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A Conversation with Ms. Lisa Carty: The Role of Multilateral Organizations in Addressing the Fragmentations in Secondary Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, Ms. Lisa Carty, the director of the Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of…

April 15, 2021

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Establishing Collective Action in Health: A Conversation with Dr. Margaret Hamburg

On March 9, 2021, the Conversations in Global Health lecture series welcomed Dr. Margaret Hamburg , foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine. Prior to her…

March 14, 2021

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Reflections on a Conversation with Dr. Margaret Hamburg: Career Shifts and Work Straddling the Fields of Medicine, Public Health, and Policy

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, Dr. Margaret Hamburg joined the Conversations in Global Health class  for a discussion spanning the many facets of her career, from her early…

March 14, 2021

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A Conversation with Dr. Eric Goosby: The Window of Opportunity

On February 23, Dr. Eric Goosby, a notable infectious disease expert, joined Georgetown University’s Conversations in Global Health class . Throughout the discussion, Dr.…

February 27, 2021

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A Conversation with Dr. Eric Goosby

Through the course “Conversations in Global Health ,” students were joined by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Tuberculosis, Dr. Eric Goosby. Previously, Dr.…

February 27, 2021

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Dr. Eric Goosby Reflects on HIV/AIDS and the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

On February 23, Georgetown University’s Conversations in Global Health class met with Dr. Eric Goosby  over Zoom. Dr. Goosby is a public health official and academic…

February 27, 2021

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Dr. Bruce Gellin on COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

On February 9, 2021, the School of Foreign Service’s Conversations in Global Health course welcomed Dr. Bruce Gellin to discuss vaccines and the current COVID-19 vaccination…

February 17, 2021

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A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Gellin: The Need for Connection

“Connection” is the word I would use to summarize the conversation with Dr. Bruce Gellin, the president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute who previously served as the deputy…

February 17, 2021

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Global Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Gellin

On Tuesday, February 9, 2021, Georgetown’s Conversations in Global Health class hosted Dr. Bruce Gellin, President of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, to…

February 17, 2021

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Taking a Picture of Health Awareness

At the end of four years of studying Integrative Health Promotion, my classmates and I compared pictures of us from our first year of undergrad with more recent ones. We noticed…

March 15, 2020