All Posts: Center for Global Health Science and Security

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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

News Release

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