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Faculty and staff members have been honored for their commitment, innovation, and service to the College’s mission and values. 

The Leading Niche CEO Tamara Nall and her husband, Clement Ezeanii, have created the Susanna Ezeanii and Mayfred Jolinda Nall Health Informatics Scholarship Endowment to honor the memories of their mothers while making educational aspirations tangible for College of Public Health students.

Caroline Sutter, School of Nursing, and John Cantiello, Health Administration and Policy, have been promoted to professor. Michael Wolf-Branigin, Social Work, was named Faculty Emeritus.

This Stress Awareness Month (April) Professor of Public Health Ali Weinstein provides insight into why stress is sometimes referred to as “the new smoking”, lesser-known causes of stress, and offers healthier coping mechanisms.

No negative impact from prolonged eye patching on child's development or family stress levels

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.

Y. Alicia Hong, professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy, is leading an interdisciplinary team to establish community-academic-government partnerships with the goal of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all.

Why doesn’t Medicare cover drugs like Ozempic for weight loss?

Sinoxolo “Susan” Favor was doing public health work in her native South Africa long before she enrolled in the College of Public Health at George Mason University. Now Favor is graduating from this spring with a BS in community health from the first college of public health in Virginia.

As an intern at Mason, Rudra Nagalia actively contributed to developing the initial prototype for the Remind-H app. This pivotal experience ultimately influenced his decision to return to Mason to pursue his degree and delve deeper into this research focus.

Kelly Beckwith will be honored with the Exceptional Support Award and Shannyn Snyder to receive distinguished Adjunct Faculty Award.

Research led by PhD doctoral candidate Kevin Cevasco suggests patient engagement with chatbots isn’t necessarily better than human interactions in improving health intervention uptake and adherence.