White House Fellow during the Presidency of Barack Obama. She was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine.
