5 Questions on the Census
August 11, 2020
It comes around every ten years, but this year, completing the census is even more important given it determines the allocation of funding for public health services and representation in Washington and states across that country, which impacts civil rights issues.
With recent news that The Census Bureau is ending its door-knocking efforts one month earlier than anticipated, we asked Bloomberg Associates’ Rose Gill and Jane Bartman, who work with cities and government leaders to help them best administer the census in their communities, five questions about this year’s census.
Read more
Fifteen Years After Katrina, America’s Levees Are Breaking
August 10, 2020
By Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., President & Founder, Hip Hop Caucus
We need to connect the dots between racial justice and climate justice because our existence is at stake. We cannot breathe. At the Hip Hop Caucus, we’ve created an award-winning platform called Think 100% that tells the stories of climate justice and race through podcasts, film, music, and activism. We need strong partners from the streets to the suites, like Bloomberg Philanthropies, to help us tell these stories and expand people’s understanding of the environment, climate, and race.
Read more
How the arts can improve mental health, especially during the pandemic
August 7, 2020
Given limited options for socializing during quarantine, it makes sense that people are turning to the arts. While the majority of survey respondents have been engaging in arts activities during quarantine about the same amount as usual, another 21% have increased their participation in the arts. Additionally, more than half of respondents indicated that they miss visiting cultural venues and, perhaps surprisingly, that percentage grows among the younger age groups.
Read more
Follow the Data Podcast: How Cities Are Supporting Arts & Culture During COVID-19
August 6, 2020
COVID-19 has affected almost every aspect of life around the world. To slow the spread of the virus, many countries closed their borders and restricted non-essential travel, greatly impacting the global tourism industry and funding for cultural organizations. In London, cultural tourism is worth about 8 billion pounds a year—largely from international visitors. Recent statistics in London indicate that the creative economy will lose 16 billion pounds, and 150,000 jobs, by the end of 2020 alone.
Read more
Follow the Data Podcast: Systemic Racism as a Public Health Issue
July 31, 2020
As the Director of The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and the Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Dr. Lisa Cooper and her team work to make health care institutions more equitable, communities more engaged, and health policies and practices more effective to eliminate disparities in health and health care in Baltimore, the United States, and around the world.
Read more
Leveraging Sports to Drive Academic Success in Under-Resourced Neighborhoods
July 24, 2020
By Mike Hopper and Mariama N’Diaye, Bloomberg Associates
The purpose of the Team Up initiative is to introduce young people to opportunities to pursue a career in sports beyond being an athlete. We shared our vision of developing a program that would partner with major and minor league sports organizations and teams to bring their executives into school classrooms to introduce students to sports jobs that exist off the field.
Read more
Follow the Data Podcast: Training an Army of Contact Tracers
July 24, 2020
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Bloomberg Philanthropies, together with New York State, launched a free online course in order to train an army of contact tracers to reach and assist people who have been exposed to the virus.
The course, called “COVID-19 Contact Tracing,” was spearheaded by Dr. Emily Gurley, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and teaches the fundamentals of interviewing people diagnosed with COVID-19, finding their close contacts who may have been exposed, and providing them with advice and support for self-quarantine.
Read more
Follow the Data Podcast: Identifying Implicit Biases in Cities
July 17, 2020
Rev. Dr. Bryant Marks of The National Training Institute on Race and Equity at Morehouse College recently joined Mariama N’Diaye of our Bloomberg Associates team to discuss what implicit bias training entails, what implicit bias looks like in schools, and how school discipline practices contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline, and shares advice for listeners who may be beginning to identify inequities in their own communities.
Read more
Follow the Data Podcast: The Pandemic’s Effect on Gun Violence
July 10, 2020
Everytown is now the country’s most powerful grassroots advocacy group for common sense gun policies, and the counterweight to the gun lobby. As part of their effort to better understand and reduce gun violence in America, Everytown has a robust research arm, led by Director of Research Sarah Burd-Sharps, that helps inform policymakers, advocates and experts working on the gun violence crisis.
Read more
Follow the Data Podcast: The Data Behind The Pandemic
July 1, 2020
As the Director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Tom Inglesby and his team use research, data, and expert analysis to advise decision makers about public health practices to mitigate the effects of epidemics and disasters.
In this episode, Dr. Inglesby sat down with Bloomberg Philanthropies public health program lead Dr. Kelly Henning to tell us more about how states are looking at data to inform school and office reopenings, whether we’re in the first or second wave of COVID-19, and the power of social media during the pandemic.
Read more