Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charity organization founded by former three-term New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, will provide a $300 million grant to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to establish a health initiative aimed at improving public health by providing funding for new students, researchers and practitioners.
According to a statement released by the school, the newly created Bloomberg American Health Initiative will focus on five issues currently affecting public health — drug addition, obesity, gun violence, adolescent health and environmental threats.
“People are living longer lives than ever before in history, thanks in no small part to the pioneering public health work done at Johns Hopkins over the last century,” Bloomberg said in a press release. “But we can and must do better, starting here in the U.S., where life expectancy is lagging behind much of the developed world. By spreading smart public health strategies that save lives and bringing people together to try new approaches, we can make the same strides in the 21st century against health threats like air pollution, gun violence and obesity that we did in the 20th century against polio and other infectious diseases.” For the full article click here
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