All Posts: racism

• In Values Based Lecture, Griffith Discusses Ways to Achieve Health Equity

  (April 30, 2022) — While public health is guided by goals that are specific, measurable and time-bound, the goals of health equity have been difficult to pursue because they do not follow these principles, explained Derek Griffith, PhD, professor of health systems administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) and founding co-director […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health equity, racial justice, racism, social justice, Values Based Lecture

• Medical Student Uses Instagram to Share Recipes, Build Community and Make a Difference

  (March 27, 2021) — When grocery stores and restaurants closed due to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, Georgetown medical student Karen Li (M’24) and her sister, Winnie, a pre-med student at Northeastern University, started Quaraneat, an Instagram account, to share easy recipes their friends could use to stretch their ingredients while practicing social distancing. […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, COVID-19, racism, School of Medicine

• GUMC Community Meeting Focuses on Racial Justice, ‘Our Highest Priority’

  (February 26, 2021) — Students, staff, faculty and Georgetown University leadership gathered virtually for the first GUMC Community Meeting of 2021 that carried a singular focus: racial justice. “We have devoted our time together to this topic because the journey toward and the achievement of equity and racial justice at all levels of our community […]

  Categories: GUMC Stories, Special Stories Tags: collaboration, Georgetown Lombardi, GUMC community meeting, racial equity, racial justice, Racial Justice Initiative, racism, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• ‘Black Doctors Matter’ at SNMA’s Melanin in Medicine

  (February 20, 2021) — At Melanin in Medicine, an annual event organized by the Georgetown University Student National Medical Association (SNMA), “Black Doctors Matter: Enriching Medicine Since 1837” was not just a theme but a cause for celebration and a call to action. Held in collaboration with the School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity, Equity […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, medical education, Melanin in Medicine, racial equity, racism, School of Medicine

• 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