Health
Responding to growing national health challenges
Johns Hopkins APL is transforming health care by bringing significant new data analytics and systems engineering capability to the field of medicine that will enhance the nation’s ability to predict, prevent, and detect illness and injury.
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Learn more about Eliminating Forever ChemicalsEliminating Forever Chemicals
Multiple studies have linked PFAS exposure to harmful health effects in humans and animals, and without a natural way to break them down, the chemicals persist in soil and contaminate the environment — including water. APL scientists are developing several technologies to capture and destroy these "forever chemicals." -
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Learn more about Durable and Portable Therapeutics ProductionDurable and Portable Therapeutics Production
APL experts have made significant strides in developing methods for portable production of vaccines and other therapeutics, enabling production on demand in remote locations and during emergency outbreaks. -
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Learn more about Mapping the Brain for Machine LearningMapping the Brain for Machine Learning
APL leads several test and evaluation efforts for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONs) project, launched to develop state-of-the-art machine-learning capabilities by modeling how the brain processes information. -
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Learn more about The Systems Approach to Saving LivesThe Systems Approach to Saving Lives
APL’s thought leaders are stirring discussions on the importance of taking a systems approach to health care. -
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Learn more about Health SurveillanceHealth Surveillance
APL’s leadership in electronic disease surveillance, both at home and abroad, is making a difference on the front lines of protecting the health of a population. -
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Learn more about Army Environmental Health ResearchArmy Environmental Health Research
APL and the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research are developing capabilities to detect, assess, and prevent effects from exposure to toxic materials—focusing especially on ways to prevent acute and chronic health effects through new biological technologies. -
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Learn more about Revolutionizing ProstheticsRevolutionizing Prosthetics
Revolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-natural motor and sensory capability to upper-extremity amputee patients.
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Learn more about Johns Hopkins APL’s Ultracompact, Efficient Cooling Device Earns 2023 R&D 100 AwardPress Release
Aug 23, 2023Johns Hopkins APL’s Ultracompact, Efficient Cooling Device Earns 2023 R&D 100 Award
The Wearable Thin-Film Thermoelectric Cooling (TFTEC) device, developed at APL, was named as a 2023 R&D 100 Awards winner as one of the top 100 revolutionary technologies in the world. -
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Learn more about Designing Conversational AI to Provide Medical Assistance on the BattlefieldNews
Aug 17, 2023Designing Conversational AI to Provide Medical Assistance on the Battlefield
Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL are working on a proof of concept for a conversational artificial intelligence agent that will be able to provide medical guidance to untrained soldiers in plain English, by applying knowledge gleaned from established care procedures. -
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Learn more about Improving Patient Safety Outcomes With Precision MedicineNews
Aug 1, 2023Improving Patient Safety Outcomes With Precision Medicine
A collaboration between Johns Hopkins APL and Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore is applying data science expertise to combat preventable harms in the health care system, using the Precision Medicine Analytics Platform. -
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Learn more about Johns Hopkins APL Restores Cold Sensation in Amputees’ Phantom LimbsNews
Jul 27, 2023Johns Hopkins APL Restores Cold Sensation in Amputees’ Phantom Limbs
APL researchers have developed one of the world’s smallest, most intense refrigeration devices. The adhesive bandage-like device mimics the body’s natural and rapid ability to sense temperature, and bioengineers at the Lab are now using it to help amputees perceive a sense of cold in their phantom limbs. -
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Learn more about Medics and Machines: Developing Robotic Technologies to Provide Assured Care in the FieldNews
Jul 26, 2023Medics and Machines: Developing Robotic Technologies to Provide Assured Care in the Field
Johns Hopkins APL researchers are exploring how new capabilities in artificial intelligence, augmented reality and robotics might support collaborative intervention by teams of medics, AI-based virtual assistants and autonomous robots.
