All Posts: global health
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- GUMC Stories
Panel Reflects on Lessons From the Past to Secure Public Health for the Future
May 11, 2019 — While measures to improve infectious disease response have improved dramatically over the past decade, the global health community cannot afford to be complacent,…
May 11, 2019
- GUMC Stories
Meet Deus Bazira, Co-Director of the New Center for Global Health Practice and Impact
(April 15, 2019) — Georgetown University Medical Center this week announced the appointment of Deus Bazira, DrPH, MPH, MBA, BPharm, to co-lead Georgetown’s new Center for Global…
April 15, 2019
- News Release
Georgetown Welcomes Deus Bazira and Colleagues to Lead New Global Health Center
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (April 15, 2019) — Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) announces the appointment of Deus Bazira, DrPH, MPH, MBA,…
April 15, 2019
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Georgetown Partnership Explores Faith-based Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance at Second Rome Workshop
(April 12, 2019) — Religious communities have a potentially vital role to play in thwarting the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a “hidden” and yet looming global health…
April 12, 2019
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Georgetown Global Health Experts in Infectious Disease Available to Comment on WHO PHEIC Meeting
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (April 12, 2019) — Today, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the…
April 12, 2019
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Once His Home, Medical Student Uses Research Requirement to Investigate Hypertension in Zimbabwe
(March 29, 2019) — The nearly 200 independent scholarly projects completed by students at Georgetown University School of Medicine this year varied from topics including…
April 8, 2019
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Alternative Spring Break Experience Provokes Reflection, Introspection for NHS Student
(March 29, 2019) — Growing up in Nebraska, Emily Graul (NHS’20) was already familiar with the challenges associated with rural health care accessibility, but leading an…
March 29, 2019
- News Release
A Billion People Will Be Newly Exposed to Diseases Like Dengue Fever as World Temperatures Rise
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 28, 2019) — As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the…
March 28, 2019
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Georgetown Researchers Launch ‘Nari Paila,’ Mobile Games to Share Information on Fertility Awareness, Family Planning in Nepal
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 24, 2019) — This month, Georgetown researchers launched a series of mobile games in Nepal to reach young people…
March 24, 2019
