Dangerous Fentanyl “Candy” Off the Market: Program Co-Director Adriane Fugh-Berman Published in The Kansas City Star
Last week, Program Co-Director Adriane Fugh-Berman published an opinion piece with PharmedOut colleague Judy Butler in The Kansas City Star. The piece covers the rise and fall of fentanyl lollipops,…
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.…
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.…
Why Blow the Whistle
Elliott relayed the story at a virtual seminar on whistleblowing Wednesday afternoon hosted by the Health and the Public Interest program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He spoke about how the case turned him into a whistleblower, how he investigated other cases of whistleblowing for a recent book and offered tips for health professionals who want to call out wrongdoing.…
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…
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.…
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…
HAPI Students at the FDA Advisory Committee Meeting
On September 13, 2019, the Health and Public Interest students at Georgetown University had a strong showing at FDA Peanut Allergy Advisory Committee Meeting. Students were in attendance to learn…
HAPI Faculty on Tonight with John Oliver
Dr. Fugh-Berman on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver…
HAPI Student Reflects on Past and Future
Blake Hite reflects on his experience of how the HAPI program meshes with the Faculty Aide program at Harvard Extension School…
