All Posts: School of Health
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School of Health Students Journey to Korea to Explore Health Care System Approaches
A global experience designed to examine the various aspects of health care delivery and systems in comparison to the U.S. system drew 10 Georgetown School of Health graduate students to Seoul, South Korea, in March.
Category: GUMC Stories
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What It Means To Be Well
Learn about the many aspects of well-being, a signature focus for the School of Health’s research and academic missions.
Category: GUMC Stories
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School of Health Students Practice Community-Led Approach to Health With Alaska Natives
When considering global health challenges, practitioners in the field often say “what’s global is local” and vice versa. This fall, Alaina Anderson (H’24) and Seareen Maaita (H’24), both studying global health, took this theory with them while interning for 15 weeks with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.
Category: GUMC Stories
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Global Health Student’s Interest in Migrant Health Motivated by Personal Experiences
Receiving the David F. Andretta Summer Research Fellowship gave Iman Ibrahim (H’24), a global health major with a minor in Arabic, the opportunity to spend five weeks in Turkey working on a project titled “Medicine and Migration: Understanding Operational and Social Challenges to Service Delivery and Healthcare Decision-Making for Syrian Migrants in Turkey.”
Category: GUMC Stories
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School of Health Student Part of Georgetown Storyteller Series
Meet Health Care Management & Policy student Ashley Jeong (H’26), who was selected to be a Georgetown Storyteller this year.
Category: GUMC Stories
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In Video Tribute, School of Health Students Welcome Dr. Anthony Fauci
In honor of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent appointment as a Georgetown Distinguished University Professor, undergraduate students from the School of Health’s Academic Council extended a warm welcome and shared their appreciation for his work in a video message.
Category: GUMC Stories
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Working in Extreme Heat: Deaths Underestimated and Protections Fall Short
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, two occupational health experts outline three necessary steps to close gaps in the management of workers impacted by extreme heat conditions in order to reduce heat-related illness and death.
Category: News Release
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Pre-Orientation Programs Give Hoyas a Taste of Their Futures at Georgetown
Before the start of classes, a small contingent from the class of 2027 spent their first few days on campus immersed in the School of Health’s CURA program, designed for Hoyas interested in in pursuing a career in health care.
Category: GUMC Stories
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From Cells to the Clinic: School of Health Undergraduates in Argentina Study Respiratory Diseases
School of Health students immersed themselves in the Argentinian health care system as part of a six-week translational health science internship program to study the clinical effects and molecular mechanisms of viruses that cause respiratory infections in infants and children
Category: GUMC Stories
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Drinking Kombucha May Reduce Blood Sugar Levels in People with Type 2 Diabetes
People with Type 2 diabetes who drank the fermented tea drink kombucha for four weeks had lower fasting blood glucose levels compared to when they consumed a similar-tasting placebo beverage, according to results from a clinical trial conducted by researchers at Georgetown University’s School of Health, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and MedStar Health.
Category: News Release