All Posts: health equity

• Studying Barriers to Health Care to Help Women with HIV

  (June 12, 2019) — Seble G. Kassaye, MD, MS, can’t help but see parallels between HIV-positive African American women in the DC area and conditions surrounding rising rates of HIV infection as it swept through Ethiopia, the country where she was born and raised until a teenager. The infection in Ethiopia occurred largely in urban […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, health disparities, health equity, HIV, public health

• Passion for Health Equity Inspires Undergraduate HJA Collaboration

  (June 1, 2019) — When she was a sophomore at the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) , an experience volunteering abroad led Carolyn Hofley (NHS’19, M’23) to think more deeply about the way that social determinants of health contribute to health disparities. By starting a club for students interested in issues related to […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, health equity, health justice, Health Justice Alliance, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others