HAP Research

Youth mental health researcher Hua Min created an easier way to find and analyze publicly available data to advance youth mental health research and outcomes.

Health Administration and Policy faculty co-author a new chapter in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability, offering a comprehensive picture of cannabis use among people with disabilities and recommendations for future research.

Digital health researcher Y. Alicia Hong’s WECARE intervention will invigorate resilience in family caregivers of individuals with dementia

Priyanka Anand’s study on Social Security Disability Insurance overpayments provided influential evidence on inefficiencies of social safety net programs and workforce participation.

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.

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

George Mason’s Health Services Research PhD students and faculty share policy research at AcademyHealth 2025

Medicare Advantage less likely to use low-value cancer treatments, study finds

At the 2025 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting,HAP PhD students and faculty delivered a range of presentations, covering health care worker burnout, digital health interventions, and Medicare policy. Their participation underscores HAP's commitment to applied research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and real-world impact.

George Mason professors win national award for their paper on assessing AI’s performance on health policy exams.