The new program, funded by a nearly $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will take bioengineering students on a six-week clinical immersion into major hospitals in the D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia area, starting in summer 2021.
Emily Eckert is a vocal advocate for improving access to quality health care for pregnant and postpartum women and has published several articles on the topic.
All College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) students graduating this winter or who graduated spring or summer are invited to apply to share recorded remarks in Mason’s Winter 2020 Celebration of Graduates.
After Kristine Tran, MS Global Health ’20, graduated this spring, she immediately began working at the Virginia Department of Health on COVID-19 contact tracing.
- September 23, 2020
Fakhira Halloun holds two contradictory identities: She is Palestinian and an Israeli citizen.
It wasn’t until she began facilitating peace dialogues between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem in 2000, that she realized Palestinian citizens of Israel could be the missing link in bridging ties between the two groups.