Archive: pandemic
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Georgetown Global Health Center Issues Pandemic Preparedness Report and COVID-19 Lessons
WASHINGTON (September 14, 2020) — In a new report commissioned by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), Georgetown global health experts say the success of any effort to redress pandemic preparedness failures demonstrated by COVID-19 requires a re-centering of governance that would include greater accountability, transparency, equity, participation and the rule of law. The report, […]
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Georgetown’s Mark Dybul Named to Independent Panel Examining WHO’s Response to COVID-19
WASHINGTON (September 3, 2020) — Ambassador Mark Dybul, MD, professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and co-director of its Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, has been named to a prestigious panel tasked with examining the World Health Organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The co-chairs for The Independent Panel for Pandemic […]
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COVID-19 Symptom Tracker Ensures Privacy During Isolation
WASHINGTON (August 13, 2020) — An online COVID-19 symptom tracking tool developed by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center ensures a person’s confidentiality while being able to actively monitor their symptoms. The tool is not proprietary and can be used by entities that are not able to develop their own tracking systems. Identifying and monitoring […]
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Get to Know Georgetown’s COVID-19 Researchers
Category: GUMC Stories
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SOM Alumna Channels Cura Personalis Lessons to Psychiatric Care During Pandemic
Category: GUMC Stories
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Medical Student Makes a Difference by Donating Convalescent Plasma
(July 17, 2020) — When Tanvee Singh (M’22) started feeling sick in March, she thought her asthma was acting up. As her symptoms worsened, she was diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Determined to find a silver lining in her experience, Singh donated plasma at the NIH Clinical Center when she […]
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New COVID-19 Policy Mapping Tool and Database Released to Help Inform Decision-making
WASHINGTON (July 16, 2020) — Amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and in anticipation of outbreaks intensifying over the summer, the experts behind COVID-Local.org have launched a new policy mapping tool and comprehensive database. The tool allows community and national leaders to measure their phased reopening and ongoing local disease spread against the impact of […]
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Statement by the Honorable Mark Dybul, MD, to Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
June 30, 2020 Statement, as Submitted, by the Honorable Mark Dybul, MDProfessor of Medicine and Co-Director, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, Georgetown University Medical Center Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: COVID-19 and US International Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response Chairman Risch, Ranking Member Menendez and members of the Committee: It is […]
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Dearth of Medical Resources in Africa for COVID-19 Reminiscent of Early HIV/AIDS Pandemic
WASHINGTON (May 7, 2020) — “We have seen this before.” Global health scholars have issued a clarion call about the needless loss of life expected because of a foreseeable prospect of “slow and inadequate access to supplies” to control COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. They say what is unfolding now is similar to when lifesaving diagnostics […]
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Top Global Health Experts Release Action Plan: COVID-19: A Global Pandemic Demands a Global Response
WASHINGTON (April 23, 2020) — Some of the world’s foremost experts in global health say a comprehensive global response can defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, but the time to act is now. In a comprehensive white paper (COVID-19: A Global Pandemic Demands a Global Response) available today on the Georgetown University website, Georgetown professor and the […]
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