Claire Standley
School of Medicine
Claire Standley is an associate professor with the Center for Global Health Science and Security at the Medical Center, with a primary faculty appointment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the analysis of health systems strengthening and international capacity building for public health.
February 3, 2025
News: Georgetown University Launches Two New Projects to Strengthen Laboratory and Public Health Systems in Africa and Asia
Georgetown University has launched two new projects to address global health challenges in Rwanda, Nigeria, Iraq, and Bangladesh. These projects focus on combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improving laboratory preparedness for future public…
May 13, 2024
News: Course Correcting the U.S. Response to Bird Flu
The Center for Global Health Science and Security's Claire Standley co-wrote an article published in Think Global Health critiquing the United States' initial response to the outbreak of a strain of avian influenza virus.
March 19, 2024
News: Assessing One Health Capacities for Transboundary Zoonotic Diseases at the Libya-Tunisia Border
In an article for One Health Outlook, the Center for Global Health Science and Security's Lauren Miller and Claire Standley discuss a tool to analyze operational capacities between national and subnational-level human and animal health stakeholders…
February 23, 2024
News: Strengthening Use of Emergency Operations Centers for Epidemic Response
Researchers at the Center for Global Health Science & Security demonstrate that a website, www.epidemic-em.org, encompassing “static” resources, videos, and other tools, can strengthen public health emergency management capacity during epidemic…
February 16, 2024
News: Governance and Public Health Decision-Making During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review
In this article published in Public Health Reviews, Sumegha Asthana, Claire Standley, Sanjana Mukherjee, and Alexandra Phelan provide an in-depth understanding of how governance and decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic has been empirically…
February 1, 2024
News: Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Hesitancy Among Health Care Workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Center for Global Health Science and Security's Claire Standley and Alanna Fogarty collaborated on a study assessing the magnitude and associated factors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health care workers in seven provinces in the Democratic…
January 12, 2024
News: COVID-19 Vaccine Access and the Intersection of Gender and Displacement
The Center for Global Health Science & Security's Claire Standley contributed a chapter on "COVID-19 vaccine access and the intersection of gender and displacement" in a research handbook published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
September 15, 2023
News: National and Subnational Governance and Decision-making Processes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
In an article published by BMJ Global Health, researchers at Georgetown's Center for Global Health Practice and Impact and Center for Global Health Science and Security discuss health emergency governance processes in Nigeria.
June 23, 2022
News: Fall 2021 GHI Fellow Research Showcases the Interdisciplinary Nature of Global Health
Every semester, the Global Health Initiative Student Fellows Program matches students with a faculty mentor so that they may work on the faculty member's research project. This article showcases four student-faculty pairs and their work during the…
September 20, 2021
News: The Future of Zoonotic Risk Prediction
The Royal Society article "The future of zoonotic risk prediction" reviews technologies for surveillance of zoonotic diseases to detect and prevent future infectious threats. Georgetown-affiliated co-authors include Colin Carlson, Alexandra Phelan…
May 19, 2021
News: GHI Student Fellowship Unites Student Researchers and Faculty Mentors to Advance Georgetown’s Global Health Efforts
As the academic year comes to an end, the spring 2021 GHI student fellows are wrapping up a semester of hard work and invaluable mentorship. Read reflections from students and faculty mentors on their diverse research projects and experiences.
September 18, 2020
News: New Paper on Assessment of Electronic Disease Early Warning System in Yemen
Clare J. Standley (Center for Global Health Science & Security) recently co-wrote a BMC research article to assess the national electronic Disease Early Warning System in Yemen (eDEWS) and argued that the quality and timeliness of responses are major…
August 3, 2020
News: Georgetown Outbreak Activity Library (GOAL) Launches
Launched July 31, 2020, the Georgetown Outbreak Activity Library (GOAL) provides a platform that shares resources throughout all phases of outbreak management, from preparedness to recovery. Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and…
March 22, 2023
Epidemiology and Etiologies of Acute Febrile Illness: Implications for Epidemic Preparedness and Health Systems Resilience Event
In this seminar, Claire Standley, associate research professor at Georgetown University, shared her research focusing on multisectoral approaches to health systems strengthening and international capacity building for public health, with an emphasis…
October 1, 2020
On the Tyrannies of 'Local Health' Event
Georgetown University Launches Two New Projects to Strengthen Laboratory and Public Health Systems in Africa and Asia Feature
Combating AMR is an increasing priority in global health. A 2024 study published in The Lancet revealed alarming trends from 1990 to 2021, where AMR claimed over one million lives worldwide. While deaths among children under five declined by 50%…
Fall 2021 GHI Fellow Research Showcases the Interdisciplinary Nature of Global Health Feature
Read on to meet four of the GHI fellows and their mentors from the fall 2021 semester.
Andrés Constatin and Kayla Zamanian
Kayla Zamanian (SFS’23), a science, technology, and international affairs major with minors in French and medical humanities…
GHI Student Fellowship Unites Student Researchers and Faculty Mentors to Advance Georgetown’s Global Health Efforts Feature
The program, launched in fall 2017, pairs student fellows with faculty in the global health field from Georgetown’s Main Campus, Medical Center, and Georgetown Law. By bringing together students and faculty across schools and departments, the…
Center for Global Health Science and Security Georgetown Unit
Launched in 2016, the Center for Global Health Science and Security at the Georgetown University Medical Center conducts original, multidisciplinary research to help decision-makers worldwide build sustainable capacities to prevent, detect, and…
Department of Microbiology and Immunology Georgetown Unit
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic department in the Medical Center offering master, Ph.D., and certificate programs concerned with the study of the immunological and biological properties of bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
Georgetown University Medical Center Georgetown Unit
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) is an internationally recognized academic medical center focused on research, teaching, and patient care.
