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Equitable Access to Pandemic Products Demands Stronger Public Governance

In an article published in the Lancet, the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics's Matthew Kavanagh discusses how the slow arrival of vaccines to countries ravaged by mpox…

October 24, 2024

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Mapping China’s Health Assistance Projects Overseas

The Department of Global Health's Jennifer Bouey led a team at RAND Corporation to publish an interactive web tool that helps policymakers and practitioners easily find China's…

October 22, 2024

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Non-Retrogression as Progress: Protecting the Right to Health Against Private Economic Interests in Uruguay and Ecuador

The Health and Human Rights Initiative's Valentina Castagnari Aznar and Silvia Serrano Guzmá published an article in Verfassungsblog reflecting on the fragility of legal…

October 18, 2024

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Georgetown University Receives $27.5 Million to Address HIV/AIDS in Haiti

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief have awarded Georgetown $27.5 million to expand its ongoing work in Haiti…

October 18, 2024

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Factors Associated With COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake Among Populations in the West Department of Haiti

Researchers in the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact published this paper in PLOS Global Health to evaluate population characteristics related to vaccine uptake to…

October 14, 2024

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Jack Leslie Appointed Chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center Research Hospital Board

Jack Leslie, a Global Health Institute senior advisor, is an internationally renowned public health thought leader and.…

October 11, 2024

Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award
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Inaugural Maeve Kennedy McKean Fellow Presents at Global Social Justice Research Symposium

Sydney Blackston (N’25), the inaugural recipient of the Maeve McKean Global Health Award, presented her summer research at the Global Social Justice Summer Research Symposium on…

October 9, 2024

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A Sri Lankan Paradox: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Political Change

Katherine Marshall and Vinya Ariyaratne write that Sri Lanka is looking to a new era, with a newly elected executive president who comes to office after a strong popular vote for…

October 7, 2024

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Bridging Research and Policy at the Global Health Security Conference 2024

Rebecca Katz, director of the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security (CGHSS) and co-founder of the conference along with Adam Kamradt…

September 30, 2024

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Georgetown University Global Health Institute Co-Hosts Capitol Hill Briefing on the Role of Faith-Based Groups in Global Health

This briefing included a panel of faith and global health experts and was moderated by Mark Lagon, adjunct professor in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service…

September 19, 2024