Global health baddies
This Georgetown faculty member is the Mary L. and Raymond T. Holden Endowed Professor for Maternal and Infant Health and a practicing nurse-midwife (Hint: she spoke at our panel event last year)
Dr. Cristina Marea
_______ is the volunteer coordinator and director of development at Primeros Pasos.
Raquel Castillo
________ is American Heart Month.
February
This bacterial disease caused the Black Death in the 14th century, killing an estimated 50 million people.
Bubonic plague
PAHO stands for ________.
Pan American Health Organization
This GW professor is the founding director of the University's Global Women's Institute (Hint: she spoke at our panel event last year)
Dr. Mary Ellsberg
This is the year that GlobeMed @ Georgetown was founded.
2010
World Health Day is celebrated in this month.
April
Staph infections are most commonly caused by this bacteria, studied by Georgetown Faculty member Shaun Brinsmade
Staphylococcus aureus
Dr. Bernard Kouchner founded this NGO in Paris in 1971
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
This English woman was the founder of modern nursing.
Florence Nightingale
This is the year in which Primeros Pasos was started.
2002
________ is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
These three countries were most affected by the Ebola outbreak of 2013-2016.
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
This NGO works in Latin America improve the quality of life for women and children (Hint: They're the primary funding body for Primeros Pasos)
Global Pediatric Alliance
This American nurse, teacher, and humanitarian founded the American Red Cross in 1881
Clara Barton
This was our very first ghU topic of the fall semester.
Hint: it was mini and during the interest meeting
The Monkeypox Outbreak
_____ is Mental Health Awareness Month.
May
This 19th-century pandemic spread from the Ganges Delta.
Cholera
This US President established PEPFAR, The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
George W. Bush (NOT George H.W. Bush)
This American Virologist helped develop the first Polio vaccine
Dr. Jonas Salk
This was the name of the 2025-2025 GlobeMed at Georgetown campaign for Primeros Pasos
Roots of Health
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month is celebrated in_______.
March
The Tdap vaccine protects against these three bacterial infections
tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis
The US withdrew from this global health organization in 2026.
World Health Organization.