October 2022
The Lancet (10/1/22) – “Lasker Awards 2022”
September 2022
Lasker Foundation – “The 2022 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award honors Lauren Gardner (Johns Hopkins University) for creating the Covid-19 Dashboard”
New York Times (9/28/22) – “Lasker Award Honors Development of Noninvasive Prenatal DNA Test”
LA Times (9/28/22) – “This COVID-19 tracker changed how we saw the pandemic. Its creator fears it won’t be useful much longer”
Baltimore Sun (9/28/22) – “Did you click on the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard? After billions of views, the researcher behind it has earned a top prize.”
JAMA Network (9/28/22) – “The COVID-19 Dashboard for Real-time Tracking of the Pandemic”
PNAS (9/28/22) – “QnAs with Lauren M. Gardner: Winner of the 2022 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award”
July 2022
Nature (7/5/22) – “Need web data? Here’s how to harvest them”
March 2022
Nature (3/23/22) – “Lessons from the COVID data wizards”
September 2021
April 2021
Healthywomen (4/15/21 [online]) – “15 Minutes with Dr. Lauren Gardner”
February 2021
Worth (2/18/21 [online]) – “2021 Groundbreaking Women List”
January 2021
The Atlantic (January/February issue [print]; 12/14/20 [online]) – “How Science Beat the Virus and what it lost in the process”
December 2020
Inc. (12/3/20 [online]) – “These 4 Unsung Heroes of the Covid-19 Pandemic Just Might Inspire You”
November 2020
BBC (11/24/20) – “BBC 100 Women 2020”
TIME (11/19/20 [online]) – “The Best Inventions of 2020: 2020’s Go-To Data Source – Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center”
Technical.ly Baltimore (11/16/20) – “The ReaLIST 2020: Meet the 20 most influential technologists in Baltimore”
October 2020
The Baltimore Sun (10/21/20) – “25 Women to Watch 2020”
The Baltimore Sun (10/19/20) – “Meet some of the Baltimore women driving the national response to the coronavirus pandemic”
September 2020
TIME (9/22/20 [online], September 2020 issue [magazine]) – “The 100 Most Influential People of 2020: Lauren Gardner”
August 2020
Fast Company (8/4/20 [online], September 2020 issue [magazine]) – “Johns Hopkins’s COVID-19 dashboard alerted us to trouble ahead. Meet the woman who made it”
July 2020
Technical.ly Baltimore (7/16/20) – “Johns Hopkins’ map won’t be affected as COVID-19 data shifts from CDC”
CNN (7/11/20) – “Johns Hopkins’ dashboard: The people behind the pandemic’s most visited site”
Baltimore Magazine (July 2020) – GameChanger: Lauren Gardner
Newsweek (7/2/20) – “Americans Social Distanced Before They Were Told to, and It Potentially Saved Others”
U.S. News & World Report (7/2/20) – “Americans Started Staying Put Early in the Pandemic, and That May Have Saved Lives”
NBC Nightly News (7/1/20) – “What makes someone a coronavirus super-spreader?”
CNN (7/1/20) – “Americans who stayed home before they were told to saved lives, study finds”
June 2020
The Washington Post (6/29/20) – “Millions track the pandemic on Johns Hopkins’s dashboard. Those who built it say some miss the real story”
Baltimore Business Journal (6/26/20) – “Best in Tech 2020 – Lauren Gardner, Johns Hopkins University”
NSF Rapid Response COVID-19 Podcast (6/25/20) – COVID-19 Dashboard updates the world with critical data
ZDNet (6/12/20) – “How to track the coronavirus: Dashboard delivers real-time view of the deadly virus”
Le Monde (6/6/20) – “Johns Hopkins University, vigie mondiale de l’épidémie due au coronavirus”
May 2020
Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine (Summer 2020) – “Tracking the Coronavirus”
U.S. News and World Report (5/22/20) – “U.S. News Hospital Heroes – Meet the Woman Behind the World’s Most Famous Coronavirus Tracker”
Johns Hopkins University Magazine (Summer 2020) – “Seeing Red”
The Wall Street Journal (5/9/20) – “How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus”
The Atlantic (5/8/20) – “You’ll Probably Never Know If You Had the Coronavirus in January”
April 2020
NPR (4/13/20) – “Mapping COVID-19: Millions Rely On Online Tracker Of Cases Worldwide”
The New York Times (4/7/20) – “Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Global Outbreak”
Nature Index (4/7/20) – “Behind the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus dashboard”
The Wall Street Journal (4/6/20) – “Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply, as U.S. Braces for Most Challenging Days Ahead”
Science (4/6/20) – “‘Every day is a new surprise.’ Inside the effort to produce the world’s most popular coronavirus tracker”
CGTN: China Global TV Network (4/4/20) – “Billions are on this COVID-19 site, we talked to the guy who built it”
CNN (4/4/20) – “Most people recover from Covid-19. Here’s why it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how many”
March 2020
PBS News Hour (3/22/20) – “What trends are researchers seeing with the coronavirus?”
The Philadelphia Inquirer (3/19/20) – “Johns Hopkins coronavirus dashboard offers a real-time window on a global pandemic”
CSPAN (3/6/2020) – Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Briefing
USA Today (3/2/20) – “Coronavirus, explained: everything to know about COVID-19, the deadly virus alarming the world”
Women’s Agenda (3/1/20) – “Meet some of the women trying to beat the spread of coronavirus”
February 2020
Scientific American (2/13/20) – “Here’s How Computer Models Simulate the Future Spread of New Coronavirus”
January 2020
CNN (1/29/20) – “This map tracks the coronavirus in real time”
Vox (1/29/20) – “A coronavirus outbreak is spreading quickly. Here’s what you need to know.”
Washington Post (1/29/20) – “Fears of coronavirus infection have university officials responding quickly”
U.S. News & World Report (1/28/20) – “Tracking the Coronavirus in Real Time”
Newsweek (1/28/20) – “China Coronavirus Outbreak Updates Can Now Be Tracked Live with This Dashboard”
Baltimore Sun (1/27/20) – “As first Maryland patient is tested for new coronavirus, response will be based on past outbreaks“