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COVID-19 and DC Black Communities: Challenges and Opportunities
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Class of ’60 NHS Alumna Shares Memories of Georgetown and Air Force
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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 necessary, whether there will be a resurgence months from now, and to what extent viral mutations might impact clinical outcomes, among many other critical questions. As the […]
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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 developing a real-time surveillance system. The computer-based system would detect health indicators of the community disease spread early on — before confirmed diagnoses. Public health officials, […]
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Medical Student Presentations Cap Health Justice Week Events
(April 18, 2020) — Georgetown University School of Medicine students in the Health Justice Scholar (HJS) Track celebrated Health Justice Week 2020 from April 6 to 8 with events — held virtually this year — designed to uphold the program’s mission to empower student physicians to be advocates for health justice. The HJS Track is […]
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Georgetown’s José Merino Becomes Editor-In-Chief of the World’s Leading Clinical Neurology Journal
(April 18, 2020) — José G. Merino, MD, MPhil, FAHA, FAAN, professor of neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, became interested in medical journals as a medical student; he later gained experience in peer-reviewing journals as a fellow. Now, he will merge his longtime interest and extensive experience as he begins a 10-year term […]
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NHS Alumnus Contributes to COVID-19 Response at Harborview Medical Center
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NHS Alumna Amid Dallas Hospital COVID-19 Response: ‘I Have Never Loved Nursing More’
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Addressing an Urgent Need: COVID-19 Research at Georgetown
(April 15, 2020) — While the COVID-19 pandemic has presented the medical and scientific community with unrelenting and unparalleled challenges, the unique nature of the virus provides for wide-ranging and potentially impactful areas of scientific exploration and understanding. To that end, Georgetown University Medical Center provided seed money to 15 teams of investigators to better […]
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NHS Alumni Work on the Front Lines of NYC COVID-19 Outbreak
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