Johns ÎÚŃ»´«Ă˝ Wins 8 Anthem Awards
Winning work spans reproductive health, tobacco control, Black maternal health, mental health, and more.

Teams across the Johns ÎÚŃ»´«Ă˝, including the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, and the Office of External Affairs, have together won eight . Presented by the Webbys, the Anthem Awards celebrate purpose and mission-driven work from people, companies, and organizations worldwide.
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
The won a for its project, which revamped the “sales funnel” concept—a traditional private sector strategy that maps a customer’s journey from awareness to action—into a new framework that promotes greater use of technical evidence and knowledge in family planning and reproductive health programming. CCP was also chosen as the winner in a Community Voice process where anyone could vote for their favorite project from a list of finalists. .
Institute for Global Tobacco Control
The Institute for Global Tobacco Control won a for , a study that monitored and reported on the specific marketing tactics and frequency by which multinational tobacco companies target youth worldwide. Conducted in partnership with the , the study represents the most expansive analysis of point-of-sale cigarette advertising in low- and middle-income countries to date.
Public Health On Call Podcast
The Public Health On Call podcast won a for its episode , in which Helene Hedian, MD, a Johns Hopkins physician who provides gender-affirming care, describes the dehumanizing aspects of anti-trans legislation and the impacts these bills could have on patients’ daily lives and overall health.
The podcast also won a for its three-part documentary-style series, How Can We Solve the Black Maternal Health Crisis? Through in-depth interviews with top clinicians, advocates, policy experts, education reformers, and Black birthing people, the series explores the historical roots of the crisis, policy efforts to improve maternal health outcomes, and barriers to achieving them.
In addition, Public Health On Call won a for its work overall. The podcast’s 700+ episodes have been listened to or downloaded more than 11 million times across platforms, with its five most listened-to episodes garnering over 30,000 downloads each.
Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine
magazine won a for its feature story , which explores the untold injury inflicted on Ukrainian’s mental health by Russia’s invasion. This story elevates the voices of Ukrainian people who administer and receive mental health treatment while illustrating an approach that can be applied in other conflict and humanitarian settings.
The magazine also won a for its special sections on and . Across 50+ pages, these two sections explored how violations of human rights erode human health and illuminated connections between health and sexual and reproductive care, the plight of incarcerated pregnant people, the stigma endured by transgender and nonbinary people, and the impacts of reproductive coercion and stigma.
The magazine won a for , a feature story that documents the reach and impact of attacks on health care through interviews with people working for change: health ministers, policy experts, and Syrian physicians.
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