Research News

Updated food reactivity tool explains why we eat what we see.

Martin Binks, metabolic disease expert, created a novel food cue image bank that will produce more accurate and consistent food-related brain response research

In the College of Public Health, researchers are embracing AI’s potential while also interrogating it, testing it, and redesigning it to work better for real people. Faculty are building AI tools to detect cancer earlier, support dementia patients, guide students through biostatistics, document evidence of violence, and flag burnout in caregivers—targeting some of public health’s toughest challenges.

Harnessing VR to prevent substance use relapse

Holly Matto, addiction science researcher, and College of Science and School of Engineering colleagues provide breakthrough findings about personalized recovery cues and technology-based substance use interventions.

Findings by Ali Weinstein, a scholar of chronic illness, indicate that quality of life may be impacted long after cancer treatment concludes.

In the United States, Foreign-Born Black Residents Have Higher Quality Diets Than African Americans.

PhD student and public health faculty are first to study PFAS in endometrial tissue.

First-of-its-kind research by Denise Hines and colleagues explores cross-national perspectives of male partner violence victimization and perpetration.

Food noise: definition, measurement, and future research directions.

Maternity care policy falls short of securing ob-gyns in risk areas: study

Jenna Krall, associate professor, and an interprofessional George Mason team, received funding for the project: “Housing insecurity, heat, and health: A coalition for resiliency.”