All Posts: health advocacy
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Future Physician-Advocates Hone Their Skills During Health Justice Week
As part of Health Justice Week, School of Medicine students investigated social, legal, racial and economic barriers to health in an interprofessional learning environment.
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Out of the Hospital and to the Hill, Medical Students Focus on Public Policy
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White Coats for Black Lives
(June 5, 2020) — Members of our Georgetown and MedStar Health communities knelt in solidarity with and support of the Black community during a peaceful nationwide demonstration by health care workers on Friday, June 5.
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Health Justice Alliance Responds to COVID-19
(May 19, 2020) — While COVID-19 exacts its devastating toll across the world, in Washington, DC, the pandemic has deepened the gulf of health disparities and social injustice. For the students and leaders of Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance, a collaboration between Georgetown Law and the university’s medical center, the havoc created by the crisis makes […]
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Former CMS Administrator Delivers NHS Values Based Lecture
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Research In A Minute: Laura Anderko, PhD, RN
(April 26, 2019) — Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, holds the Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Chair in Values Based Health Care at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. She is a professor and director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (MACCHE) and a scholar in the fields of epidemiology, public […]
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