Research News

High-sugar snack could protect against diabetes for adults with high risk, new study finds

Can a mango a day keep diabetes away?

From improving underserved communities’ care to supporting faculty research on women living with HIV, Janell Addo-Boateng, MPH ’25, gained hands-on experience in policy, evaluation, and communication.

Clinical nutrition researcher Raedeh Basiri studied the importance of choosing quality over quantity when it comes to sugar consumption and the potential benefits of daily mango consumption for those with prediabetes.

Why can’t you control yourself when looking at pizza or donut? Experts reveal the mechanism and advise how to deal with it

Scientists, nurses, and researchers in George Mason University’s College of Public Health (CPH) have successfully progressed to the third phase of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program studying a broad range of early life exposures on child health.

MB Mitcham and her research colleagues will identify the necessary infrastructure, procedures, and additional partners needed to establish a strengthen Rural Food as Medicine Pathways in Southwest Virginia.

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.