All Posts: environmental health

• 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

• School of Medicine Adds Environmental Health and Medicine Track

  (April 22, 2022) — Health care providers will increasingly encounter patients who have been affected by environmental factors as the effects of climate change grow, including climate migration and expanding infectious diseases. With the new Environmental Health and Medicine longitudinal academic track, Georgetown medical students now have the option to receive additional training to address […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: environmental health, Environmental Health and Medicine longitudinal academic track, medical education, School of Medicine, sustainability

• Children’s Health and Environment Center Receives Renewed Funding

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: children's health, environmental health, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Exposure to Environmental PCBs Impairs Brain Function in Mice

  CHICAGO (October 22, 2019) — Human-made toxic chemicals that linger indefinitely in the environment disrupt the performance of critical helper cells in the mouse brain, leading to impaired function over long-term exposures, say neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center. Their study, believed to be the first to test polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in astrocytes — cells […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, environmental health, environmental toxins, neuroscience, PCBs

• Research In A Minute: Laura Anderko, PhD, RN

  (April 26, 2019) — Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, holds the Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Chair in Values Based Health Care at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. She is a professor and director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (MACCHE) and a scholar in the fields of epidemiology, public […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: environmental health, health advocacy, public health, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown Scholar Available to Discuss WHO Report on Health and Environmental Impacts

  WASHINGTON — Anticipating the World Health Organization’s report on health and environmental impacts (expected March 15), Georgetown professor Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, points out that environmental harms unfairly impact the most vulnerable people in the world.

  Category: News Release Tags: climate change, environmental health