All Posts: 2019 Novel Coronavirus

• Georgetown Lombardi Launches COVID-19 Antibody Study in People with Cancer

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, cancer, cancer research, COVID-19, Georgetown Lombardi, SARS-CoV-2

• Top Global Health Experts Release Action Plan: COVID-19: A Global Pandemic Demands a Global Response

  WASHINGTON (April 23, 2020) — Some of the world’s foremost experts in global health say a comprehensive global response can defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, but the time to act is now. In a comprehensive white paper (COVID-19: A Global Pandemic Demands a Global Response) available today on the Georgetown University website, Georgetown professor and the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, big data, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, COVID-19, global health, machine learning, pandemic

• 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 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, Center for Global Health Science and Security, COVID-19, Ebola, global health, HIV, School of Medicine

• 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, […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Center for Global Health Science and Security, COVID-19, global health

• NHS Alumnus Contributes to COVID-19 Response at Harborview Medical Center

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• 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 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, COVID-19, research innovation

• NHS Alumni Work on the Front Lines of NYC COVID-19 Outbreak

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• NHS Alumna Helps Lead COVID-19 Response at Community Health Centers Network

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• NHS Student Contributes to National Guard’s COVID-19 Response in Florida

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, coronavirus, COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies