Dr. Fauci will serve as a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and hold an additional appointment in the McCourt School of Public Policy.
Georgetown scientists are predicting that the warming climate will force wildlife from their habitats into more highly populated areas —dramatically increasing the risk of viral transmissions.
Sociologist Yuki Kato started researching environmental and food justice issues in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Since then, she has led cutting-edge research on urban agriculture with undergraduate students.
Georgetown has been designated as an institution with “very high research activity,” a distinction the university has maintained for nearly three decades.
A team of Georgetown scientists are using artificial intelligence to predict which viruses could infect humans, which animals host them and where the next SARS-like virus could emerge.