All Posts: social justice

• 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

• 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