The University of California,San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University today announced the launch of the Opioid Industry Documents Archive,a digital repository of publicly disclosed documents from recent judgments,settlements,and ongoing lawsuits concerning the opioid crisis.The documents come from government litigation against pharmaceutical companies,including opioid manufacturers and distributors related to their contributions to the deadly epidemic,as well as litigation taking place in federal court on behalf of thousands of cities and counties in the United States.The documents in the archive include emails,memos,presentations,sales reports,budgets,audit reports,Drug Enforcement Administration briefings,meeting agendas and minutes,expert witness reports,and depositions of drug company executives.The Opioid Industry Documents Archive leverages extraordinary expertise within UCSF and Johns Hopkins University in library science,information technology,and digital archiving.It also relies on scholarship focused on many dimensions of the opioid epidemic,ranging from the history of medicine to pharmaceutical policy to clinical care.Key organizations at UCSF involved include the Philip R.Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies;Department of Clinical Pharmacy;Department of Humanities and Social Sciences;Department of Family and Community Medicine;and Library.From Johns Hopkins University,the project involves the Bloomberg School of Public Health‘s Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness;Welch Medical Library;Institute of the History of Medicine;and Sheridan Libraries‘Digital Research and Curation Center. 查看详细>>

A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-led mission to explore electric currents in Earth‘s atmosphere that link the aurora to our planet‘s magnetosphere has been selected by NASA to move forward to ascheduled launch in 2024.The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer,EZIE,is aset of three small spacecraft that will study the auroral electrojet,which are electrical currents flowing about 60 to 90 miles above the poles that link the beautiful aurora to the Earth‘s magnetosphere,and which responds to solar activity and other drivers.The interaction of the magnetosphere and the solar wind—one piece of Earth‘s complicated space weather system—compresses the Sun-facing side of the magnetosphere and drags out the nighttime side of the magnetosphere into what is called a"magnetotail."Auroral electrojets are generated by changes in the structure of the magnetotail.The same space weather phenomena that power the fascinating aurora can cause interference with radio and communication signals and utility grids on Earth‘s surface,and damage to spacecraft in orbit."Despite decades of research,we still don‘t understand the basic configuration of the electrical currents which are central to the interactions between Earth and the surrounding space,"said Jeng-Hwa(Sam)Yee,chief scientist in Earth Science at APL and principal investigator for the mission."This is aproblem of universal importance since it applies to any magnetized body such as Mercury,Saturn and Jupiter—but it also has practical importance since these currents have aprofound impact on our technologies in space and here on Earth." 查看详细>>

Johns Hopkins University plans to establish auniversitywide body to advise President Ronald J.Daniels on the strength of tenure cases forwarded to him for consideration,a change that will foster consistency in academic standards and decision-making across disciplines and one that brings JHU in line with how tenure decisions are handled at peer institutions.On Friday,the Board of Trustees unanimously endorsed the proposal.The 14-member Tenure Advisory Committee,or TAC,will be chaired by the provost and made up of full professors from each of the university‘s tenure-granting schools.The TAC will review materials from school-level recommendations and advise the president as to whether the committee does or does not support the recommendation.The TAC will also advise on school-level tenure denials that are appealed to the provost.Presently,tenure recommendations are forwarded to the president by school-level academic councils,each of which approaches the process differently and applies its own governance and weighting of factors."I am confident that the Tenure Advisory Committee will further amplify faculty perspectives and contribute positively to our university‘s shared governance on tenure matters,"Daniels said in an email to university faculty on Friday.Changes to the tenure process were recommended by the Faculty Advisory Committee on Tenure,or FACT,charged in April with assessing the value of creating auniversity-level tenure committee and making recommendations for its composition and procedures.The group‘s final report is the culmination of nine months of extensive research,consultation,deliberation,and revision. 查看详细>>

When data science unites successfully with city policy,the results are abounty of practical and even life-saving solutions to urban challenges.But to get there,the first step is reaching across agreat gulf:the language barrier between academia and government,experts said during aJohns Hopkins symposium Tuesday."An awful lot of researchers don‘t realize the extent to which their vocabulary has become largely unintelligible to normal human beings,"said Alan Mallach,senior fellow of the national nonprofit Center for Community Progress who previously served as housing chief for Trenton,New Jersey.He delivered akeynote address at the event."The onus is really on the research and academic community,"he said,"to reach out to the world of practice and demonstrate that they can be useful and productive and trusted."Hosted by the Institute for Data Intensive Science and Engineering,the inaugural symposium,titled"Urban Spaces in Baltimore:Data Science in the City,"highlighted several productive research partnerships between Johns Hopkins and Baltimore City designed to address challenges such as HIV/AIDS,blighted properties,and the effects of climate change. 查看详细>>

A new collaboration among 10 city hospitals,Baltimore City government,and Health Care for the Homeless will provide permanent housing and supportive care for 200 individuals and families in Baltimore who are homeless or at risk of being homeless.President,The Johns Hopkins Hospital Under the initiative,The Johns Hopkins Hospital,Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center,and other city hospitals will help fund the intensive care and assistance programs that can help prevent areturn to homelessness—and likely reduce participants‘need for emergency health care. 查看详细>>