All Posts: preventive medicine

• 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

• You Are What You Eat: Students Drive New Elective in Culinary Medicine

  (October 14, 2019) — A recent survey of 24 studies around the world found that nutrition is not well incorporated into the medical school curriculum. According to researchers, “Despite the centrality of nutrition to healthy lifestyle, medical students are not supported to provide high-quality, effective nutrition care.” However, some medical schools are determined to change […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: culinary medicine, medical education, nutrition and health, nutrition education, preventive medicine, School of Medicine