2025-2026 Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds 2025-2026

A 21st Century Research Agenda: Digital Health Interventions & Immersive Technology

Monday, April 6 | 11:30 am | PHC Multipurpose Room
Lunch to Follow

Personalized Behavioral Interventions: Design, Evaluation, and Funding Strategies

Presenters: Alicia Hong (HAP) and her team

This talk highlights lessons learned from several digital health intervention projects, focusing on how data-driven technologies enable personalized behavioral interventions and offering practical insights for intervention design, evaluation, user engagement, and building sustainable research programs.

Emotional Learning Through Immersive Technology: Rethinking Dementia Care Training and Education with Virtual Reality

Presenters: Li-Mei Chen (Social Work) and Zeynep Senturk Mannix, MSW student

This presentation introduces a virtual reality (VR) training program that helps caregivers experience the emotional and sensory realities of dementia, demonstrating how immersive technology can enhance empathy and improve dementia care practices.

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The Polarization of Vaccines: Policy, Practice, and Future Directions

Speakers:
Rupali Limaye, Associate Professor, Global and Community Health
Rebecca Sutter, Professor, School of Nursing and Director, MAP Clinics
Ariana Lynd Castro, DNP Student

Science denial is rising. Misinformation and the politicization of health broadly, and the recent focus on vaccines specifically, create challenges spanning public health, nursing, and social work. Featuring George Mason faculty and students, this event will focus on how we as an interdisciplinary community can take action to ensure that evidence-based research, practice, and policy are conducted, implemented, and developed.