Archive:Health Justice

• HAPI Student Wins Lyn Howard Nutrition Award from ASPEN!

  Congratulations are in order for Molly Yeselson, MS 2026, on winning the Lyn Howard Nutrition Support Consumer Advocacy Award from American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN)! Check o

  Category: News Tags: advocacy, awards, Health Justice, nutrition, student spotlight

• Getting the Story Straight on Menopause: Program Co-Director Comments in New Opinion Piece

  From NPR to Oprah, "menopause awareness and support" bills are popping up in the news. Is this a step forward for women's health, or a step back into medical misinformation? In a new opinion piece

  Category: News Tags: advocacy, gender, Health Justice, program director, Publications, research

• Menopausal Hormone Therapy: Limited Benefits, Significant Harms

  Program Co-Director Adriane Fugh-Berman and colleague Dr. Mintzes recently published an editorial in the American Family Physician Journal highlighting the shaky evidence for menopausal hormone thera

  Category: News Tags: health and gender, Health Justice, program director, Publications, research

• Ukraine, “Single Biggest Loser?” Anya Hirschfeld ’24 on USAID Budget Cuts

  Amid sweeping budget cuts, Ukraine has become the “single biggest loser” of USAID funding…and its healthcare workers are feeling the strain. Last week, Anya Hirschfeld (MS ‘24) published an articl

  Category: News Tags: advocacy, Health Justice, Publications, student spotlight

• RFK Jr.’s Immunity to Scientific Evidence is Dangerous: Co-Director Comments

  As a physician with a long career in alternative medicine and who opposes pharmaceutical marketing, you might think I have a lot in common with Robert F Kennedy Jr. You’d be wrong. Dr. Adriane Fugh-

  Category: News Tags: advocacy, Health Justice, program director, Publications

• “80% of Adolescents” at Risk: The Hoya Features HAPI Seminar in New Article

  The Hoya, Georgetown’s student newspaper, published an article on a HAPI seminar featuring Dr. Charles Hillman on Physical Activity, Adiposity, and Brain Health in Children. The recap covers his pres

  Category: News Tags: Health Justice, Publications, seminar, seminar series

• Reproductive Justice: The Hoya Highlights Health and the Public Interest Seminar with Dr. Marea

  On September 20th, The Hoya, Georgetown’s oldest and largest student newspaper, published an article highlighting a recent seminar hosted by the M.S. Health and the Public Interest program, titled “Operationalizing Reproductive Justice in Health Services Research and Policy To Address Perinatal Health Disparities.”

  Category: News Tags: Health Justice, Publications, seminar, Social Justice

• 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 Tags: advocacy, hapi, Health Justice, Publications, Social Justice

• 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

  Category: News Tags: Health Justice, local news, Publications, student spotlight

• 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 mor

  Categories: Advocacy, News Story Tags: advocacy, fda, Health Justice, student spotlight