The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has again been recognized as the top public health school in the nation by its peer schools and programs, as reported by U.S. News & World Report. The Bloomberg School has held the #1 spot since the rankings began in 1994.
This year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings include 224 schools and programs of public health accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. The U.S. News ranking survey, which is sent to leaders of the accredited schools and programs, is based on a single question about the academic quality of each public health school or program. The previous rankings were published in 2025.
“It is an honor to be recognized by our outstanding peer schools and programs, who share our commitment to improving health for people everywhere,” said Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH, who became dean of the School in August 2025. “I am deeply proud to lead the Bloomberg School community, especially during this defining season for our field. As we look to the challenges ahead, we will push forward with clarity of purpose, agility in response to change, and a deep commitment to our values and mission.”
The Bloomberg School has also been named by its peers as leading the fields of:
- #1 Biostatistics
- #1 Epidemiology
- #1 Health Policy and Management
- #2 Social and Behavioral Sciences
- #3 Environmental Health Sciences
Additionally, the Master of Health Administration program was rated #5 and has been consistently ranked in the top 10 since 2015. The MHA program has been a CAHME-accredited program since 1992.
Established at Johns Hopkins University more than a century ago, the Bloomberg School is the nation’s oldest and largest school of public health. It currently instructs 2,900 students and employs nearly 900 primary faculty members and more than 1,400 staff. With more than 29,000 alumni in 120 countries, the School has a unique impact and reach.
Here are some highlights from the past year:
- The Bloomberg American Health Initiative grew to 447 Bloomberg Fellows and 358 collaborating organizations who are addressing the most pressing health challenges in the U.S.
- The School created a new Dean’s Fellowship in Public Health Leadership that offers financial support, applied work experience, peer learning, and formal leadership training to standout students.
- The School launched new concentrations in Indigenous Health for the MPH and DrPH programs. MPH students can enroll in this concentration later this year, and DrPH applicants will be able to apply to the concentration starting in August.
- The Bloomberg School’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), under the new director Brian Klaas, will advance efforts to reach new learners through continuing and executive education, enhance the use of AI and technology in the classroom, and ensure equitable support for all learners.
- The School continues to respond to the evolving needs of its student body and the public health workforce by providing new offerings, from a peer coaching program to courses on the effective, ethical use of AI.
- The School remains on the cutting edge of research across a breadth of public health topics, sharing important new findings in the past year on everything from cannabis use disorder to Affordable Care Act subsidies to air pollutants in Baltimore.
- The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute is celebrating 25 years of discovery and field research this year.
- The School’s International Vaccine Access Center continues to provide open-access data on vaccine introduction and use around the world and has developed online state-by-state resources on the extent to which children are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases across the United States.
- The School’s Center for Health Security launched Strengthening Health Systems Through Innovation, Engagement, and Leadership in Disasters (SHIELD) Initiative to offer actionable plans, policies, and tools that strengthen public health preparedness and response.
- The School launched a rural health initiative to explore the best approaches to serve populations in the rural United States and an Innovation Translation Council to help investigators sustain and scale long-term solutions based on their research, accelerating our ability to turn evidence into action.
- The School devoted its spring magazine issue to original reporting on early funding cuts to global health and USAID and their implications.
