All Posts: health equity

• New Georgetown Report Highlights Health Disparities and Calls for Racial Equity in the District of Columbia

  Category: News Release Tags: COVID-19, health disparities, health equity, population health, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• 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 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, health advocacy, health disparities, health equity, health justice, Health Justice Alliance, School of Medicine

• NHS Alumnae Begin New Nonprofit to Support Doctorally Prepared Nurses of Color

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, health equity, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Medical Student Presentations Cap Health Justice Week Events

  (April 18, 2020) — Georgetown University School of Medicine students in the Health Justice Scholar (HJS) Track celebrated Health Justice Week 2020 from April 6 to 8 with events — held virtually this year — designed to uphold the program’s mission to empower student physicians to be advocates for health justice. The HJS Track is […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health equity, health justice, LGBTQ, medical education, School of Medicine

• Former CMS Administrator Delivers NHS Values Based Lecture

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, health advocacy, health equity, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• Fighting Racial Stigma Through Shared Experiences at ‘Melanin in Medicine’

  (February 28, 2020) — In honor of Black History Month, Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) hosted its second-annual Melanin in Medicine event, creating a safe space for medical professionals, students and other participants to have candid, thought-provoking conversations with the goal of fostering healthier interactions among minorities in the health care […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: advocacy, diversity, health disparities, health equity, Melanin in Medicine, School of Medicine

• Minority Health Initiative Council at School of Nursing & Health Studies Celebrates 10th Anniversary

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

• HOYA Clinic Serves DC Residents in New Location

  (January 3, 2020) — The lobby of The Triumph, Community of Hope’s new temporary housing site in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC, was buzzing with commotion as residents waited to get care. It has only been a few months since the reopening of Georgetown University School of Medicine’s HOYA Clinic, a student-driven free […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, cura personalis, health disparities, health equity, HOYA Clinic, School of Medicine, service to others

• Telenovela Empowers At-Risk Latina Women to Seek Genetic Counseling Services

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cura personalis, genetic counseling, genetic testing, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, health equity, population health, School of Medicine

• NHS Health Systems Administration Chair to Serve on D.C. Commission on Health Equity

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