CHroniCles Website to Be Preserved at Geiger Gibson Program

The RCHN Community Health Foundation (RCHN CHF) and the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health today announced that with the sunset of RCHN CHF, the Foundation’s...
9-Jun-2022 10:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Researchers Discover New Species of Salamander From Gulf Coastal Plains Hotspot

A team of researchers led by R. Alexander Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Associate Professor of Biology at the George Washington University, has discovered a new species of swamp-dwelling dusky salamander from the Gulf Coastal Plain of southeastern...
3-May-2022 9:40 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New Study Shows How Historical Redlining Policies Impacts Access to Behavioral Health Services

Researchers at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health found that the structurally racist policy of redlining in the past, is associated with current disparities in the availability of behavioral health clinicians...
28-Apr-2022 1:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Unionized Nursing Homes Experienced Lower COVID-19 Resident Mortality and Worker Infection Rates

Residents and workers at unionized nursing homes experienced lower mortality and infection rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the journal Health Affairs.
20-Apr-2022 4:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Workforce Tracker Finds Large Variation in Healthcare Providers Offering Behavioral Health Services Nationwide

As the world enters the third year of the pandemic, concerns about the behavioral health workforce crisis are making national headlines in the United States. In response, President Biden has made strengthening the behavioral health workforce a...
19-Apr-2022 10:10 AM EDT Add to Favorites

GW’s Milken Institute School of Public Health Receives Largest Gift by Faculty to Fund Unique Center for Community Health for Caribbean and Latin America

The Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University announced it has received a record setting donation from a faculty member, which will establish the Gill-Lebovic Center for Community Health in the Caribbean and Latin...
13-Apr-2022 12:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Research Shows ‘Raised without Antibiotics’ Label Claim in Beef Cattle Lacks Integrity

A new study published today in Science found that a substantial portion of cattle destined for the ‘Raised without Antibiotics’ market have been given antibiotics.
4-Apr-2022 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New Podcast Series to Confront COVID-19 Disinformation

The four-part series, hosted by award-winning journalist and GW Professor Frank Sesno, will examine how falsehoods about COVID-19 are spread and what can be done to combat misinformation
31-Mar-2022 9:50 AM EDT Add to Favorites