Noreen A Hynes, MD, MPH

• Director, Geographic Medicine Center of the Division of Infectious Diseases
• Medical Director, Tropical Medicine Ambulatory Consultation Service
• Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Travel Health Consultation Service
• Director of Research, Biocontainment Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Associate Medical Director (Infectious Diseases), Biocontainment Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Co-Director, Infectious Disease Concentration, Master of Public Health Program

Dr. Noreen Hynes has over 35 years of medical and public health experience in both international and domestic settings. Her career has encompassed basic and applied research, epidemiology, public health, clinical medicine, and the regulatory aspects of medical countermeasures for emerging infectious diseases and high-consequence pathogens.

Dr. Hynes has been affiliated with The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at the University since 1997. She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and is jointly appointed in the Department of International Health in the School of Public Health. Since 2009, Dr. Hynes has served as the director of the Geographic Medicine Center in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Tropical & Travel Medicine Service, and was the Baltimore Site Director for the CDC-sponsored GeoSentinel Surveillance System for over 10 years.  Dr. Hynes serves as the Associate Medical Director for Infectious Diseases of the Johns Hopkins Hospital BioContainment Unit and as the Director of Research for the Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center

She also serves as the co-director of the Infectious Disease concentration in the Johns Hopkins Master of Public Health degree program.  

Dr. Hynes' research interests focus on infectious diseases at the clinical-public health interface in resource-constrained settings in both tropical and temperate regions. Her research focuses on tropical diseases, including those that are zoonoses or high-consequence pathogens. Her research focuses on these pathogens, including examining deliberate and naturally occurring exposures/outcomes, the epidemiology and control of emerging infectious diseases, and collaboration on vaccine clinical trials conducted by the Center for Immunization Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

• Geographic Medicine Center
• Global Health, Center for

• Hynes NA. Technical factors in assessing the threat of bioterrorist attacks using human vectors of contagious pathogens, in Bale JM. Assessing the Risk of Islamist Terrorists Using Human Vectors to Deploy Contagious Pathogens. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism. Monterey, CA.  2019; pp 251-273

• Flinn JB, Hynes NA, Sauer LM, Maragakis LL, Garabaldi BT. The role of dedicated biocontainment patient care units in preparing for CVOID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks. Infect Control Hosp Epidem. 2021; 42(2):208-211

• Paules CI, Gallagher SK, Rapaka RR, Davey RT, Doernberg SB, Grossberg R, Hynes NA, Ponce P, Short WR, Voell J, Wang J, Yang OO, Wolfe CR, Lye DC, Dodd LE, Benson CA. Remdesivir for the prevention of invasive mechanical ventilation or death in COVID-19 --- A post-hoc analysis of the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial-1 cohort data. Clin Infect Dis 2021 online first (11 Aug 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab695

• Tomashek KM, Mehta AK, Hynes NA. Racial disproportionality in Covid clinical trials. New Eng J Med 2020; 383(25):2487-2488. PMID: 33156581 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2029374

• Whitehead SS, Durbin AP, Pierce KK, Elwood D, McElvany BD, Fraser EA, Carmolli MP, Tibery CM, Hynes NA, et al. In randomized trial, the live attenuated tetravalent dengue vaccine TV003 is well-toleratied and highly immunogenic in subjects with flavivirus exposure prior to vaccination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017; 11(5):e0005584. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005584.eCollection 2017 May.  PMID:28481883

• Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science "For distinguished service to global public health in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases."
• Fellow, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America
• Board of Trustees, Center for Excellence in Education
• Distinguished Service Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
• Secretary's Distinguished Service Award, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
• Vice Presidential Service Medal
• Meritorious Service Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
• Outstanding Service Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
• Commendation Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
• Citation, U.S. Public Health Service
• Crisis Response Award, U.S. Public Health Service): Terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001
• Crisis Response Award, U.S. Public Health Service): Anthrax letter attacks
• Board of Regents Award for the Outstanding Medical Officer Graduate, Uniformed Services University

• Co-director, Infectious Disease Concentration, MPH Program

• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Infectious Diseases Society of America
• American Society of Microbiology
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• International Society of Travel Medicine