All Posts: health disparities

• Washington-area Health Leaders Gather for School of Health Celebration

  (July 1, 2022) — Leaders from Washington-area foundations, organizations and agencies engaged in work to alleviate health disparities joined with friends, family and Georgetown colleagues for an early celebration of the new School of Health launching July 1. The gathering in Georgetown on June 23 had been postponed in April due to COVID and was […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, School of Health

• To Close Racial Health Inequity Chasm, a Comprehensive Audit of Historical Policies, Events and Practices is Needed

  WASHINGTON (February 7, 2022) — A thorough examination of federal as well as local — city, county, and state — historical policies, practices and events is imperative to fully understand why health disparities exist and persist, posits a Georgetown University team of researchers. Writing in the February 2022 “Racism & Health” issue of Health Affairs, […]

  Category: News Release Tags: health disparities, health equity, racial disparities, racial justice, Racial Justice Institute, research, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Starting Mammography at Age 40 Would Reduce Disparities in Deaths for Black Women

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer screening, cancer, health disparities, mammography, racial disparities

• NHS Department Partners with MedStar Health on New Community Health Needs Assessment

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, needs assessment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown AHEC Prepares the Next Generation of Primary Care Professionals

  (June 18, 2021) — As a college student shadowing in an emergency department, Lorrane Kabert, MD (M’21), frequently found herself wondering what happened to patients after her shift ended and if they received adequate follow-up care. “I truly enjoyed speaking with patients and learned that many of them did not have doctors that they saw […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: AHEC program, health disparities, health equity, School of Medicine, student achievement

• Two Georgetown Lombardi Researchers Win Top Award in Back-to-Back Years

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, faculty honors, grants and awards, health disparities, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research

• Georgetown Faculty, Students Testify in Support of Resolution to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis in DC

  Update: On December 1, 2020 the DC Council voted in favor of a resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis. (November 8, 2020) — Members of the Georgetown University community testified in support of a proposed resolution declaring racism a public health crisis at a recent DC Council Committee on Health public roundtable. Representatives […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, population health, public health, racial equity, racism

• Georgetown Nursing Professor Named 2020 Health Disparities Institute Scholar

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: faculty honors, health disparities, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• $1M Gift Supports NHS Students Serving Geriatric and Vulnerable Populations

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: geriatrics, health disparities, health equity, nursing, scholarship endowment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• 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.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: advocacy, health advocacy, health disparities, health equity, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies