Community Activities

Strong communities are the foundation of public health and at SPHHS we are involved with the many outreach, service, training and research efforts necessary to build them. The interventions we craft often emphasize leadership, cultural competency, effective management and consumer education, while recognizing the value of tapping into local resources and engaging those who will be most affected by any action.

We are especially interested in fostering healthy behaviors, strengthening access to care and empowering underserved populations. All of these efforts, and so many others, have at least one common goal - to advance the health of communities at home and abroad.


  • Advancing collaborations for water risk-related communications
  • Alcohol in Pregnancy Among Minority Women
  • Arts-Based Initiative for the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls
  • Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
  • Children's Vision Initiative
  • Community Healthlink Information Resources Program
  • Community Trial and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  • Concept Mapping
  • District of Columbia Community Health Initiative
  • Drinking water quality in Washington, DC
  • Effectiveness of Spirituality and Medicine Education Program at GWUMC
  • Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems
  • Evaluating a School-Based Curriculum
  • Evaluation and Support Center: Outreach, Care, and Prevention to Engage HIV Seropositive Young MSM of Color
  • Evaluation of the LabTracker (LT) Medical Information Systems Special Project of National Significance (SPNS
  • Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
  • Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy
  • Geriatric Education
  • GW Yes Center
  • Health Information Partners (HIPS)
  • Health Promotion in Afghanistan
  • Human resources protection
  • Improving Quality Medication Management at School
  • Infrastructure Advisory Team, Department of Homeland Security
  • KidsAct! Anti-Tobacco Advocacy Program Evaluation
  • Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment
  • Monitoring and Evaluation of the HIV Testing Campaign
  • National Center for Prevention Services Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV Prevention
  • NIH/DC Initiative to Reduce Infant Mortality
  • Pathways to Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
  • Perceptions of Commercial Health Club Membership
  • Pesticides on Tribal Lands
  • Project Public Health Ready
  • Public health preparedness in Arlington County
  • Save Lives: Free the Condoms Coalition
  • School-Based Violence Prevention
  • Smoking Cessation and Environmental Tobacco Smoke Qualitative Study
  • Strengthening the Public Health Workforce
  • SPNS Information Technology Networks of Care Initiative, Demonstration Project: An LSU HCSD GW collaborative response to HRSA/HAB/SPNS RFA HRSA 07-046
  • Telemedicine Evaluation: A LSU HCSD GW collaboration
  • The Hospital-Based Spirituality Initiative A Collaborative Project of The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish), Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition for Compassionate Care
  • The National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) study
  • Urgent Matters
  • Victims of Exploitation and Trafficking Assistance -DC Partnership Program
  • Workforce protection

 

GW Announces Plans for New SPHHS Building

GW recently announced plans to begin construction of a new building for the School of Public Health and Health Services, to be completed in the summer of 2014. The new building will provide a consolidated home for the school’s 1,500 students and serve as a central location for research and collaboration.