CHHS Faculty

  • Yoshie Davison is Associate Director of Practicum Education and Community Partnerships in the Department of Social Work.

  • Dr. Madina Khamzina advances health equity, digital inclusion, and aging through research, education, and global community engagement.

  • Artin is a researcher specializing in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on medical image analysis.

  • Dr. Teenu Xavier’s research focuses on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance healthcare communication and improve patient outcomes, with a special focus on identifying and reducing biased language in electronic health records. She examines EHR text-based data to uncover meaningful patterns, language features, and contextual cues that can shape the care patients receive. Her work also explores the use of natural language processing in a variety of sources, including clinical notes, social media, and blogs, to study sentiments, emotions, and health-related conversations, with a commitment to addressing health disparities. Drawing on her expertise in nursing informatics, big data analytics, health promotion and health equity, she investigates how Artificial intelligence can be integrated into healthcare systems to support empathetic, patient-centered documentation and address social determinants of health

  • Dr. Yikuan Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. His research integrates multimodal machine learning, reinforcement learning, and large language models to advance clinical prediction, decision support, and health data interoperability.

  • Dr. Geschke is an instructional faculty member in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University. With over 15 years of experience in higher education, she is dedicated to fostering student success through engaging, student-centered teaching.

  • Hedyeh Mobahi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University.

  • Martin Cohen is an Associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University

  • Rupali J. Limaye, PhD, MPH, MA, is an Associate Professor. She is seen as an expert in vaccine behavior and decision-making, including vaccine hesitancy and acceptance. Primarily focusing on infectious diseases, Dr. Limaye is a social and behavioral scientist and health communication scholar. Her mixed-method work examines how various influences affect health behavior and how to leverage those influences to affect positive behavior change.

  • Dr. Keiana Mayfield’s research interests lie at the intersection of child development and sociocultural contextual factors. Her work focuses on how families and schools influence child and adolescent development while embedded within a society with deep roots in racially oppressive ideologies.