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Third Interprofessional Education Day Focuses on Implicit Bias, Health Disparities
For the first time since its inception in 2014, Interprofessional Education (IPE) Day attendees were asked to complete three modules of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), a validated instrument that helps uncover individual biases or preferences for specific demographic populations.
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School of Medicine Students Visit White House Medical Unit
While many in the D.C. area were still digging out after a weekend blizzard, several students from Georgetown University School of Medicine were taking a tour of the White House Medical Unit – an experience that was years in the making.
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Understanding resiliencies of healthy aging among HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay or bisexual men in the US
With a five-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Michael Plankey, PhD, is working to identify factors that contribute to healthy aging among gay and bisexual men.
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Georgetown Experts Laud World Health Organization Meeting on Zika Virus
The announcement that the World Health Organization (WHO) will convene an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on the Zika virus Monday comes only a day after two Georgetown experts called on the organization to call such a meeting in a JAMA Viewpoint.
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Lombardi Cancer Center Joins Call for Increased Vaccination Against HPV
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined the other 68 National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated cancer centers in issuing a joint statement urging increased vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Empowering Parents and Health Care Providers to Protect Children from HPV
Sherrie Wallington, PhD, is working to close the knowledge gap about the human papillomavirus by educating parents in the District.
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Taking On A Crisis In D.C. — Oral Health In Underserved Communities
Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, is taking on oral health disparities in D.C., aided by a $1.2 million grant from the George E. Richmond Foundation of Chicago.
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Data-Sharing Technology Enhancing HIV Public Health Action Across Region
An interdisciplinary study published last week in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance outlines how the D.C., Maryland and Virginia health departments, Georgetown and George Washington universities developed a novel privacy-enhanced data-sharing technology to improve HIV surveillance data across the region.
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Georgetown University Oncology Patient Support Delivers Art to Lombardi Patients
Georgetown University Oncology Patient Support connects Lombardi patients with Georgetown undergraduate students who do art projects and other activities to make their stay more comfortable.
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Extending Human Research Protection Standards Globally
Irene Jillson is leading an effort to make online courses on human subjects protection relevant to researchers in Arabic-speaking countries and North Africa
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