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College of Public Health Faculty
Associate Professor, Nutrition
Dr. LaCharite is an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies. She writes and teaches about sustainable food systems, food and culture, urban agriculture, and the effects of agriculture-based learning on eating behaviors.
Chair, Department of Health Administration and Policy, HAP
Professor, HAPDr. Maddox is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University. She is a nurse with a distinguished career in health services administration, health policy analysis and health services research.
Term Assistant Professor, HAP
Dr. Madison is an Assistant Professor in Health Informatics and the Coordinator of the Health Informatics Capstone Program. Capitalizing on her experience in health policy and health informatics, as well as her clinical background, Dr. Madison is able to build bridges across disciplines and support collaborations among diverse groups of researchers.
Professor, Social Work
Holly Matto, PhD, LCSW-C is a Professor in the Department of Social Work in the College of Public Health at Mason. Dr. Matto values interdisciplinary collaborations and has established research relationships with colleagues in social work, bioengineering, mathematics, visual and performing arts and others at Mason that have resulted in grant-funded projects.
Associate Professor, Nursing
Dr. Erin Maughan's research focuses on measuring the effectiveness of school nursing and school health programs that support the need of students (K-12) living in vulnerable situations. Her particular research focus looks at the infrastructure needed to support appropriate school nurse staffing and identifying indicators that best measure the effectiveness of school nursing and school health. Dr. Maughan uses her professional work experience and expertise in mix-method and qualitative designs to not only strengthen the evidence related to school health, but also obtain the data needed to change health and education policy.
Professor, Public Health
Dr. James Metcalf is a professor in the Department of Global and Community Health. Teaching represents 100% of his current assignment, but he maintains research interest in personal health, current environmental conditions (hydrilla overgrowth in the upper tidal Potomac River); and most recently, the analysis of health-related themes in classical literature
Associate Professor, HAP
Dr. Hua Min is an associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Min’s research interests are ontology-based data integration, ontology-based machine learning methods, data extraction and analysis from various EHR systems.
Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Studies
Dr. Allison Miner is a licensed dietitian and educator. Dr. Miner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She also provides medical nutrition therapy at the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA, Health Unit). At the TSA she moderates a virtual weekly weight loss support group which is available to its 68,000+ employees.
Assistant Professor,
Director of Online MPH Program, Public Health.Dr. MB (Marybeth) Mitcham is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Online MPH Program in the Department of Global and Community Health. Mitcham’s research interests include the effect of intergenerational learning opportunities on healthy behavior patterns, rural gender identity, the intersection of plant-rich diets and rural populations, and effective public health education methods.Assistant Professor, GCH
Dr. Jessica Mitro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health (GCH). She is passionate about access to and mobilization of knowledge and excited to support our future community, public health, and healthcare professionals.