Global Health Institute

The Global Health Initiative’s fellowship has granted me the opportunity to engage in dynamic conversations about global health with students from an array of schools and majors at Georgetown. I appreciate that we have stressed the importance of global health’s interdisciplinary nature in our discussions. However, it is imperative to notice that this nature extends beyond the variety of professions global health encompasses. I affirm that any leader working towards social impact or to secure human rights is a global health leader, even when their goals are not explicitly health-centered.

On November 9, 2018, Jonathan D. Quick, M.D., MPH, came to Georgetown to discuss his new book, The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It. Dr. Quick’s book is concerned primarily with modern epidemics and how future epidemics can be prevented, treated, and controlled before they become global pandemics. During his talk, Dr. Quick reviewed past pandemics, from the 1918 Influenza pandemic which killed 50 to 100 million people globally to the 2002 SARS epidemic in Hong Kong which spread to 27 countries within a matter of weeks.