All Posts: health justice
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Family Gift Supports Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Over the Next Decade
A new gift of $1.5 million to Georgetown University will sustain the efforts of the Health Justice Alliance (HJA), Georgetown’s medical-legal partnership that is training future physicians, lawyers and nurses to collaboratively use the law as a tool to improve health and well-being at the patient, systems, and population levels.
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Howard and Georgetown Universities To Launch Joint Medical Humanities Center Funded by Mellon Foundation Grant
WASHINGTON (January 19, 2023) — The Mellon Foundation has awarded a 3.5 year, $3 million grant to support a collaboration between Georgetown University and Howard University in the establishment of a center for medical humanities. The Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice will focus on reducing health disparities in Washington through leveraging methods […]
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CURA Pre-Orientation Program Engages New Georgetown Undergrads with Health, Justice and Service
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Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Unites Law and Medical Centers to Advance Health Equity
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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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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 […]
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Hoyas on the Hill Advocate on Behalf of Patients
(March 24, 2020) — Though the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the focus on the Hill, the purposeful groups of Health Justice Scholars from Georgetown University School of Medicine and Georgetown Law who walked the halls of congressional buildings on March 11 — just one day before such visits were canceled — were undeterred in their efforts […]
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GUMC Events Keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message Alive
(January 31, 2020) — The words and examples of Martin Luther King Jr. came alive again in the GUMC community through several events held on the campus in the days before and after the January 20 holiday. Among the events organized by the School of Medicine, including the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, were a […]
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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 […]
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Creating Leaders in Health Justice Beyond the Hilltop
(March 29, 2019) — As a medical school applicant, Hunter Fraker (M’19) was not only interested in learning about medicine but also how to advocate for his patients through policy. He was drawn to Georgetown University School of Medicine by its Health Justice Scholar (HJS) Track, a longitudinal four-year academic track that empowers student physicians […]
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