All Posts: global health
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Georgetown Global Health Center Launches First Open-Access Wildlife Disease Database
Georgetown University Medical Center’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) today announces the launch of a first-of-its-kind wildlife disease database — a system for collecting records of viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, etc. — designed to support an early warning system for potential viral emergence.
Category: News Release
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School of Health Students Practice Community-Led Approach to Health With Alaska Natives
When considering global health challenges, practitioners in the field often say “what’s global is local” and vice versa. This fall, Alaina Anderson (H’24) and Seareen Maaita (H’24), both studying global health, took this theory with them while interning for 15 weeks with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.
Category: GUMC Stories
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IFRC and Georgetown Global Health Center Create Research-based Collaboration
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) today announce a new collaboration aimed at harnessing each organization’s strengths with the goal to alleviate or prevent human suffering caused by threats from infectious diseases.
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Global Health Student’s Interest in Migrant Health Motivated by Personal Experiences
Receiving the David F. Andretta Summer Research Fellowship gave Iman Ibrahim (H’24), a global health major with a minor in Arabic, the opportunity to spend five weeks in Turkey working on a project titled “Medicine and Migration: Understanding Operational and Social Challenges to Service Delivery and Healthcare Decision-Making for Syrian Migrants in Turkey.”
Category: GUMC Stories
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From Cells to the Clinic: School of Health Undergraduates in Argentina Study Respiratory Diseases
School of Health students immersed themselves in the Argentinian health care system as part of a six-week translational health science internship program to study the clinical effects and molecular mechanisms of viruses that cause respiratory infections in infants and children
Category: GUMC Stories
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Through Experiential Learning in Tanzania, Nursing Students Gain Experience and New Perspective
In less than two weeks, nursing students provided dental exams and vision screenings, led health education sessions, toured a hospital for patients with tuberculosis and HIV, visited a vaccine clinic, learned about postpartum care and more through the inaugural Tanzania Health Care Experiential Learning Initiative.
Category: GUMC Stories
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School of Health Students Finding Sustainable Health Solutions in Rural India
Through their student-run organization, Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Improvement), Georgetown undergraduate students including those from the School of Health are partnering with local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to address population health problems such as anemia and malnutrition through education and the use of sustainable health products.
Category: GUMC Stories
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Georgetown’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, in Partnership with the Government of Malawi, Leverages Emerging Tools To Accelerate an End to National HIV Epidemic
Georgetown University’s Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH), in partnership with the Republic of Malawi’s Ministry of Health, will advance research and policy toward the scale-up of long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs to prevent HIV in the African country.
Category: News Release
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Student Fellows Connect Interprofessionally To Advance Global Health Research
The current cohort of Global Health Institute (GHI) student fellows embodies the university’s commitment to a cross-disciplinary approach to researching global health. Students and faculty from all three Georgetown University Medical Center schools, as well as the law center and main campus, partner across professions to advance global health projects.
Category: GUMC Stories
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New UNAIDS Collaborating Center at Georgetown Leverages Strengths in HIV/AIDS Law, Policy, and Politics
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today designated the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative at Georgetown as a United Nations Collaborating Center to support and advance policy and laws impacting HIV/AIDS with the overarching goal of addressing the inequalities driving the pandemic.
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