Turning Points
Four defining moments in the history of the Bloomberg School
By Karen Kruse Thomas • Illustration by Dung Hoang
Health and Humanity: A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935–1985 will be published in June by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Here, author Karen Kruse Thomas, PhD, gives an exclusive preview, having chosen these four excerpts from among the book’s 13 chapters as the most defining moments in the Bloomberg School’s mid-20th-century history.