• Race, Racism and Health: Evidence and Opportunities

    Dr. David R. Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will speak on, “Race, Racism and Health: Evidence and Opportunities.” This new seminar series, “Racial Justice: Health and Health Care Perspectives,” is a part of Georgetown’s Institute for Racial Justice and co-sponsored with the School of Nursing & Health Studies. (Photo: Harvard School of Public Health)

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  • Reducing Health Disparities – The Importance of Place Based Solutions

    Dr. Darrell J. Gaskin, William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will speak on, “Reducing Health Disparities – The Importance of Place Based Solutions.” This new seminar series, “Racial Justice: Health and Health Care Perspectives,” is a part of Georgetown’s Institute for Racial Justice and co-sponsored with the School of Nursing & Health Studies.

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  • KIDS MOBILE Medical Clinic Celebrates 20 Years, Featured in the Washington Post

    “Mobile works because it take down geographic barriers to health services; it takes down cultural barriers,” says Georgetown’s Levy, standing outside the van on First St. in Southeast Washington on a recent Friday afternoon. “We’re here. We’ve been here. We’re part of the community.” By Victoria St. Martin for The Washington Post.

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  • Students’ Award-winning Proposal Takes Aim at Hate Crimes

    “This competition shed some light on how much an interdisciplinary approach can have a positive impact in public health,” says team member, Darshana Prakasam, a senior in the McDonough School of Business.

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  • Health Disparities: Exposing a Paradox in the Nation’s Capital

    Moderated by local news personality Andrea Roane, morning co-anchor of 9News Now and breast cancer advocate, the panel featured three Georgetown experts: Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, associate director for minority health and health disparities research, associate dean for community health and outreach, and professor of oncology; Carole Roan Gresenz, PhD, Bette Jacobs Endowed Professor at Georgetown’s School of Nursing & Health Studies; and Phyllis Magrab, PhD, professor of pediatrics and director of Georgetown’s Center for Child and Human Development.

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  • Dr. Breland-Noble Appointed to PCORI Health Disparities Panel

    Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, PhD, MHSc, assistant professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center, has been selected to join the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)’s Advisory Panel on Addressing Disparities. The newly established panel announced April 1 is one of four such panels approved by the PCORI board of governors to help guide the work at the institute. “I am committed to honoring the strengths and addressing the challenges in racially and ethnically diverse communities as we work toward reducing mental and behavioral health disparities,” Dr. Breland-Noble says.

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  • Georgetown Lombardi Puts Health Disparities on the Big Screen

    Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center recently shone the spotlight on the stark health disparities in Washington, DC, by dimming the lights for a movie screening. At a March 28 event at the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum, Georgetown Lombardi screened the documentary, “Health: When Sex, Race and Location Matter” for an audience of partner organizations and individuals from throughout the city.

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  • Panel: Mental Health a Complex Combo of Genetics, Biology, Environment

    What explains the ability of a 94-year-old brain injury victim to recover fully in just a few weeks, while a healthy 35-year-old who sustained a similar injury might suffer the effects for several months or a year? Not surprisingly, the answer to this question and many others involving mental health is complex and multifactorial, involving a host of variables including genetics, biology, environmental factors and social factors. It turns out that the “hardwiring” of the human brain is just the tip of the iceberg in mental health. It’s the interplay of brain circuitry with an array of other factors that yields the true picture.

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  • AAKOMA Project Spotlights Mental Health Disparities in Minority Youth

    Dr. Breland-Noble, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center, directs the African-American Knowledge Optimized for Mindfully-Healthy Adolescents (AAKOMA) Project at Georgetown University. AAKOMA’s team of academic researchers and community volunteers uses a community-engaged, patient-centered approach to figure out how to get African-Americans and other minority adolescents into treatment for depression.

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  • Student-driven Triathlon Benefits Hoya Clinic

    Thirty-two competitors swam, biked and ran for a cause during the 14th annual IronMed Charity Triathlon, which raised more than $10,000 to benefit the Hoya Clinic. The triathalon and a 5K run were held on Georgetown’s campus April 6. “The Hoya Clinic forms such an iconic part of each medical student’s experience here at Georgetown, and is truly a reflection of cura personalis, or care for the whole person,” says Jessica Howard (M’16). “Keeping the clinic open is not only important for the people it serves, but also to help train the Georgetown medical students to become the best clinicians they can be.”

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