Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“America Should Prepare for a Double Pandemic”, The Atlantic Explores Emily Mendenhall’s Research
On its coverage of America’s need to prepare for new disease outbreaks, The Atlantic highlights Emily Mendenhall’s research about syndemics and the influence that every aspect of society has on public health.
Category: Media
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“Cripistemologies of Crisis: Emergent Knowledges for the Present”
Theodora Danylevich and Alyson Patsavas introduce the essays in “Cripistemologies of Crisis: Emergent Knowledges for the Present”, the Spring 2021 issue of the Lateral Journal.
Category: Scholarship
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“Seeing COVID-19 through José Saramago’s Blindness”
Daniel Marchalik and Dmitriy Petrov propose an approach to the novel Blindness, which would allow us to process the emotional devastation, socioeconomic impacts, and pressures on front-line health-care workers that continue to shape our world.
Category: Scholarship
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“Practicing Serious Illness Conversations in Graduate Medical Education”
Dr. Michael Pottash and his co-authors address the lack of routine practice opportunities in medical training to have a serious illness conversation, including discussing patients’ expectations, concerns, and preferences regarding an advancing illness. By testing incorporating a serious illness conversation into routine trainee practice, they found that trainees found it to be an important addition to their routine practice. Patients found the conversation to be important, reassuring, and of better quality than their usual visits.
Category: Scholarship
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The Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies Presents Report, Co-Authored by Dr. Christopher King, on Health Disparities in the Black Community
The Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies presents the Health Disparities in the Black Community: An Imperative for Racial Equity in the District of Columbia, co-authored by Dr. Christopher King. This report illuminates entrenched health and socioeconomic disparities that help explain why approximately three quarters of the deaths associated with COVID-19 in Washington DC have been among the African American community.
Category: Media
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“Health Disparities in the Black Community: An Imperative for Racial Equity in the District of Columbia”
This publication, with Dr. Christopher King as lead author, illuminates the entrenched health and socioeconomic disparities that help explain why approximately three quarters of the deaths associated with COVID-19 in Washington DC have been among the African American community.
Category: Scholarship
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“Views among Malawian Women about Joining HIV Prevention Clinical Trials when Pregnant”
Maggie Little and her co-authors conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with reproductive-aged women in Malawi, in order to understand their views about participating in biomedical HIV prevention research during pregnancy.
Category: Scholarship
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The Health Disparities Podcast: Both Pandemic and Syndemic – How Clusters of Preexisting Comorbid Conditions Have Driven Up Fatalities, featuring Emily Mendenhall and Robert Like
Emily Mendenhall and Robert Like discuss the syndemic concept with host Mary O’Connor, to explain why certain populations are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, and offer insights into potential solutions.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“Covering COVID-19? Perhaps Leave the Black Death and Great Influenza Out of It”, Timothy Newfield Writes on the Georgetown Environmental History Blog
In this piece, published on the Georgetown Environmental History blog, Timothy Newfield argues against the trend to compare COVID-19 with other pandemics in history.
Category: Media
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The Convergence Podcast, Episode 9: “COVID-19 and the Future of Bio-Security” with James Giordano
James Giordano talks about COVID-19, the effect of this pandemic on the Nation, its impact on national security, and the potential implications on future bio-security.
Categories: Media, Past events