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08.01.18

Georgetown’s Lawrence Gostin on Presumed New Ebola Outbreak in DRC

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By Felix Swierski

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Karen Teber / km463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (Aug 1, 2018) – Today, the World Health Organization announced that preliminary laboratory testing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) indicates “a cluster of cases of Ebola virus in North Kivu province.” The DRC announced last month that the Ebola outbreak that began earlier this […]

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Thematic Areas: Food & Drug Law Global Health Policy & Politics

06.21.18

Addressing the Politicization of U.S. Health Care and Public Health Services

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By O'Neill User

CONTACT: Karen Teber / km463@georgetown.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA ADVISORY Addressing the Politicization of U.S. Health Care and Public Health Services WASHINGTON (June 21, 2018) — The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law hosts a two day symposium addressing controversies and challenges facing the U.S. health care today including legalization of marijuana, gun […]

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06.06.18

United National Interactive Preparatory Hearing on Tuberculosis

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By John Richards

Statement by Matthew M. Kavanagh, PhD Director, Global Health Policy & Governance Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at Georgetown University Matthew.Kavanagh@georgetown.edu We start off by echoing the call by the Executive Director of Stop TB for bold action and political leadership. We emphasize the political part. Member states have committed to […]

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06.05.18

Georgetown Researchers: Swift Action Needed to Avoid Large Deadly Nipah Outbreak

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By John Richards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Karen Teber / Km463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (June 5, 2018) — While the world population may know little about increasing outbreaks of the killer Nipah virus – despite the fact that one is ongoing now in India – some infectious disease experts see a potential future global health crisis. In an article […]

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05.31.18

Should FDA Try to Move Smokers to E-cigarettes and Other Less-Harmful Tobacco Products and, If So, How?

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By John Richards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Karen Teber / km463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON May 31, 2018 — A comprehensive new strategy for moving smokers to e-cigarettes offers the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) numerous options for sharply reducing health harms and deaths from smoking that should be endorsed by public health e-cigarette harm-reduction “skeptics” and “enthusiasts,” alike, as […]

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05.18.18

A Mother, an Outreach Coordinator and a Cancer Survivor: Faces of the Hepatitis C Epidemic

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By O'Neill Institute

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Karen Teber / km463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (May 18, 2018) — A new report published ahead of Hepatitis Testing Day on May 19 tells the compelling stories of several men and women who are facing down hepatitis C, revealing the need to do more to eliminate its damaging effects. “Full of Life: The […]

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03.23.18

Opinion: President Should Declare Gun Violence a Public Health Emergency

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By O'Neill Institute

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: Friday, March 23, 2018; 11:00 a.m. ET CONTACT: Karen Teber/km463@georgetown.edu Opinion: President Should Declare Gun Violence a Public Health Emergency WASHINGTON –  Two leading public health law scholars ­– from Georgetown Law and Stanford Law School – call on President Donald J. Trump to declare gun violence a public health emergency. Writing […]

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03.22.18

Report Examines Federal Investment in HIV Prevention Ahead of AIDSWatch

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By O'Neill Institute

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Teber / km463@georgetown.edu Report Examines Federal Investment in HIV Prevention Ahead of AIDSWatch Continued federal investments needed to keep driving down new infections WASHINGTON (March 22, 2018) – As HIV/AIDS advocacy groups prepare to gather here on March 26 and 27 for AIDSWatch, the nation’s largest annual constituent-based national HIV/AIDS […]

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02.07.18

Misuse of “Health and Humanitarian” Reasoning to Pardon Human Rights Atrocities

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By O'Neill Institute

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Karen Teber / km463@georgetown.edu Amicus curiae presented to Inter-American Court of Human Rights challenging the presidential pardon of former President Alberto Fujimori in Peru WASHINGTON (February 7, 2018) — A prominent human rights attorney with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law has presented an amicus curiae in […]

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