All Posts: School of Health

• 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

• HOYA Summer Medical Academy Inspires School of Health First Year Student

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: high school programs, School of Health, student experience

• Washington-area Health Leaders Gather for School of Health Celebration

  (July 1, 2022) — Leaders from Washington-area foundations, organizations and agencies engaged in work to alleviate health disparities joined with friends, family and Georgetown colleagues for an early celebration of the new School of Health launching July 1. The gathering in Georgetown on June 23 had been postponed in April due to COVID and was […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health disparities, School of Health

• Launch of New School of Health Offers Pivotal Moment to Reimagine Health Sciences at Georgetown

  (July 1, 2022) — A moment nearly three years in the making, Georgetown’s new School of Health launched July 1, borne out of a University-wide strategic planning initiative to chart the future of health sciences at Georgetown. Georgetown President John J. DeGioia announced in December 2020 the sunsetting of the School of Nursing & Health […]

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• Undergraduates Study Respiratory Viruses from Bench to Bedside in School of Health-Led Internship in Argentina

  (July 1, 2022) — Georgetown undergraduates taking part in the Translational Health Science Internship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, learned what patients with respiratory viruses experience by seeing how discoveries are made at the molecular level and then applying this knowledge to diagnosing patients. The program, led by the School of Health’s human science department, included […]

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