Health Equity
GW medicine and health sciences students, along with staff and faculty teamed up for Commitment to Community Day.
Perry Payne, M.D., J.D., M.P.P., an assistant professor of clinical research and leadership, played a key role in the development of a new web portal, D.C. Health Matters, which allows researchers, community-based organizations, and consumers to go online and look at crucial health statistics and…
Ivor Horn, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, was quoted by Healthcare IT News from a presentation she gave on ways minority populations can benefit from health IT.
Utsha Khatri’s first exposure to medicine was from the perspective of treating the underserved. She believes that multiple factors influence a patient’s prospects for good health — education, stress, access to healthy foods, etc.
On Thursday, August 23, students at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science (SMHS) will put down their books and study materials to help those in need at this year’s Commitment to Community Day. Hundreds of faculty, students, residents, staff, and alumni will spend…
Gloria Wilder, M.D., M.P.H., president and CEO of Core Health, arrived more than an hour late to the Interdisciplinary Student Community-Oriented Prevention Enhancement Service’s (ISCOPES) end-of-year celebration at the George Washington University, April 17. Despite leaving her home near Manassas…
Alex Fortenko, M.P.H. ‘11, a first-year medical student in the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), says it’s a minor miracle when he catches a meal outside of Ross Hall. Between classes, exams, and studying, grocery shopping sinks to the bottom of the to-do…
What do the New York Subway system, the Peace Corps, and GW’s Interdisciplinary Student Community-Oriented Prevention Enhancement Service (ISCOPES) have in common?
Some people tell Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) that she is lucky to be alive. But Wasserman Schultz, who battled a particularly lethal type of breast cancer, attributes her survival to more than luck.
Playing the role of a 46-year-old African American woman with a lump in her breast was a trying experience for Ireal Johnson, a first-year medical student at the GW Medical Center, who found herself shuffled between examination rooms and specialists during the third annual “A Walk in my Shoes…