Public Health

Former Sen. Tom Daschle joined experts at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to discuss the role of technology and education in improving health care.
An interdisciplinary team of students representing the Milken Institute School of Public Health (formerly the GW School of Public Health and Health Services), the Graduate School of Education and Human Development and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences was awarded the prize for “Best…
Tara O’Toole, M.D. '81, M.P.H. will be a recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awards. The awards are the highest form of recognition that the University and the GW Alumni Association bestow upon alumni each year.
John Powers, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine, was interviewed by Earth Eats, an Indiana Public Radio Radio program, on stalled legislation requiring drug companies and farmers to sell and use antibiotics only to treat sick animals because of a well-researched connection between…
WBAL Radio reported that Michael Barr, M.D., M.B.A., assistant clinical professor of medicine, has been appointed by Governor Martin O’Malley to serve on the Maryland Health Care Commission, along with GW School of Public Health and Health Services alumni Frances Phillips.
Lawrence “Bopper” Deyton, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, co-authored a commentary published in the Lancet, titled "Understanding the Tobacco Control Act: Efforts by the US Food and Drug Administration to Make Tobacco-related Morbidity and Mortality Part of the USA’s Past, not Its Future."
George Washington University has experts available to talk about the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15.
Before the White House, a trip to the grocery store required First Lady Michelle Obama to be armed with a “finely honed plan of attack” to get in and out in 30 minutes.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Lawrence “Bopper” Deyton, M.D., ‘85, former director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will be joining the GW SMHS faculty as a clinical professor of…
Bruno Petinaux, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, talked to FOX 5 News about concerns surrounding inauguration crowds and the flu. He was also interviewed on this topic by WAMU-FM (NPR) and WTOP-FM.