Public Health

With a new $3.69 million grant, the Research and Engagement for Action in Climate and Health (REACH) Center—which includes George Mason—is set to tackle the urgent intersection of climate change and public health in the nation’s capital.

Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing fellowship advances relationship-building and change through storytelling to improve public health. 

Research from George Mason University and funded by NIEHS studied the association between trace amounts of elements in ovarian follicular fluid and ovarian response during in-vitro fertilization (IVF) 

Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health Rodman Turpin examines how better understanding the experiences of Black sexual minority men can improve their interactions with the health care system 

Professor Carolyn Drews-Botsch and her team examined whether extended periods of patching for children with unilateral congenital cataracts (UCC) negatively impacted parenting stress, child’s motor development, child behavior, or child’s self-perception.

For this Endometriosis Awareness Month (March), Associate Professor Jhumka Gupta shares how endometriosis pain affects all areas of life and innovative solutions for combating stigma surrounding endometriosis-related chronic pain. 

Amira Roess, professor of global health and epidemiology at Mason, discusses deer with chronic wasting disease, nicknamed "zombie deer," and what the risk to humans is. 

UK and Bangladesh researchers visit Mason to share knowledge about and explore the complex transmission of animal-borne infectious diseases. 

Rather than the traditional way we think of health care as treating people once they are already sick, public health is about prevention and empowering the public by giving them the tools to maintain their own health and safety. Let’s dive into why the public health field is an excellent launching pad into medical school.

New research by PhD student Cheyu “Sarah” Zhang studied women’s disability and couples’ attitudes toward intimate partner violence using nationally representative surveys from nine countries.