Child and Adolescent Health

School lunch tests reveal dozens of pesticides on single items, heavy metals, other toxins.

Senior US Senator calls for toxins to be removed from school lunches.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released its new report, "Launching Lifelong Health by Improving Health Care for Children, Youth, and Families," on September 19.

The One Back-to-School Item Teens Shouldn't Have to Buy

‘I was handed to a complete stranger’: the survivors fighting to end child marriage in 37 US states – and the people who want to keep it legal. The country has seen hundreds of thousands of child marriages since 2000. As activists push for new laws, an unlikely cohort stands in their way.

Just three and a half years after George Mason's College of Public Health created its PhD in Public Health in 2021, Kim McNally will be the first graduate to walk across the Commencement stage at EagleBank Arena this May.

Study recommends supporting school nurses’ vaccination efforts to increase vaccination rates and reduce HPV-related cancers.

Youth smoking remains a significant public health problem in the U.S. and in Virginia. Hong Xue, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy, is conducting a study of youth smoking and prevention on the effects of policy and prevention strategies on the use of conventional and e-cigarettes in Virginia adolescents.