All Posts: global health

• Two Georgetown Centers Find Unexpected Synergy in Exploring Pandemic’s Impact in Latin America

  (February 26, 2021) — Proving that scholarly sparks can fly in unexpected ways, a cross-campus collaboration between Georgetown University Medical Center and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is applying a holistic new lens to COVID-19. Drawing on each center’s unique expertise, undergraduate and graduate students from the Center for Global Health Science […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, collaboration, COVID-19, global health, Latin America, public health

• Georgetown Global Health Expert on U.S. Remaining in WHO

  WASHINGTON (January 21, 2021) — Today marks another important step as the United States reaffirms its status as a World Health Organization (WHO) Member State. On Wednesday, in a letter to United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres, President Biden terminated the previous administration’s efforts to leave the WHO, the organization responsible for directing and […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, global health, World Health Organization

• Georgetown Researchers Launch Online Library Chronicling 25 Years of Pandemic Preparedness Policy

  WASHINGTON (January 12, 2021) — Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) today announced the launch of the most comprehensive collection of documents from the last two and a half decades of pandemic preparedness planning. The online collection, “Health Security Net,” was unveiled January 12 at the Futures Forum on Preparedness, which […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, global health, pandemic, pandemic preparedness

• Georgetown to Broaden Commitment to Health, Nursing Through New Schools

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: education, global health, nursing, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• HIV Policies In Most Countries Are Not Aligned With International Standards, Undermining Progress Against AIDS, New Report Shows

  Category: News Release Tags: global health, HIV, O'Neill Institute

• Commonly Used Antibiotic Shows Promise for Combating Zika Infections

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, global health, infectious disease, mosquito borne disease, Zika

• Georgetown Lombardi Announces New Office for Global Oncology

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, global health, global oncology

• Georgetown’s Rebecca Katz Named Advisor on Biden Coronavirus Task Force

  WASHINGTON (November 9, 2020) — Georgetown University Medical Center’s Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH,  director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, has been named as an advisor for President-elect Joe Biden’s new coronavirus task force. Katz has been part of a team advising Biden on COVID-19 for the last several months along with […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, coronavirus, COVID-19, global health, pandemic

• Top Vaccine Experts Join Forces to Provide Objective Perspective and Analysis as COVID-19 Vaccine Data Emerge

  The COVID-19 Vaccine Analysis Team (COVAT) also offers weekly media availability. WASHINGTON (October 12, 2020) — At a time of growing skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines, an ensemble of some of America’s most trusted vaccine scientific experts has launched the COVID-19 Vaccine Analysis Team, or COVAT, to provide rapid and objective expert analysis and communications on […]

  Category: News Release Tags: COVID-19, global health, vaccine development

• NHS Global Health Major Focuses on Improving Health Systems, Advancing Health Equity

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: global health, health equity, School of Nursing & Health Studies