Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins

08/26/2026

Graham Mooney was interviewed for the JHBSPH podcast Public Health on Call to talk about the life and career of Abel Wolman, an early graduate of Johns Hopkins’ engineering program and professor at the university’s school of public health. Wolman was a Baltimore-born pioneer of water sanitization and infrastructure whose expertise was highly sought after in the US and across the world.

About this episode:   At the turn of the 20th century, waterborne diseases like typhoid and dysentery posed a significant threat to public health, accounting for a large part of infant mortality and overall morbidity. Enter Abel Wolman, an early graduate of Johns Hopkins’ engineering pro...

08/21/2026

Join our own Michael Seminara today at 12pm EDT for a talk on anatomy books in our Historical Collection!

Join Curator Michael Seminara, in the Rare Book Room at the Institute of the History of Medicine for a look through some of the Historical Collection’s most iconic books on anatomy. Beginning in the 16th century with Berengario Da Carpi, Vesalius, and Estienne, we’ll walk through a timeline of a...

08/10/2026

New blog post from the Historical Collection at JHU: Medical Philately – A New Collection https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/08/10/medical-philately-a-new-collection/

07/02/2026

We are hiring for an Associate or Full Professor (Tenure-Track) in History of Medicine: Pre-Modern! Please circulate widely -

06/25/2026

Congratulations to Andrew Kishuni, Julia Cummiskey, Alexandra Phelan, and Yulia Frumer for a winning a NEXUS convening grant for "The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Humanitarian Assistance”, a convening to mobilize the living history of USAID to reimaging the future of U.S humanitarian aid after the ruptures and contractions of the past year and half.

06/22/2026

Congratulations to Sofia Grant, PhD student in History of Medicine, for receiving a 2026 Michael E. DeBakey fellowship from the National Library of Medicine! Sofia will be conducting research for her project “Diagnosing Uncertainty: Non-Specificity, Uncertain Knowledge, and the Management of Autoimmune Diseases Between the Laboratory and the Clinic” as part of her dissertation research on twentieth-century American biomedicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/get-involved/debakey-fellowship.html

06/17/2026

The Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins is excited to be hosting the 18th annual JAS-Med 2026 conference on 9/25-9/26! Founded with the mission of fostering a collegial intellectual community amongst graduate students and providing an engaging forum for graduate research, JAS-Med is proudly student-led and student-organized.

For more information, check out our website: https://jashistofmed.wordpress.com/

06/15/2026

A hearty congratulations to Carter Barnett for winning the 2026 Shyrock Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine for his essay entitled "Constructing the Mission Hospital of Late Ottoman Gaza"!

04/21/2026

Join our wonderful Curator of Rare Books Michael Seminara for a virtual Q&A about the Jacobs Room & Collection this Friday, April 24th. For more details and to register, visit https://events.jhu.edu/form/hah-26-hbjc-v

04/02/2026

RSVP now for the 2026 Aliapoulios Lecture in Hellenic Medicine featuring Dr. Jennifer Stager presenting "How to Mend a Body in Ancient Greece" on Thursday, April 2nd. https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026-aliapoulios-lecture-featuring-dr-jennifer-stager/