Category: Global Health Seminars
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- Global Health Seminars
The European Union’s Response to COVID-19 and EU Health Security Law
In this seminar, Michael A. Stoto, professor emeritus in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Health at Georgetown, discussed the European public…
October 26, 2022
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Practical, Field-Tested Approaches to Implementing Laboratory Biosafety in Conflict-Prone Settings
In this seminar, Erin Sorrell, then assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University, discussed her research in Libya to identify…
October 12, 2022
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Participatory Action Research on Cross-sector Collaboration around Climate Event Recovery: Ghana and Northern California
In this seminar, Jessica Kritz, assistant professor in Georgetown University’s Department of Global Health, shared the stories of two cities—Accra, Ghana and Chico, California…
September 28, 2022
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Climate and Infectious Disease: The View from the Event Horizon
In this seminar, Colin J. Carlson, assistant research professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science & Security, discussed the link between climate…
September 14, 2022
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Saving Lives, Transforming Health Systems: PEPFAR’s Past, Present and Future
Since its inception in 2003, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has moved the HIV pandemic from tragedy toward triumph. PEPFAR has saved more…
November 19, 2021
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Biosafety and Biosecurity: A Foundation for Regional Health Security in the Caribbean
In honor of October being National Biosafety Month in the United States, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Program (ERGP) hosted Georgetown University’s monthly Global Health Security…
October 14, 2021
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Inoculating Cities: Case Studies of Urban Pandemic Preparedness
Cities and urban areas are uniquely vulnerable to large-scale infectious outbreaks due to their dense and highly mobile populations, status as global transit hubs, persistent…
September 9, 2021
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Governance and COVID-19: Implications for Future Health Security Policy
As the world moves into a new sense of normalcy post-COVID-19, we reflect on the lessons we’ve learned, and ask how we can apply them to create a better prepared, more secure…
April 23, 2021
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Predict and Prevent: The Viral Emergence Research Initiative
Will we ever actually be able to predict and prevent the next pandemic? Forecasting viral emergence requires scientists to connect the basic building blocks of host-virus…
March 19, 2021
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COVID-19 in Latin America: Putting Policy in Context
This event launched a series of research briefs at the intersection of COVID-19 policy and impact in Latin America. Undergraduate and graduate student researchers working at the…
February 26, 2021