All Posts: public health

• COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Behavioral Health in D.C. and Drove Significant Growth in Telehealth Care

  The COVID-19 pandemic drove an increased demand for behavioral health services, but thanks to an increase in the availability of telehealth services, a greater number of residents successfully accessed virtual care during the pandemic than in years prior, according to a new report commissioned by the Office of the D.C. Auditor (ODCA).

  Category: News Release Tags: Behavioral Health, COVID-19, District of Columbia, mental health, pandemic, public health, telehealth

• UNICEF Award to CGHPI Supports COVID-19 Vaccination in Eswatini

  (January 6, 2023) — Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Practice and Impact-Eswatini (CGHPI-E) continues its COVID-19 vaccination work with the support of a new UNICEF award. Its new project addresses vaccine hesitancy through targeted and differentiated programming and communication campaigns at the community level in the Manzini and Lubombo regions of Eswatini. In March 2021, […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Eswatini, global health, public health

• Georgetown Hosts Flu Clinic Amid Early Surge in Cases on Campus

  (September 19, 2021) — Following a reported uptick in flu cases among undergraduates on Georgetown’s campus, the university hosted an influenza vaccine clinic on Sunday for its students. About 400 undergrads were vaccinated at the Leavey Center clinic organized by the Student Health Center, in partnership with the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: flu, flu shots, public health, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown’s Jesse Goodman Leads Vaccine Analysis Team

  (May 7, 2021) — If you’ve read news stories this past year about COVID-19 vaccines in The Washington Post or The New York Times, for example, or have heard stories on NPR, the journalists’ reporting may well have been informed by input from a group of vaccine experts led by Georgetown infectious disease specialist Jesse […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, COVID-19, pandemic, public health, vaccination, Vaccine

• Georgetown Nursing Helps Promote Public Health Through COVID-19 Efforts

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

• Two Georgetown Centers Find Unexpected Synergy in Exploring Pandemic’s Impact in Latin America

  (February 26, 2021) — Proving that scholarly sparks can fly in unexpected ways, a cross-campus collaboration between Georgetown University Medical Center and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is applying a holistic new lens to COVID-19. Drawing on each center’s unique expertise, undergraduate and graduate students from the Center for Global Health Science […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, collaboration, COVID-19, global health, Latin America, public 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

• Georgetown’s Mark Dybul Named to Independent Panel Examining WHO’s Response to COVID-19

  WASHINGTON (September 3, 2020) — Ambassador Mark Dybul, MD, professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and co-director of its Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, has been named to a prestigious panel tasked with examining the World Health Organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The co-chairs for The Independent Panel for Pandemic […]

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

• COVID-19 Symptom Tracker Ensures Privacy During Isolation

  WASHINGTON (August 13, 2020) — An online COVID-19 symptom tracking tool developed by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center ensures a person’s confidentiality while being able to actively monitor their symptoms. The tool is not proprietary and can be used by entities that are not able to develop their own tracking systems. Identifying and monitoring […]

  Category: News Release Tags: COVID-19, COVID-19 symptom tracking tool, infectious disease, pandemic, public health