Global Health

At the height of the Fifth International Symposium on Thymosins in Health and Disease at the George Washington University (GW), researchers Luigina Romani, MD, PhD, from the University of Perugia; Enrico Garaci, MD, from the University San Raffaele Roma; and Allan Goldstein, PhD, Professor Emeritus…

Sangeeta, Ramesh, Asha. Those are names of children whose lives were restored thanks to Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, RESD ’13, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Kohrt told their stories at his installment as the Charles and Sonia Akman Professor in Global Psychiatry.

Fourth-year GW SMHS medical student Sojung Yi’s deep interest in global health has taken her to various places around the world, including a year of global health work made possible by the GW Lazarus Scholars in Health Care Delivery program.

At the 2017 World Confederation for Physical Therapy in South Africa, a handful of platform presentation awards were announced, with faculty from GW's School of Medicine and Health Sciences scooping up two of them.

More than 3,000 miles from Washington, D.C., lies the Toledo District of Belize, where in May 2017 three Doctor of Physical Therapy (D.P.T.) students at SMHS spent six days learning about the country while also teaching its children about disability awareness.

Students and regulatory experts from around the world gathered for four days on the GW camps for the first international annual summer institute, "Issues & Trends in Regulatory Science."

The Office of International Medicine Programs invited international medical research fellows to participate in a medical mission to Haiti.

Global Mental Health Program provides unique training opportunities for residents

Faculty members from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences explained what they know and what they don’t know about the virus at a Feb. 12 town hall.

Joseph C. Kolars, M.D., analyzed the impact of global health initiatives on medical education programs at the Medical Education Grand Rounds on Dec. 4.