All Posts: Center for Global Health Science and Security
20 Articles
- News Release
Georgetown Researchers Launch Online Library Chronicling 25 Years of Pandemic Preparedness Policy
WASHINGTON (January 12, 2021) — Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) today announced the launch of the most comprehensive collection…
January 12, 2021
- News Release
Georgetown’s Rebecca Katz Named Advisor on Biden Coronavirus Task Force
WASHINGTON (November 9, 2020) — Georgetown University Medical Center’s Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, has been…
November 9, 2020
- News Release
Georgetown Global Health Center Issues Pandemic Preparedness Report and COVID-19 Lessons
WASHINGTON (September 14, 2020) — In a new report commissioned by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), Georgetown global health experts say the success of any…
September 14, 2020
- News Release
A Global Plan for Parasite Conservation
Parasites are unseen heroes that maintain ecosystem stability; they are scarcely studied and highly threatened by global change, and now there is a global plan to conserve them. …
August 1, 2020
- News Release
New COVID-19 Policy Mapping Tool and Database Released to Help Inform Decision-making
WASHINGTON (July 16, 2020) — Amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and in anticipation of outbreaks intensifying over the summer, the experts behind COVID-Local.org have launched…
July 16, 2020
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Georgetown Global Health Experts Provide Guidance on COVID-19 at Protests
WASHINGTON (June 11, 2020) — As protests against racial injustice continue around the United States and around the world, the Center for Global Health Science and Security …
June 11, 2020
- GUMC Stories
Georgetown Global Health Experts Apply Past Lessons to COVID-19
(April 21, 2020) — As COVID-19 cases continue to spread around the globe, there is still much to be understood: how long drastic “social distancing” measures will be…
April 21, 2020
- GUMC Stories
Preparing for a Second Wave of COVID-19 With Real-Time Surveillance
(April 21, 2020) — To avoid depending on COVID-19 testing in the event of a second wave of illness in the U.S., two Georgetown University global health researchers are…
April 21, 2020
- News Release
COVID-19 Frontline Guide for Local Decision-Makers
Webinar on Monday, March 30, to Review Guide and Actions WASHINGTON (March 24, 2020) — Successful suppression of COVID-19 in the United States will require urgent and decisive…
March 24, 2020
- GUMC Stories
Biosafety in Research and Cura Personalis
(October 24, 2019) — “When they work well, no one knows they’re there.” That’s how Julie Fischer, PhD, describes programs that protect biomedical scientists from the…
October 24, 2019