All Posts:women’s health

• Nursing Programs Implement Innovative Curriculum to Emphasize Health Equity

  Recognizing a need to strategically weave health equity content throughout their courses, educators in the School of Nursing’s Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) and Nurse-Midwifery (NM)/WHNP Programs designed and implemented an innovative health equity curriculum to give students the knowledge and skills they need to provide patient-centered care and promote social justice.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Berkley School of Nursing, health disparities, health equity, nurse midwifery, nursing education, population health, women's health, women's health nurse practitioner program

• For Many HIV+ Women, Daily Survival Takes Precedence Over Viral Suppression

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (May 17, 2019) — According to scientists who study women infected with HIV, statistics often paint an impressionist view of the lives of these women that misses the granular detail that tells the real story. The imprecise big picture is that most of this population is doing a good job at […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, HIV, infectious disease, population health, public health, women's health

• Personalized Medicine Clinical Trial Underway for Type of Incontinence Common in Women

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (April 2, 2019) — A novel clinical trial aims to reverse the cause of a common problem among older women — accidental urine leakage — by using a patient’s own muscle cells. The study, now underway in the Washington area, is for women with stress urinary incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence, or […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, clinical trials, personalized medicine, School of Medicine, urology, women's health

• Georgetown Alumna Conducts C-Section Research as Fulbright Grantee

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: global health, women's health