Archive: pandemic
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New Study Finds Climate Change Could Spark the Next Pandemic
WASHINGTON (April 28, 2022) — As the Earth’s climate continues to warm, researchers predict wild animals will be forced to relocate their habitats — likely to regions with large human populations — dramatically increasing the risk of a viral jump to humans that could lead to the next pandemic. This link between climate change and […]
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Researchers Find Humans Have Given Wild Animals Their Diseases Nearly 100 Times
WASHINGTON (March 23, 2022) — An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has found that humans might give viruses back to animals more often than previously understood. In a study published March 22 in Ecology Letters (“Assessing the risk of human-to-wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health”), the authors describe nearly […]
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Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Guide the Search for the Next SARS-like Virus
WASHINGTON (January 10, 2022) — An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has demonstrated the power of artificial intelligence to predict which viruses could infect humans — like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that led to the COVID-19 pandemic — which animals host them, and where they could emerge. Their ensemble of predictive models […]
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Understanding What Causes Fever to Reduce the Spread of Dangerous Pathogens
(September 23, 2021) — Fever is one of the most common and recognizable signs of human disease, but remains surprisingly mysterious from an etiological perspective. In some regions of the world where fevers are common, identifying their causes could reduce the risk of exposure to dangerous pathogens, especially those originating in animals. Understanding these causes […]
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Carnegie Corporation Awards Grant to Georgetown Global Health Law Expert to Explore Pandemic Treaty
WASHINGTON (September 15, 2021) — The Carnegie Corporation of New York announced that it has awarded Alexandra L. Phelan, SJD, LLM, LLB, an expert in global health law and a member of the Center for Global Health Science & Security at Georgetown University Medical Center, a grant to investigate the new Pandemic Treaty and international law […]
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Statement from Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, on FDA Approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine
WASHINGTON (August 23, 2021) — Today, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved the two-dose COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center and former FDA Chief Scientist, shares the following comments: “In addition to evaluating the vaccine’s safety and efficacy in preventing COVID, FDA has […]
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Georgetown’s Jesse Goodman Leads Vaccine Analysis Team
(May 7, 2021) — If you’ve read news stories this past year about COVID-19 vaccines in The Washington Post or The New York Times, for example, or have heard stories on NPR, the journalists’ reporting may well have been informed by input from a group of vaccine experts led by Georgetown infectious disease specialist Jesse […]
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Georgetown Researchers Launch Online Library Chronicling 25 Years of Pandemic Preparedness Policy
WASHINGTON (January 12, 2021) — Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) today announced the launch of the most comprehensive collection of documents from the last two and a half decades of pandemic preparedness planning. The online collection, “Health Security Net,” was unveiled January 12 at the Futures Forum on Preparedness, which […]
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Georgetown’s Rebecca Katz Named Advisor on Biden Coronavirus Task Force
WASHINGTON (November 9, 2020) — Georgetown University Medical Center’s Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, has been named as an advisor for President-elect Joe Biden’s new coronavirus task force. Katz has been part of a team advising Biden on COVID-19 for the last several months along with […]
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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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