All Posts: global health
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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 effort…
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 Practice…
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 the/…
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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NHS Professor Part of Global Collaboration Behind New COVID-19 Legal Database
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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 a…
July 16, 2020
- GUMC Stories
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 infections.…
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
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Statement by the Honorable Mark Dybul, MD, to Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
June 30, 2020 Statement, as Submitted, by the Honorable Mark Dybul, MDProfessor of Medicine and Co-Director, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, Georgetown University…
June 30, 2020