All Posts: 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

• Georgetown Students Provide Practical Nutritional Information to Families in DC Food Deserts

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, nutrition and health, nutrition education, School of Health, School of Medicine, service to others

• Pre-Orientation Program Introduces Incoming Students to Pursuing Health Care with a Social Justice Focus

  (August 19, 2022) — CURA, the only pre-orientation program at Georgetown focused on health, immerses incoming students in the Jesuit values of community and service and sets out to imbue students with the knowledge that a person cannot be healthy without addressing underlying social determinants. “CURA welcomes students to Georgetown and builds a sense of […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: CURA, School of Health, School of Nursing, social justice, student experience, student pre-orientation

• Georgetown Awarded $23.6M to Study Treatments for Acute Rhinosinusitis

  WASHINGTON (July 28, 2022) — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded a Georgetown University Medical Center research team led by Dan Merenstein, MD, professor of family medicine at Georgetown’s School of Medicine and professor of human science at the School of Health, $23.6 million in research funding to study treatments for acute rhinosinusitis. […]

  Category: News Release Tags: acute rhinosinusitis, research, School of Health, School of Medicine