All Posts: School of Health

• Graduates from School of Health Called to Be Social Justice Warriors

  “Wow, just wow!” With those three words of joy from School of Health Dean Christopher J. King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE, commencement exercises began for the inaugural class of the school founded less than a year earlier. A spirited audience of family, friends and loved ones filled the seats of the storied Gaston Hall for the May 20 graduation.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Commencement 2023, School of Health

• Graduating School of Health Twins Embraced Community Service and Their Muslim Identity While at Georgetown

  Twins Layan Shahrour (H’23) and Nesreen Shahrour (H’23), both human science majors in the School of Health, similarly devoted themselves to the Georgetown community during their undergraduate years.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Commencement 2023, School of Health, student achievement, student experience

• New UNAIDS Collaborating Center at Georgetown Leverages Strengths in HIV/AIDS Law, Policy, and Politics

  The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today designated the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative at Georgetown as a United Nations Collaborating Center to support and advance policy and laws impacting HIV/AIDS with the overarching goal of addressing the inequalities driving the pandemic.

  Category: News Release Tags: global health, Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative, HIV, O'Neill Institute, pandemic, School of Health

• Nursing and Health Students Give a Day of Service at Food & Friends

  Volunteers worked in shifts to help pack medically tailored meals for Food & Friends’ clients in the D.C. region living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes and other chronic illnesses.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, School of Health, School of Nursing, service to others

• Ministry Leaders Discuss the Importance of Contemplation at Values Based Lecture

  (February 10, 2023) — Before coming to Georgetown in August 2022 as chaplain for the School of Health and School of Nursing, Sr. Celeste Mokrzycki served as vocations director for her congregation, visiting schools all over the East Coast and Midwest. Georgetown’s values made it stand out, she recalled.  “I think that if we can […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Jesuit values, School of Health, School of Nursing, Values Based Lecture

• Study Finds Adverse Impact of Climate on Mental Health in Bangladesh

  Extreme heat and humidity and other climate-related events have an alarming impact on mental health outcomes in terms of depression and anxiety in Bangladesh, the world’s seventh most vulnerable country to climate change.

  Category: News Release Tags: Bangladesh, climate change, mental health, research, School of Health

• GUMC Students Focus on Giving Back This Holiday Season

  (December 16, 2022) — In the midst of final exams and their own holiday preparations, students at the School of Health, School of Nursing and School of Medicine volunteered to spread happiness and health throughout the Georgetown community and beyond. School of Health Through Georgetown Individuals Vocal and Energetic for Service (GIVES), undergraduate students organize […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, School of Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, student experience

• Improving Population Health Through Hospital Administration

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, population health, School of Health

• School of Health Undergraduates Track Disease Outbreaks at Global Health Organizations

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: education, global health, School of Health, student experience

• School of Health Undergraduates Conduct Research in Ghana as Part of a Team of Interdisciplinary Scholars

  Two School of Health undergraduates embedded with a team of researchers say experiencing public health and cultural humility in real time has taken their global health coursework to a new level.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: global health, research, School of Health, student experience