All Posts: population health

• Georgetown Faculty, Students Testify in Support of Resolution to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis in DC

  Update: On December 1, 2020 the DC Council voted in favor of a resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis. (November 8, 2020) — Members of the Georgetown University community testified in support of a proposed resolution declaring racism a public health crisis at a recent DC Council Committee on Health public roundtable. Representatives […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, population health, public health, racial equity, racism

• Food Insecurity Caused by Coronavirus May Have Long-Term Health Consequences

  (October 16, 2020) — As a postdoctoral research associate in nephrology and hypertension, Aline de Souza, PhD, studies the long-term impact of drastic weight loss due to severe calorie restriction with Kathryn Sandberg, PhD, professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine.  When studying female rats that experienced severe calorie restriction, de […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: calorie restriction, COVID-19, food insecurity, population health, public health

• New Georgetown Report Highlights Health Disparities and Calls for Racial Equity in the District of Columbia

  Category: News Release Tags: COVID-19, health disparities, health equity, population health, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• COVID-19 and DC Black Communities: Challenges and Opportunities

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, health disparities, population health, public health

• Telenovela Empowers At-Risk Latina Women to Seek Genetic Counseling Services

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cura personalis, genetic counseling, genetic testing, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, health equity, population health, School of Medicine

• Georgetown HIV Expert Co-Authors Report on HIV in America

  (October 3, 2019) — In his 2019 State of the Union address, President Trump announced a new federal commitment to ending the HIV epidemic in 10 years.  For infectious disease physician Charles Holmes, MD, faculty co-director of Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Impact and Practice, the announcement was a door cracked open to an opportunity […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: HIV, population health

• Georgetown Lombardi Receives Transformational NCI Grant to Support Community Outreach and Research

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, community outreach, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, population health, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Bacterial Resistance to Two Critical Antibiotics Widespread in Southeast Asia

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (August 12, 2019) — Resistance to two critical antibiotic types, one a “drug of last resort” when all others fail against some “superbugs,” are widely distributed in Southeast Asia, raising the risk of untreatable infections, say a team of investigators led by Georgetown University Medical Center. The study, published in the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: antibiotic resistance, global health, population health

• NHS Students, Professor Attend Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network Conference

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: population health, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• NHS Family Nurse Practitioner Program Director Builds Collaboration With West Virginia Community

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: population health, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others