All Posts: News Release

• 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: faculty honors, nursing, School of 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

• MRI May Lower Breast Cancer Deaths From Variants in Three Genes

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer screening, genetic testing, Georgetown Lombardi

• To Close Racial Health Inequity Chasm, a Comprehensive Audit of Historical Policies, Events and Practices is Needed

  WASHINGTON (February 7, 2022) — A thorough examination of federal as well as local — city, county, and state — historical policies, practices and events is imperative to fully understand why health disparities exist and persist, posits a Georgetown University team of researchers. Writing in the February 2022 “Racism & Health” issue of Health Affairs, […]

  Category: News Release Tags: health disparities, health equity, racial disparities, racial justice, Racial Justice Institute, research, School of Nursing & Health Studies