Writings

When I served as the dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto—Canada’s most selective law school—I would be asked every so often by one of our alumni what preference their children would enjoy when applying. The answer I...

Ronald J. Daniels is the president of Johns Hopkins University.  The impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill have been a crash course on the inner workings of constitutional democracy. As historian and journalist Yoni Appelbaum said...

Since the end of World War II, the United States’ preeminence in biomedical research has been widely recognized. There are a number of features of the US system that are responsible for its success, but surely one of the most important was...

We are proud and privileged to call Baltimore home. Baltimore is a city of creativity, optimism, and determination. Home to leading public and private research universities, world-class medical institutions, and a diverse business community...

Ronald J. Daniels is the president of Johns Hopkins University. “Prime Minister Orban has murdered my institution. He has ripped it from its historical and geographic context, and stripped it of its identity. . . . He has consciously...

This past spring, the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget had little good news for the nation’s biomedical research enterprise. Prominent among areas targeted for deep cuts, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faced...

Ronald J. Daniels is the president of Johns Hopkins University. This op-ed is adapted from a letter to Hopkins students. Last fall, on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, where I serve as president, I happened to overhear a conversation...

REBECCA BLANK, RONALD J. DANIELS, GARY GILLILAND, AMY GUTMANN, SAMUEL HAWGOOD, FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI, MARTHA E. POLLACK, VINCENT PRICE, L. RAFAEL REIF, AND MARK S. SCHLISSEL The biomedical research enterprise finds itself in a moment of...

By Ronald J. Daniels and Michael Trebilcock There's no way to stop globalization or technological progress. Washington should instead focus on helping industrial workers to adapt. If Donald Trump was consistent about one thing on the campaign...

By Daniel Webster and Ronald Daniels Daniel Webster is a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. Ronald...