Morehouse School of Medicine News Center
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MSM Microbiologist Awarded NIH Grant to Develop New Intervention Against Cerebral Malaria
FEBRUARY 7, 2022 - $2.7 million grant to fund international team to research potential treatment for severe malaria which kills approximately 500,000 children annually.
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Research Finds COVID Pandemic Worsened Health Equity Gap
FEBRUARY 1, 2022 - National survey conducted by the Morehouse School of Medicine and Teva Pharmaceuticals shows intensified impacts among vulnerable populations driven by lack of access to care.
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MSM Research Leader James Lillard, PhD, MBA Elected to 2021 class of AAAS Fellows
JANUARY 26, 2022 - Noted program highlights innovation in science and research
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An Inter-Faith Alliance to Stop COVID-19
JANUARY 20, 2022 - Georgia CEAL is a member of the National Institutes of Health that supports statewide efforts to conduct urgent community-engaged research and outreach focused on COVID-19 awareness and education to address misinformation and mistrust; and promote and facilitate inclusion of diverse racial and ethnic populations in clinical trials (prevention, vaccine, therapeutics), reflective of the populations disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
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'It's a Systemic Issue': Why Georgia's Maternal Health Crisis Requires Multiple Solutions
JANUARY 12, 2022 - Dr. Natalie Hernandez, assistant professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and the executive director of the Center for Maternal Health Equity at Morehouse School of Medicine, is featured in a Savannah Morning News piece on how to solve Georgia's maternal health crisis.
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How a Med School Partnered to Build Health Equity Education
JANUARY 6, 2022 - The More in Common Alliance will support health equity by enabling medical education and residency opportunities in traditionally underserved areas.
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2021 Forbes Healthcare Summit: Breakthrough Solutions for the Next Decade
DECEMBER 1, 2021 - The 10th Annual Forbes Healthcare Summit will bring together leaders in healthcare, medicine, science, and business to discuss the accelerating pace of innovation and the bright outlook for breakthroughs and new models. The 10th anniversary event will allow participants to assess a decade of successes as a roadmap for the next decade of solutions for expanding access to healthcare and improving patient outcomes.
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CommonSpirit Health And MSM Announce First Phase Of Education Sites Designed To Diversify The Clinician Workforce
NOVEMBER 30, 2021 - "More in Common Alliance" to address critical gaps in care by educating and training more BIPOC clinicians at sites across the U.S.
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Mitigating Inequities Caused or Exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic
NOVEMBER 30, 2021 - As we have seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, health and social disparities exist that result in disproportionately higher rates of exposure, illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 for marginalized communities. In January, the White House established a Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, which last week released a comprehensive report with recommendations for mitigating inequities caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and for preventing such inequities in the future.
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Bridges to Biotechnology and Bioentrepreneurship: Improving Diversity in the Biotechnology Sector
NOVEMBER 16, 2021 - Nature Biotechnology is a monthly journal covering the science and business of biotechnology. It publishes new concepts in technology/methodology of relevance to the biological, biomedical, agricultural, and environmental sciences as well as covers the commercial, political, ethical, legal, and societal aspects of this research.
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