CHHS News

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.

Risky Breathing and Policy: Lessons Learned from Smoking and Air Pollution

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam praised George Mason University for keeping its coronavirus numbers low during a visit to the Fairfax Campus on Tuesday where he announced a refinancing plan for colleges and universities.

Policy experts spoke on the various needs of doctors, practices and health care providers at an online panel hosted by the College’s Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics.

A new study led by Dr. Kathryn H. Jacobsen and published in the Annals of Global Health in August examined all undergraduate minors in global health offered by accredited four-year colleges and universities in the United States during the 2019-20 academic year.

Study from George Mason reveals that accurately labeling e-cigarette emissions as ‘chemicals’ or ‘aerosols’ rather than ‘vapor’ increases the perceived risk of exposure. Higher perceived risk is linked to stronger support for smoke-free campus policies.

New George Mason University Study examines how readiness and practice characteristics affect quality improvement (QI) strategy implementation in primary care.

The College of Health and Human Services is pleased to announce that Dr. Carolyn Drews-Botsch has joined the College as a professor and chair of the Department of Global and Community Health, effective August 24.

Various parts of the biopharmaceutical industry have been committed to addressing the COVID-19 global pandemic. This health policy webinar explored possible treatments and vaccines to COVID-19 and the industry’s role in producing them.

Mason’s College of Health and Human Services offers Virginia’s first doctoral degree in public health.