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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 named as an advisor for President-elect Joe Biden’s new coronavirus task force. Katz has been part of a team advising Biden on COVID-19 for the last several months along with […]
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Study of Reaching and Grasping with Hand or Foot Reveals Novel Brain Insights
WASHINGTON (October 26, 2020) — People born without upper limbs who use their feet to reach for an item engage the same area in the brain that people with hands use to reach for something, report Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. The finding, published October 26, 2020, in PNAS, advances the basic science of brain […]
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Answering 7 Key Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines
WASHINGTON (October 16, 2020) — When a vaccine to reduce the risk of getting COVID-19 becomes available, clinicians will be critical in helping people make decisions about whether or not to receive the vaccine. Writing in a JAMA Viewpoint published today, three top vaccine experts offer key questions clinicians might expect from patients, and guidance […]
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Immunotherapy Combo Halts Rare, Stage 4 Sarcoma in Teen
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Top Vaccine Experts Join Forces to Provide Objective Perspective and Analysis as COVID-19 Vaccine Data Emerge
The COVID-19 Vaccine Analysis Team (COVAT) also offers weekly media availability. WASHINGTON (October 12, 2020) — At a time of growing skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines, an ensemble of some of America’s most trusted vaccine scientific experts has launched the COVID-19 Vaccine Analysis Team, or COVAT, to provide rapid and objective expert analysis and communications on […]
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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 effort to redress pandemic preparedness failures demonstrated by COVID-19 requires a re-centering of governance that would include greater accountability, transparency, equity, participation and the rule of law. The report, […]
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Study Suggests Unconscious Learning Underlies Belief in God
WASHINGTON (September 9, 2020) — Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns, an ability called implicit pattern learning, are likely to hold stronger beliefs that there is a god who creates patterns of events in the universe, according to neuroscientists at Georgetown University. Their research, reported in the journal Nature Communications, is the first to […]
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Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres to Understand Language, Unlike Adults
WASHINGTON (September 7, 2020) — Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their brain’s two hemispheres, youngsters use both the right and left hemispheres to do the same task. […]
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Georgetown’s Mark Dybul Named to Independent Panel Examining WHO’s Response to COVID-19
WASHINGTON (September 3, 2020) — Ambassador Mark Dybul, MD, professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and co-director of its Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, has been named to a prestigious panel tasked with examining the World Health Organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The co-chairs for The Independent Panel for Pandemic […]
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National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) and Georgetown University Commit to Reducing Health Care Quality Competency Variability
CHICAGO & WASHINGTON (August 28, 2020) — As the need for waste reduction and improved patient outcomes increases, the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) and Georgetown University Medical Center recognize a coordinated, competent workforce begins in the classroom. The two entities have collaborated to hardwire content aligned with NAHQ’s industry-standard Healthcare Quality Competency Framework […]
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