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Private, or general aviation, flights are 82 times riskier than commercial airline trips and represent the overwhelming majority of aviation crashes and casualties in the United States. The safety of private flights can and should be addressed, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who identified major factors influencing crash involvement and crash survival and examined possible approaches for improving the safety of private flights.

Nine Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health students traveled to Nicaragua January 1-15, 2007, to establish the Nicaraguan Community Partnership (NCP). The effort, spearheaded by the School’s Master of Public Health (MPH) Program and the J.B. Grant Society, is a collaboration of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Nicaraguan non-government organizations (NGOs).

A study of young adult rats by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health provides evidence that explains exactly how exposure to lead during brain development produces learning deficits.

Thomas Kensler, PhD, professor of environmental health sciences and a renowned cancer researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will receive the 16th annual American Association for Cancer Research-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention.