All Posts:population health

• School of Nursing Graduate Student Embraces Yupik Lifestyle While Serving Underserved Populations in Rural Alaska

  Lindsey Wagner (G’24) worked as a clinical instructor and nurse in Bethel, a small city in western Alaska, and will soon embark on new work serving Native peoples as she completes her graduate degree in the School of Nursing’s Nurse-Midwifery/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Berkley School of Nursing, health disparities, health equity, population health, racial disparities, student experience

• Working in Extreme Heat: Deaths Underestimated and Protections Fall Short

  Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, two occupational health experts outline three necessary steps to close gaps in the management of workers impacted by extreme heat conditions in order to reduce heat-related illness and death.

  Category: News Release Tags: climate change, heat-related illness, occupational health, population health, research, School of Health

• Through Experiential Learning in Tanzania, Nursing Students Gain Experience and New Perspective

  In less than two weeks, nursing students provided dental exams and vision screenings, led health education sessions, toured a hospital for patients with tuberculosis and HIV, visited a vaccine clinic, learned about postpartum care and more through the inaugural Tanzania Health Care Experiential Learning Initiative.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Berkley School of Nursing, global health, population health, student experience, Tanzania

• Nursing Programs Implement Innovative Curriculum to Emphasize Health Equity

  Recognizing a need to strategically weave health equity content throughout their courses, educators in the School of Nursing’s Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) and Nurse-Midwifery (NM)/WHNP Programs designed and implemented an innovative health equity curriculum to give students the knowledge and skills they need to provide patient-centered care and promote social justice.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Berkley School of Nursing, health disparities, health equity, nurse midwifery, nursing education, population health, women's health, women's health nurse practitioner program

• School of Health Students Finding Sustainable Health Solutions in Rural India

  Through their student-run organization, Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Improvement), Georgetown undergraduate students including those from the School of Health are partnering with local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to address population health problems such as anemia and malnutrition through education and the use of sustainable health products.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: global health, population health, service to others, student experience

• Georgetown’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, in Partnership with the Government of Malawi, Leverages Emerging Tools To Accelerate an End to National HIV Epidemic

  Georgetown University’s Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH), in partnership with the Republic of Malawi’s Ministry of Health, will advance research and policy toward the scale-up of long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs to prevent HIV in the African country.

  Category: News Release Tags: global health, HIV, long-acting PrEP, Malawi, population health, preventive medicine, research

• Interprofessional Learning Experience Inspires Students to Practice Coordinated Care

  Recognizing the importance of coordinated patient care among nurses, doctors and others, students from the School of Medicine and School of Nursing partnered for an interprofessional field trip to focus on caring for the aging.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: aging, population health, School of Medicine

• Georgetown Announces New Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention To Address Health Disparities in Washington, D.C.

  Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s newly dedicated Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention brings renewed hope that those who have been historically underserved in the Washington, DC, area will now have access to more cancer-related services, potentially turning the tide on the high rate of cancer in the city.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer prevention, Georgetown Lombardi, population health, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Black People in Rural Areas Have Greater Mental Health Resiliency Than White People

  Finding in North Carolina is one of the first to explore this relationship and has implications for other areas of the country. WASHINGTON (March 4, 2023) — Black people living in rural areas of North Carolina were found to have better mental health than white people despite their exposure to various forms of racism and […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Men's Health Equity, mental health, population health, Racial Justice Institute, research, socioeconomic disparities

• Georgetown’s New Center Prepares Students for Careers Advancing Health Equity

  Georgetown has created a new Center for Health Equity to prepare graduate and undergraduate students for careers that prioritize community health and reduce health disparities.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, health equity, population health, research