Archive: News
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HAPI Alumni Research Appears in Heart Failure Reviews
The analysis, which appeared in June’s Heart Failure Reviews, was also authored by Emily Couvillon Alagha, Emma Mykityshyn, and Casey French at Georgetown and Erin P. Ferranti and Carolyn Miller Reilly at Emory University.
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Professor Maxine Weinstein Awarded $8.2 Million for Research at Georgetown on Aging
The National Institute on Aging has renewed funding for the study on Midlife in the United States (MIDUS). Professor Maxine Weinstein, whose research contributions to the study focus on the behavioral and biological dimensions of aging, is the principal investigator for the Georgetown arm of the biomarker subproject who will lead the $8.2 million award over the next six years.
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HAPI’s Focus on Advocacy Highlighted in Health Affairs
The HAPI Program and its advocacy course requirement was recently mentioned in the Health Affairs article "Public Health Advocacy Must Be Taught". The article notes, "of the 68 accredited schools of
Categories: Advocacy, Announcements, News, News Story
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What is Mild Cognitive Impairment? Patricia Bencivenga ’21 Publishes Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun
Patricia Bencivenga '21 recently published an Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun alongside Program Director Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman on Alzheimer's and overprescribing of treatments. Patricia is currently wor
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Food Swamps: HAPI Students Publish Op-Ed in Washington Post
To this day, only three of the 49 full-service grocery stores in D.C. are located in Wards 7 and 8...Despite rapid economic development in D.C. from 2010 to 2020, Wards 7 and 8 lost four of their se
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HAPI Students Testify at FDA Meeting
On March 24, 2021, two of our HAPI students, Sophia Phillips and Kelvin Blade, testified at the FDA’s joint meeting of the Arthritis Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisor
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New Master’s Program Explores Societal Influences on Health
Medicine today is said to be “evidence-based” — practiced on the basis of cumulative clinical studies. But for the physicians and researchers involved in launching the newest master’s degree program at Georgetown University, medical evidence isn’t enough.
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HAPI Student Research Public in the BMJ Health & Care Informatics Journal
Emily Alagha '19 recently published an article "Evaluating the quality of voice assistants’ responses to consumer health questions about vaccines: an exploratory comparison of Alexa, Google Assistant
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