All Posts: population health
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New Georgetown Report Highlights Health Disparities and Calls for Racial Equity in the District of Columbia
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COVID-19 and DC Black Communities: Challenges and Opportunities
Category: GUMC Stories
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Telenovela Empowers At-Risk Latina Women to Seek Genetic Counseling Services
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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
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Georgetown Lombardi Receives Transformational NCI Grant to Support Community Outreach and Research
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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 […]
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NHS Students, Professor Attend Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network Conference
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NHS Family Nurse Practitioner Program Director Builds Collaboration With West Virginia Community
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For Many HIV+ Women, Daily Survival Takes Precedence Over Viral Suppression
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (May 17, 2019) — According to scientists who study women infected with HIV, statistics often paint an impressionist view of the lives of these women that misses the granular detail that tells the real story. The imprecise big picture is that most of this population is doing a good job at […]
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Seeking Social Justice for Patients, Medical Students Turn to the Law
(January 11, 2019) — A new program that allows Georgetown University medical students to complete an elective “rotation” in a law clinic is yielding immediate results for underserved families in the Washington area. Leveraging their training, a Georgetown University medical and law student teamed up to help a mother obtain the appropriate learning accommodations for a […]
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