All Posts: Center for Global Health Practice and Impact
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Georgetown University Formally Launches Global Health Institute; Dr. Deus Bazira Appointed Inaugural Director
Georgetown University today formally announced the Georgetown Global Health Institute (GHI) and the new appointment of its inaugural director, Deus Bazira, DrPH, MPH, MBA, BPharm.
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UNICEF Award to CGHPI Supports COVID-19 Vaccination in Eswatini
(January 6, 2023) — Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Practice and Impact-Eswatini (CGHPI-E) continues its COVID-19 vaccination work with the support of a new UNICEF award. Its new project addresses vaccine hesitancy through targeted and differentiated programming and communication campaigns at the community level in the Manzini and Lubombo regions of Eswatini. In March 2021, […]
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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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Statement by the Honorable Mark Dybul, MD, to Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
June 30, 2020 Statement, as Submitted, by the Honorable Mark Dybul, MDProfessor of Medicine and Co-Director, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, Georgetown University Medical Center Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: COVID-19 and US International Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response Chairman Risch, Ranking Member Menendez and members of the Committee: It is […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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