All Posts: global health
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Jesse Goodman: Taking on a "Slow Emergency"
On September 21, for only the fourth time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly is conducting a high-level meeting to address a critical global health issue. The…
September 21, 2016
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Collateral Harm: The Impact of Ebola and Related Fears on Facility-Based Child Deliveries
WASHINGTON -- The first known household survey examining the collateral harm to pregnancy services in areas affected by the West African Ebola epidemic suggests a significant…
July 31, 2016
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Zika Has Arrived, But is the U.S. Ready?
WASHINGTON –The Florida Department of Health, investigating non-travel related cases of Zika in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, has concluded “that a high…
July 29, 2016
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Smartphone Apps Not So Smart at Helping Users Avoid or Achieve Pregnancy
WASHINGTON — You might not want to depend on your smartphone app alone to help you avoid or achieve pregnancy, say the authors of a new study. A review of nearly 100…
June 30, 2016
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Gulf War Illness: Looking Back to Move Forward
Georgetown University Medical Center and the Brookings Institution co-hosted “Desert Storm after 25 years: Confronting the Exposures of Modern Warfare” on June 17…
June 18, 2016
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“Disease Outbreak Guarantees” – A Proposed Mechanism for Enhancing Public Health Capacity
WASHINGTON — What if private companies could obtain some coverage to protect their foreign investments in developing countries against crippling infectious disease…
June 16, 2016
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Seeking guidance for clinicians facing a question of human rights
Should a physician, after helping deliver a child to a women whose genitals had been cut and vulva stitched together — an outlawed procedure generally called female…
May 31, 2016
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Rebecca Katz: Creating public health infrastructure to handle pandemics — before they occur
Meet Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH. She and her global health team are watching with more than keen interest the way the U.S. is positioning itself to handle a potential Zika outbreak…
May 31, 2016
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A Yellow Fever Epidemic: A New Global Health Emergency?
WASHINGTON — Evidence is mounting that the current outbreak of yellow fever is becoming the latest global health emergency, say two Georgetown University professors who…
May 10, 2016
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West Africa, Ebola and the Threat of Zika
WASHINGTON — Rapid testing for the Zika virus is a critical need in the recent Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, says a Georgetown University…
March 17, 2016