All Posts: News Release

• Guidance for Talking To Children Following the Elementary School Shooting in Texas

  WASHINGTON (May 25, 2022) — The news out of Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old man gunned down 19 innocent children and two adults and left several critically injured at an elementary school, has left many parents and caregivers wondering how to talk to their children about their safety. “This tragic event is heartbreaking and terrifying […]

  Category: News Release Tag: child and adolescent mental health

• Georgetown University Announces Dr. Christopher King as Inaugural Dean for School of Health

  WASHINGTON (May 12, 2022) — Georgetown University announced today the appointment of Christopher J. King, Ph.D., MHSc, FACHE, associate professor and chair of the Department of Health Systems Administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS), as dean of its new School of Health when it launches on July 1. “Dr. King has […]

  Category: News Release Tags: new faculty appointment, School of Health, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation Announces $25 Million Commitment to Five Cancer Centers Across America With Goal of Reducing Disparities in Cancer Care in Underserved Communities

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer screening, Georgetown Lombardi, philanthropy, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Higher COVID-19 Death Rates in the Southern U.S. Due to Behavior Differences

  Category: News Release Tags: COVID-19, COVID-19 mortality, epidemiology, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Biological Pathways Found That Drive Genomic Changes and Bone Metastasis in Ewing Sarcoma, a Rare Childhood Cancer

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Ewing sarcoma, Georgetown Lombardi

• New Study Finds Climate Change Could Spark the Next Pandemic

  WASHINGTON (April 28, 2022) — As the Earth’s climate continues to warm, researchers predict wild animals will be forced to relocate their habitats — likely to regions with large human populations — dramatically increasing the risk of a viral jump to humans that could lead to the next pandemic. This link between climate change and […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, climate change, environmental health, global health, pandemic, research, viral transmission

• New Factors That Can Predict Breast Cancer Recurrence Defined

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, conditional cell reprogramming, Georgetown Lombardi

• Georgetown University School of Nursing Dean Dr. Roberta Waite Honored with Excellence in Governance Award

  Category: News Release Tags: Berkley School of Nursing, faculty honors, nursing

• Geoengineering Could Return Risk of Malaria for One Billion People 

  WASHINGTON (April 20, 2022) — Geoengineering the climate would have massive repercussions for the health of billions of people at risk of malaria who live in tropical countries, according to a new finding by scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and colleagues. The study appeared April 20, 2022, in Nature Communications.  This is the first assessment […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Geoengineering, global health, malaria

• Researchers Find Humans Have Given Wild Animals Their Diseases Nearly 100 Times

  WASHINGTON (March 23, 2022) — An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has found that humans might give viruses back to animals more often than previously understood. In a study published March 22 in Ecology Letters (“Assessing the risk of human-to-wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health”), the authors describe nearly […]

  Category: News Release Tags: infectious disease, pandemic, research, SARS-CoV-2, spillback