Archive: pandemic

• Get to Know Georgetown’s COVID-19 Researchers

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, COVID-19, Georgetown Lombardi, global health, pandemic

• SOM Alumna Channels Cura Personalis Lessons to Psychiatric Care During Pandemic

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, cura personalis, pandemic, School of Medicine

• Medical Student Makes a Difference by Donating Convalescent Plasma

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: convalescent plasma, COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, service to others

• New COVID-19 Policy Mapping Tool and Database Released to Help Inform Decision-making

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Center for Global Health Science and Security, COVID-19, global health, pandemic, public health

• Statement by the Honorable Mark Dybul, MD, to Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, COVID-19, global health, pandemic

• Dearth of Medical Resources in Africa for COVID-19 Reminiscent of Early HIV/AIDS Pandemic

  Category: News Release Tags: Africa, COVID-19, global health, infectious disease, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2

• Top Global Health Experts Release Action Plan: COVID-19: A Global Pandemic Demands a Global Response

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, big data, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, COVID-19, global health, machine learning, pandemic

• Experts Show U.S. Foreign Policy Gains from a Presidential Pandemics Effort

  Category: News Release Tags: climate change, global health, infectious disease, pandemic

• Georgetown Researchers: Swift Action Needed to Avoid Large Deadly Nipah Outbreak

  Georgetown researchers are calling for comprehensive actions to prepare for increasing outbreaks of the killer Nipah virus that will help mitigate the risk of a future pandemic of the disease.

  Category: News Release Tags: global health, Nipah virus, pandemic, School of Medicine

• Zika Has Arrived, But is the U.S. Ready?

  WASHINGTON –The Florida Department of Health, investigating non-travel related cases of Zika in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, has concluded “that a high likelihood exists that four cases are the result of local transmission.” Despite the advance warning of Zika’s approach, Georgetown experts in infectious disease, public health law, health systems readiness and mosquito research say the United States isn’t ready for a Zika outbreak. 

  Category: News Release Tags: global health, pandemic, Zika