Based on studies of previous recessions and periods of high unemployment, researchers are calling for policy actions to help mitigate the mental health risks associated with rising unemployment resulting from the COVID-19 crisis.
Despite widespread clinical screening, suicide is hard to predict, but a new George Mason University College of Health and Human Services study has found a way.
Pilot initiative builds ability to deliver testing, contact tracing, and stress management protocols among health care providers, with goal of rapidly scaling to other sectors.
After Kristine Tran, MS Global Health ’20, graduated this spring, she immediately began working at the Virginia Department of Health on COVID-19 contact tracing.
Risky Breathing and Policy: Lessons Learned from Smoking and Air Pollution
Policy experts spoke on the various needs of doctors, practices and health care providers at an online panel hosted by the College’s Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics.
Study from George Mason reveals that accurately labeling e-cigarette emissions as ‘chemicals’ or ‘aerosols’ rather than ‘vapor’ increases the perceived risk of exposure. Higher perceived risk is linked to stronger support for smoke-free campus policies.
New George Mason University Study examines how readiness and practice characteristics affect quality improvement (QI) strategy implementation in primary care.
The College of Health and Human Services is pleased to announce that Dr. Carolyn Drews-Botsch has joined the College as a professor and chair of the Department of Global and Community Health, effective August 24.
Various parts of the biopharmaceutical industry have been committed to addressing the COVID-19 global pandemic. This health policy webinar explored possible treatments and vaccines to COVID-19 and the industry’s role in producing them.
