Follow the Data Podcast: Virtual College Advising – Does It Work?
September 14, 2020
While heading back to school during the pandemic is anxiety-inducing for students, parents, and educators, this fall can be particularly stressful for high school students applying to college, as the coronavirus has upended many aspects of the college application process.
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Follow the Data Podcast: The 9/11 Memorial Glade: A Tribute to Strength
August 28, 2020
In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, support flooded in from across the country to drive the recovery effort in New York, and beyond. Since then, hundreds of thousands of first responders, recovery workers, and community members have gotten sick and many have passed away from exposure to toxins at the recovery site. To recognize the sacrifice, loss and continuing effort of those who responded to rebuild the community, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum created a physical space on the memorial site, called the Memorial Glade.
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Reopening Culture During the Pandemic
August 25, 2020
As the crisis has evolved, some cities and states have begun to allow some venues to reopen – New York City museums began reopening just this week – with health precautions in place. Arts institutions across the country are rising to the challenge, employing nimble and thoughtful practices for offering vibrant cultural experiences while keeping visitors and staff safe.
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Follow the Data Podcast: Is It Safe to Reopen Schools?
August 21, 2020
On this episode, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, where she leads research partnerships with public health practitioners in order to document their learnings and improve our readiness for large and challenging outbreaks. She also co-wrote a New York Times op-ed earlier this summer, called “We Have to Focus on Opening Schools, Not Bars.”
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Follow the Data Podcast: Your COVID-19 Vaccine Questions, Answered
August 14, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live – and a vaccine is our best hope to resume normal life. While studies of possible COVID-19 vaccines continue, questions emerge: How close are we to a vaccine? Should children, pregnant women, and the elderly be included in vaccine trials? How successful does a vaccine have to be in order to be considered effective?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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