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- Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award
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Two Fellowship Programs Honor the Legacy and Impact of Maeve Kennedy McKean
On December 8, 2023, members of the global health community at Georgetown University gathered for a luncheon with the family members of Maeve Kennedy McKean (G/L’09), the former…
January 18, 2024
- Global Health Student Fellows
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Q&A with Former Global Health Institute Student Fellow Kearney Capuano
What projects have you been working on lately? During summer 2023 I worked with my GHI student fellow faculty mentor, Dr. Kelley Anderson, and Dr. Krista A. White, associate…
November 6, 2023
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Q&A with the Global Health Institute’s New Senior Research Officer Weijun Yu
Your research focuses primarily on infectious disease outcomes in vulnerable populations. What drew you to this field? I became interested in this field after witnessing…
October 25, 2023
- Global Health Student Fellows
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Q&A with Global Health Institute Student Fellow Shreya Arora
Can you tell us about what you are currently working on? In August 2023 I moved to Tanga, Tanzania, for my senior year experiential global health course. I am working at the…
October 5, 2023
- Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award
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Inaugural Maeve Kennedy McKean Fellow Proposes Researching Indigenous Health Care in Canada
Jointly administered by the Global Health Institute and the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service, the McKean fellowship honors the legacy of Maeve Kennedy…
August 23, 2023
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Global Health Institute Grows With Jack Leslie as Senior Advisor
Leslie is an international development activist, a strategic communications executive, political consultant, and philanthropist who has spent much of the last two decades engaged…
April 27, 2023
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Georgetown University Remembers Maeve Kennedy McKean
McKean was the executive director of the Georgetown Global Health Initiative (GHI), a university-wide platform for supporting interdisciplinary research, teaching, and…
April 8, 2020
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Gender, Health, and Climate
This event brought together experts to consider an additional dimension of these movements: gender. For example, a robust body of knowledge and practice already exists under the…
October 1, 2019
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Georgetown Launches Global Health Initiative to Advance Research, Solutions
The half-day launch event on April 25 highlighted Georgetown faculty research in areas such as infectious disease and global health security. It marked the culmination of a five…
April 28, 2017