Institutes & Centers
This institute focuses on evidence-based solutions to public health challenges worldwide.
The Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins has been ranked #1 in this category for U.S. higher ed for over 40 years
What is research & development spending?
BDPs are joint appointments between these two types of academic units.
What are schools and departments
This annual OVPR award provides $75,000 to early-career faculty to pursue bold, high-risk research.
What is the Catalyst Award?
In the heart of campus where four brick buildings stand guard around a central green, find the quadrangle named after a benefactor whose generosity helped shape JHU. Look for the building in this quad that houses the admissions office, Krieger Hall and Gilman Hall.
The Keyser Quad
This center works at the intersection of climate and health, and is named after a former NYC mayor.
The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation
This COVID-19 resource dashboard became the global standard for tracking the pandemic.
What is the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center?
This BDP cluster focuses on the ethical, legal, and social implications of AI.
What is the AI and Society cluster?
This program offers grants of up to $100,000 to interdisciplinary faculty teams from different divisions to launch collaborative research projects.
What is the Discovery Award?
Six stories underground and full of books—this is where Hopkins goes to hit the books and dig deep into research.
The Milton S. Eisenhower Library
This applied physics research center in Laurel, MD, supports national security and space innovation.
Applied Physics Laboratory
Hopkins researchers made headlines by helping develop this medical imaging technology.
What is MRI? Or what is CT scanning?
The BDP program is a signature initiative supported by this Johns Hopkins leader.
Who is Michael Bloomberg?
This team in the OVPR provides strategic feedback to strengthen major center or institute proposals before submission to federal funders
What is the Research Development Team
Abstract forms that twist and shine, tucked beside the library spine. A hidden spot for quiet eyes—what do these shapes symbolize?
Levi Sculpture Garden
This institute is co-led by the BDP program and works to reimagine planetary health systems.
Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health
This field of research uses genetic editing tools like CRISPR to study disease pathways.
What is genomics or genetic engineering?
This BDP cluster investigates how chemical modifications to DNA and chromatin structure influence gene expression—shaping everything from development to disease.
What is the Epigenome Sciences cluster?
This initiative offers editorial support for grant proposals and journal articles at no charge to faculty.
What is the Editorial Assistance Services Initiative (EASI)
Not sand, but students rest their feet, where hammocks hang and classmates meet. A grassy spot to laugh or teach.
Wyman Quad / The Beach
Known by its acronym, this major data-science-focused effort supports artificial intelligence and discovery innovation at scale.
DSAI – Data Science and AI Institute
.JHU is the managing partner of this space telescope program, responsible for stunning deep-space images and research.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This BDP cluster explores how emerging technologies—like AI, biotech, and robotics—can be developed and governed in ways that promote equity, public trust, and societal benefit.
What is the Promoting and Governing Technological Innovation cluster?
This program brings the benefits of its discoveries to the world through the development, dissemination, and promotion of accessible, engaging, and strategic content for diverse audiences.
What is Wavelengths
It’s not a painting, but it is a Da Vinci. Find the high-tech machine that simulates surgery—where engineering meets medicine in robotic form.
Hackerman Hall