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• Howard and Georgetown Universities To Launch Joint Medical Humanities Center Funded by Mellon Foundation Grant

  WASHINGTON (January 19, 2023) — The Mellon Foundation has awarded a 3.5 year, $3 million grant to support a collaboration between Georgetown University and Howard University in the establishment of a center for medical humanities. The Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice will focus on reducing health disparities in Washington through leveraging methods […]

  Category: News Release Tags: collaboration, Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justic, health justice, interdisciplinary programs, medical humanities

• Medical Center Announces Strategic Changes to Research and Biomedical Education

  As Georgetown University Medical Center moves to more strategically align research and biomedical education, as well as expand critical external research-related relationships, Moshe Levi, MD, has been named the medical center’s Chief Science Officer for Research Development and Anna Riegel, PhD, has been named Interim Vice President for Biomedical Education and Research.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical education, biomedical research, collaboration, Health Sciences Strategy Initiative, research, research innovation

• New Georgetown Program Synergizes Interdisciplinary Training in the Sciences

  (January 21, 2022) — The National Institutes of Health has awarded Georgetown University a highly competitive and prestigious training grant intended to invigorate the workforce and inspire younger students from diverse backgrounds to pursue doctorate degrees in biomedical sciences.     The new program, known as the Georgetown University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD), will train […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical education, Biomedical Graduate Education, collaboration, diversity, graduate education, interdisciplinary programs

• GUMC Community Meeting Focuses on Racial Justice, ‘Our Highest Priority’

  (February 26, 2021) — Students, staff, faculty and Georgetown University leadership gathered virtually for the first GUMC Community Meeting of 2021 that carried a singular focus: racial justice. “We have devoted our time together to this topic because the journey toward and the achievement of equity and racial justice at all levels of our community […]

  Categories: GUMC Stories, Special Stories Tags: collaboration, Georgetown Lombardi, GUMC community meeting, racial equity, racial justice, Racial Justice Initiative, racism, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Two Georgetown Centers Find Unexpected Synergy in Exploring Pandemic’s Impact in Latin America

  (February 26, 2021) — Proving that scholarly sparks can fly in unexpected ways, a cross-campus collaboration between Georgetown University Medical Center and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is applying a holistic new lens to COVID-19. Drawing on each center’s unique expertise, undergraduate and graduate students from the Center for Global Health Science […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, collaboration, COVID-19, global health, Latin America, public health