Archive: Publications

• 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

• Health System Performance Unveiled: HAPI Seminar Spotlit in The Hoya

  The Hoya, Georgetown's student newspaper, highlighted our first seminar of the fall semester, "Health System Performance Unveiled" with HAPI faculty member Dr. Vincent Turbat. Dr. Adam Myers, the

  Category: News Tags: program director, Publications, seminar, student spotlight

• 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

• Changing Cultural Norms: HAPI Alum Anya Hirschfeld Published in Think Global Health

  When [Peru] released its first dataset in 2015, the numbers painted a grim picture: IPV [intimate partner violence] rates nearly three times the global average and widespread femicide...Although the

  Category: News Tags: gender, global health, Publications, research, 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

• A Hard Look at Prescribing: Program Co-Director Comments on New Opioid Study

  This February, Program Co-Director Adriane Fugh-Berman and her colleague, Judy Butler, authored an article breaking down a new study on opioid prescribing and use disorders. According to the research

  Category: News Tags: drug marketing, pharmedout, program director, Publications, research

• History Repeating? Program Co-Director Comments on “Non-Addictive” Pain Pill in The Washington Post

  This week, Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, Co-Director of the M.S. HAPI program, commented on a new pain pill set for FDA review this January. The drug is non-opioid and aims to be an alternative to pre

  Categories: Announcements, News Tags: drug marketing, program director, Publications, research

• Advocacy in Action: PharmedOut Organizes a Letter Challenging “Dangerous Disinformation”

  A recent STAT news article covers Program Co-Director Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman's organization, PharmedOut, which has organized a letter signed by multiple experts on women's health "demanding that the

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• “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