![Health Engineering Analytics Lab](/sites/default/files/2023-01/IMG_Hero_Impact_Health.jpg)
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.
Related Projects
![APL is developing environmental risk assessment tools that can be readily integrated into the Nett Warrior combat situational awareness platform. (U.S. Army)](/sites/default/files/2022-12/IMG_Projects_Army_Environmental_Health_Research.jpg)
Army 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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Durable 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.
![James Johnson and Danielle Nachman in APL’s PFAS research laboratory.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20221101_image2_lg.jpeg)
Eliminating 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.”
![A myESSENCE dashboard example using simulated data.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/IMG_Projects_ESSENCE.jpg)
Health 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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Mapping 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.
![Johnny Matheny uses APL's Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) to take a drink](/sites/default/files/2023-01/IMG_Hero_Revolutionizing_Prosthetics_5D1_8601_1.jpg)
Revolutionizing 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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The Systems Approach to Saving Lives
APL’s thought leaders are stirring discussions on the importance of taking a systems approach to health care.
Related News
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Press Release
Jul 23, 2024
Johns Hopkins APL’s Burke Selected for Prestigious Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
APL computational physicist and aerospace engineer Paul Burke will join some of the country’s most promising early-career engineers to discuss pioneering research and technical advancements at the National Academies Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
![Render of TEAPOT, a telehealth suite developed by Johns Hopkins APL researchers. This composite image shows two people on a video call. On their screens, there is a chart highlighting mood.](/sites/default/files/2024-05/20240528-TEAPOT-Render.jpg)
News
May 28, 2024
Bringing Objective Digital Measures to Psychiatric Care
By harnessing recent technological breakthroughs in physiological monitoring and machine learning, researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, in collaboration with psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, have made significant strides toward creating objective digital measures for assessing and tracking mental health.
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Feature Story
May 21, 2024
Into Vanishing Ice
The melting Arctic is creating new trade, economic and operational opportunities — but also new challenges that could threaten the U.S. border and the region’s fragile ecosystem. Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL are pooling their expertise and established experience in materials, modeling, AI and sensing to develop the technology and knowledge for a sustainable and lasting foothold in this rapidly changing region.
![Combat medics treat a notional casualty during a demonstration of lifesaving care](/sites/default/files/2023-07/20230726-Medic-Machine-3.jpg)
Press Release
May 14, 2024
Fast Company Honors Johns Hopkins APL Innovation as ‘World Changing Idea’
An innovative new capability being developed by APL that combines the abilities of human medics with virtual and robotic assistants has been recognized with an honorable mention in the Rapid Response category of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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News
Apr 18, 2024
Johns Hopkins APL Tools Drive Insight and Decision-Making in Ebola Outbreak Response
In a recent scientific paper published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, researchers harnessed tools developed by APL to shed light on the origins of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.