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

October 13, 2020

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Georgetown Global Health Center Issues Pandemic Preparedness Report and COVID-19 Lessons

WASHINGTON (September 14, 2020) — In a new report commissioned by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), Georgetown global health experts say the success of any…

September 14, 2020

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Georgetown’s Mark Dybul Named to Independent Panel Examining WHO’s Response to COVID-19

WASHINGTON (September 3, 2020) — Ambassador Mark Dybul, MD, professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and co-director of its Center for Global Health…

September 3, 2020

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Georgetown Physician Calls for Formal Inquiry Into U.S. Handling of COVID-19

WASHINGTON (August 5, 2020) — A complete understanding of how the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a public health disaster will require a full investigation akin to…

August 5, 2020

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A Global Plan for Parasite Conservation

Parasites are unseen heroes that maintain ecosystem stability; they are scarcely studied and highly threatened by global change, and now there is a global plan to conserve them. …

August 1, 2020

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Get to Know Georgetown’s COVID-19 Researchers

July 27, 2020

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NHS Professor Part of Global Collaboration Behind New COVID-19 Legal Database

July 22, 2020

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New COVID-19 Policy Mapping Tool and Database Released to Help Inform Decision-making

WASHINGTON (July 16, 2020) — Amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and in anticipation of outbreaks intensifying over the summer, the experts behind COVID-Local.org have launched…

July 16, 2020

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Conditional Reprogramming: A Novel Way to Study the Novel Coronavirus

(July 8, 2020) — Even during the early days of the pandemic, it was apparent that some patients with COVID-19 develop multisystem problems in addition to respiratory. …

July 9, 2020

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Public Health Physicians: Four Measures Needed to Ensure Public Trust, Safety in COVID-19 Vaccine Development

WASHINGTON (July 6, 2020) — Public health experts are outlining four key safeguards necessary during the development of a COVID-19 vaccine that will ensure the public can trust…

July 6, 2020