Equal Access in Science & Medicine

Johns Hopkins names first executive director for Student Disability Services

Catherine Axe joins the university March 11 from a similar role at Brown. Read the Hub article here.

Disabled Researchers Are Vital to the Strength of Science

Woman using power wheelchair and reading book at library

Johns Hopkins University graduate student Erica Avery argues that scientific institutions need to work toward a more inclusive environment for disabled scientists in this Scientific American article.

Clearly a Better Mask

Alums Allysa Dittmar and Aaron Hsu are reinventing the surgical mask to make quality health care accessible. Read the Johns Hopkins magazine article here.

Novelist Porochista Khakpour explores a lifetime of feeling unwell in her debut memoir ‘Sick’

Read the Johns Hopkins Magazine article here.

‘(Dis)Ability’ anthology, compiled and edited by Hopkins senior

Emily Dorffer, a Johns Hopkins undergraduate who has cerebral palsy, explored stories by and about people with disabilities in a short story anthology. Read the Hub article here.

I Use a Wheelchair. And Yes, I’m Your Doctor.

yellow and black block print of woman using wheelchair

Cheri A. Blauwet (@CheriBlauwetMD), an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, discusses her experience as a disabled doctor in this New York Times Opinion.

Schooled (and steeled) by invisible illness

Johns Hopkins University graduate student Erica Avery discusses her experience with fibromyalgia and graduate school in this ASBMB Today opinion piece.