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Summer 2026

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Building the conditions to thrive

Thrive Center for Children, Families and Communities and its Innovation Hub carry forward 50-year legacy of Georgetown’s holistic work supporting mental health.

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Reshaping the future of global health

As the field undergoes major upheaval, a reimagined architecture emerges centering countries’ health sovereignty and communities of practice.

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From the Hilltop to the Hill

Georgetown’s Berkley School of Nursing leads in policy education and engagement to promote optimal health for all.

On campus

MedStar Health and Georgetown CONVERGE toward innovative care

Get to know President Peñalver

Grant supports brain health research at GUMC

Preparing nursing students to treat the whole patient

Recent graduates head to New Zealand and India as Fulbright scholars

Breathe Easy proposal wins award at 2025 DC Public Health Case Challenge

The community we are Called to Be

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Reflections on Health with Shantel Hébert-Magee (M’05), M.D., MPH, Louisiana Department of Health

I grew up in New Orleans. My family has been here for nine generations. There’s a strong sense of community, ancestral veneration, and Catholicism. This cultural mélange makes Louisiana unique.

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Alumni connections

Nursing alumnus navigates federal career

One alumna’s dedication to funding the common good

Tools of the Trade

Health alumna offers guidance, resources for caregivers

Georgetown and the Institute for Natural Medicine are developing a MedStar Health-accredited continuing medical education course teaching clinicians how to incorporate evidence-based whole person health strategies into everyday practice. Photo: iStock

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From the Archives

The Georgetown Special Master’s Program in Physiology & Biophysics, better known as the SMP, celebrates 50 years since its first graduation. The one-year program, developed by renowned Georgetown faculty Lawrence Lillenfield, M.D., Ph.D., and Estelle Ramey, Ph.D. (pictured in the photo’s foreground), helps college graduates hone their credentials before applying to medical schools. Cohorts work alongside Georgetown medical students, practice their skills in labs and workshops, and volunteer in the local community. Alumni have gone on to study at more than 150 medical schools worldwide.

Photo: The Apollonian, 1975 / Georgetown University Archives

Check up

Giving voice to the patient perspective

Postpartum health care, social support

Cancer symposium highlights emerging technologies

Reversing immune suppression in pancreatic cancer

Study examines GLP-1 stigma

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GUMC student spaces benefit from recent philanthropy

A recent gift from philanthropist Joan Ferrill funded a renovation of the Med-Dent Student Annex. The newly renovated annex provides medical students with dedicated study space and small group study rooms, as well as a comfortable lounge and kitchen area.

Photo: Lisa Helfert

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