Public Health

Vaccines save millions of lives each year. But they can only be truly effective if every individual has both the opportunity and the willingness to be vaccinated. In response to…

Dr. Ranit Mishori (center), medical director at the COVID-19 high-capacity vaccination site at D.C.’s Entertainment and Sports Arena, observes as Leon Padillia, nurse for MedStar Georgetown Student Health Center,…

Ebony Marcelle (NHS'05) says that midwives like herself play critical roles in the lives of Black women and their babies.

At age 33, Maria Gomez (N'77) with a group of idealistic friends opened Mary's Center in a D.C. basement to offer prenatal care for women migrants. Thirty years later, they…

Although global malaria mortality rates fell by 60% over the past 15 years, drug-resistant malarial parasites are on the rise…