Archive: Global Health

• Returning from Abroad Part Three: Featuring Ryley Zapien’s Journey Home from Australia

  April 20, 2020

  Ryley Zapien (C’21) from Bellingham, Washington only had a short time to adjust to her new life on the other side of the world in Sydney, Australia where she was studying abroad before she was sent home due to COVID-19. Though the junior had only been in the country for a month and a half, she is greatly appreciative for the time she had there and is already looking forward to returning.

  Category: News Story Tags: Global Health, Student, Study Abroad

• Georgetown Creates New Course for Students Returning from Study Abroad that Analyzes COVID-19

  April 9, 2020

  Georgetown University was one of a few institutions to create a new academic term specifically for students who were asked to return home from their study abroads due to COVID-19. One new course being offered during this term is called COVID-19: Theory and Action in a Time of Pandemic that allows the student to study the virus comprehensively in real time.

  Category: News Story Tags: Anthropology, Biology, Business, Faculty, Global Health, Global Health Science and Security, History, Immunology, Public Policy, Students, Women and Gender Studies

• Georgetown Professor Discovers Key Findings to Stop Malarial Drug Resistance

  December 4, 2019

  The malarial disease infects millions of people every year. Until recently, drugs like chloroquine (CQ) and piperaquine (PPQ) have been effective against the parasite that causes it, Plasmodium falciparum. New widespread resistance to these drugs lead Department of Chemistry professor Paul Roepe to research the mechanisms behind these new developments in an effort to stop the continued spread of the disease.

  Category: News Story Tags: Chemistry, Faculty, Global Health, Research