All Posts: health equity
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Nursing Programs Implement Innovative Curriculum to Emphasize Health Equity
Recognizing a need to strategically weave health equity content throughout their courses, educators in the School of Nursing’s Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) and Nurse-Midwifery (NM)/WHNP Programs designed and implemented an innovative health equity curriculum to give students the knowledge and skills they need to provide patient-centered care and promote social justice.
Category: GUMC Stories
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Medical Students Make Connections Over Community-Based Learning
Young people from a DC primary school came to campus for a daylong experience with School of Medicine students in the Community Based Learning program. The April 14 visit came at the end of the community-based learning (CBL) course, a class that gets first-year medical students out of the classroom and into one of 24 community sites.
Category: GUMC Stories
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Georgetown Announces New Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention To Address Health Disparities in Washington, D.C.
The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center will open on Monday, April 17 at 1010 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C., building on a longstanding partnership between Georgetown and Ralph Lauren on cancer research and care.
Category: News Release
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Georgetown’s New Center Prepares Students for Careers Advancing Health Equity
Georgetown has created a new Center for Health Equity to prepare graduate and undergraduate students for careers that prioritize community health and reduce health disparities.
Category: GUMC Stories
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Medical Center Deans Discuss Future of Health at GU Black Alumni Summit
(October 23, 2022) — Closing the health-disparities gap in Black communities throughout the U.S. requires a commitment to providing an anti-racism curriculum that teaches health equity to future leaders and practitioners in health care, explained three Georgetown deans during the biennial Georgetown University Black Alumni Summit in Washington. Since 2015, Georgetown University has hosted the […]
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Studying Strategies to Achieve Men’s Health Equity
(July 30, 2022) — As founder and director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, Derek Griffith, PhD, strives to solve a mystery: Why do men, on average, live shorter lives than women, and what can be done to reduce that disparity? “When you look at sex differences and gender differences in the incidence and […]
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New School of Nursing Guided by Dean’s Strong Vision for Equity, Social Justice
(July 1, 2022) — As Georgetown launches a reconceptualized School of Nursing on July 1, Roberta Waite, EdD, PMHCNS, RN, MSN, ANEF, FAAN, is uniquely poised to lead the school as dean, bringing her decades of experience working to advance health equity. Improving the human condition drives the University’s work, and the launch of the […]
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In Values Based Lecture, Griffith Discusses Ways to Achieve Health Equity
(April 30, 2022) — While public health is guided by goals that are specific, measurable and time-bound, the goals of health equity have been difficult to pursue because they do not follow these principles, explained Derek Griffith, PhD, professor of health systems administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) and founding co-director […]
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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, […]
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MedStar Health and Georgetown University Medical Center to Develop AI and Machine Learning Training for Early Career and Minority Investigators Interested in Health Disparities
The initiative is part of the NIH-funded AIM-AHEAD Consortium dedicated to addressing the lack of diversity in the field of data science WASHINGTON (December 20, 2021) — MedStar Health and Georgetown University Medical Center announce their collaboration in the Data Science Training Core, part of a new two-year, multimillion-dollar award funded by the National Institutes […]
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