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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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• Medical Humanities Minor Launched by University

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, medical humanities, Medical Humanities Initiative

• Medical Humanities Initiative Creates Novel Learning Opportunities with Interdisciplinary Students and Faculty

  (January 28, 2021) — For years to come, the social, cultural and historical contexts of the coronavirus pandemic will be subjects of intense interest and study. In the fall semester of 2020, several Georgetown students started to dive into these areas through the recently established Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative. As the founding director of this […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: interdisciplinary programs, medical education, medical humanities, Medical Humanities Initiative, School of Medicine