All Posts: COVID-19
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O’Neill Family Foundation Clinical Simulation Center at NHS Goes Virtual During Pandemic
Category: GUMC Stories
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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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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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Misconceptions About Weather and Seasonality Impact COVID-19 Response
WASHINGTON (August 27, 2020) — Misconceptions about the way climate and weather impact exposure and transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, create false confidence and have adversely shaped risk perceptions, say a team of Georgetown University researchers. “Future scientific work on this politically-fraught topic needs a more careful approach,” write the scientists in […]
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COVID-19 Symptom Tracker Ensures Privacy During Isolation
WASHINGTON (August 13, 2020) — An online COVID-19 symptom tracking tool developed by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center ensures a person’s confidentiality while being able to actively monitor their symptoms. The tool is not proprietary and can be used by entities that are not able to develop their own tracking systems. Identifying and monitoring […]
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Georgetown Applying Patented Technology to Develop Fast and Accurate COVID-19 Test
(August 6, 2020) — After studying the results of a myriad of diagnostic tests used around the world for the virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, Georgetown University Medical Center biochemist Mark Danielsen, PhD, thinks he has a solution for making a better test — one that can deliver faster results and be accurate. It’s a […]
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Georgetown Physician Calls for Formal Inquiry Into U.S. Handling of COVID-19
WASHINGTON (August 5, 2020) — A complete understanding of how the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a public health disaster will require a full investigation akin to the 9/11 Commission, says a Georgetown University physician, writing in a BMJ Opinion published today. The author, Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, is professor of family […]
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Using Zoom, NHS Undergraduates Teach Health Literacy in Alaska Literacy Program
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Clinical Research Staff Rise to the Challenges Posed by Pandemic
(July 31, 2020) — Running clinical research can be complicated under normal circumstances but it’s especially arduous during a pandemic. Despite the difficulties, the clinical research teams at Georgetown have worked tirelessly, remotely and on campus, to continue supporting researchers and study participants. “Our team as a whole really stepped up to do this, and […]
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Get to Know Georgetown’s COVID-19 Researchers
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