Global Health Academic Programs
Georgetown University takes a multidisciplinary approach to global health research and teaching.
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Student Fellows Program
Undergraduate and graduate students can work with faculty on research projects, participate in global health-related events, and network with one another and scholars in the global health field.
Jobs and Opportunities
If you’re a Georgetown student interested in learning more about global health and exploring careers in the field, check out the programs and opportunities.
Maeve McKean Global Health Award
The undergraduate McKean fellow spends their junior year on campus working to advance a faculty member’s research and is awarded $6,500 to conduct their own research the summer before their senior year.
Featured News
Q&A with Inaugural McKean Fellow Sydney Blackston
In this interview, Sydney Blackston (N‘25), the inaugural recipient of the Maeve McKean Global Health Award, discusses her fellowship experience traveling to Canada and researching how the wildfires there have affected Indigenous groups, specifically in relation to health care access and quality.
Inaugural 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 September 20, 2024.
Amara Saleem Named as the 2024-2025 Maeve McKean Global Health Fellow
As the recipient of the Maeve McKean Global Health Award, Amara Saleem (SFS’26), an undergraduate student at the School of Foreign Service, hopes to research how differentiated access to health care impacts the treatment of gestational diabetes among South Asian women.
Students Learn Language of Spiritual Healing Through Supporting Pilgrims in Lourdes
Eight students from the School of Nursing and one medical student participated in this School of Nursing annual trip to help pilgrims seeking a healing experience at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France.
Medical Students Gain Confidence with a Dose of Cultural Humility Through Summer Experience
Spring 2024 GHI student fellow Phoebe Ato (M’27) completed a monthlong medical mission to the Dominican Republic where she joined other U.S. medical students in setting up pop-up clinics to provide basic medical care.
Q&A with Former Global Health Institute Student Fellow Bryce Robinson
In this interview, Bryce Robinson (L'24), a spring 2024 GHI student fellow, discusses his recent graduation from the LL.M. program at Georgetown Law and shares his experience researching notifiable disease laws with his GHI faculty mentor, former assistant research professor Colin Carlson.
From Ill-Being to Well-Being and the Liminal States in-Between: Culminating Event & Art Exhibition
Fall 2023 GHI student fellow Janeeta Shaukat played an instrumental role in the Global Mental Health and Well-Being initiative's student-focused semester-long art campaign and April 25, 2024 art exhibition.
Global Health Alum Transforms Cambodian River Waste into Sustainable Fashion
Alyssa Erin Kardos Loera (NHS’21), a graduate of the global health program (then at the School of Nursing & Health Studies, now a part of the School of Health), credits her Georgetown experience with preparing her for her current role as CEO of ReMade in Cambodia.
Record Number of Students Share Research at Annual Undergraduate Research Conference
On April 17, 2024, Isabel Powell (C'24), a fall 2022 GHI student fellow studying biology of global health, presented her research on undocumented people’s experience with the U.S. health care system at the Undergraduate Research Conference sponsored by the School of Health.