Archive: Media and Scholarship
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The Georgetown Voice Talks with Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan about Racial Disparities in Healthcare and Science
On its coverage of “Such a Time As This”, the Racial Justice and the University Series, The Georgetown Voice presents the five events held during October 2020 that brought together faculty members working in related fields to explore dimensions of racial structures in the United States, as well as the connections of their research to global questions of racial justice.
Category: Media
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“A Tale of Two Pandemics: Historical Insights on Persistent Racial Disparities” Uses the Form of Comics Journalism to Highlight Research Co-Authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan
In a “A Tale of Two Pandemics: Historical Insights on Persistent Racial Disparities,” Josh Neufeld uses the form of comics journalism to highlight research co-authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan.
Category: Media
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“Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Anna Reisman account for the invaluable insights that the humanities offer the biomedical sciences during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a means of examining themselves, their profession, and the broader social context.
Category: Scholarship
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“The COVID-19 Syndemic Is Not Global: Context Matters”
In this publication, Emily Mendenhall argues that, before defining a disease like COVID-19 as a syndemic, we need to look at the context first.
Category: Scholarship
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Readings and Talks featuring Valeria Luiselli
Evening with award-winning novelist and essayist, Valeria Luiselli. This event was moderated by Lannan Center Director and author Aminatta Forna and was cosponsored by the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“Bats, Battiness, and the COVID-19 Pandemic”
John McNeill reflects on the ways that have made the pandemic an environmental history event.
Category: Scholarship
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“Taking Pandemic Sequelae Seriously: From the Russian Influenza to COVID-19 Long-Haulers”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Mark Honigsbaum look back to the Russian influenza and the historical accounts of the sequelae to make sense of the experience of the COVID-19 long-haulers in the present.
Category: Scholarship
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“Why African Americans Were More Likely to Die During the 1918 Flu Pandemic”, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Explains in the History Channel
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan explains how African Americans lived during the 1918 influenza epidemic to the History Channel.
Category: Media
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Ella Castanier Writes about the Policies to Combat Future Pandemics that GU Professors Recommend for The Hoya
Ella Castanier (COL’24) presents the recommendations for pandemic preparedness provided by Georgetown professors at the Center for Global Health Science and Security Alexandra Phelan and Rebecca Katz in “Governance Preparedness: Initial Lessons from COVID-19”.
Category: Media
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“Past Pandemics and Climate Variability Across the Mediterranean”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors explore potential associations between pandemic disease and climate in Mediterranean history. They make sense of the influence that meteorological, climatological and environmental factors had on historical disease outbreaks.
Category: Scholarship