The Institute for Biohealth Innovation

News Archive

May 20, 2020

Primary care physicians experience more burnout and anxiety than other health professions

Clinician burnout is a growing public health concern, with the National Academy of Science reporting that 35-54% of U.S. nurses...
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May 19, 2020

Mason and Partner Clinics extend free COVID-19 testing for uninsured and low-income populations

Mason and Partner Clinics recently received much needed supplies from the Virginia Department of Health to provide free COVID-19 testing....
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May 18, 2020

Kris Gebhard: Combining their passions to create a career

Putting a hold on community organizing and activism work to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology was not an easy...
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May 18, 2020

Using machine learning to help flatten the curve in COVID-19 pandemic

For public health experts fighting COVID-19, there are still many unknowns including how the disease spreads through populations, what impact...
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May 17, 2020

Electrical engineering graduate student’s project predicts daily COVID-19 infections

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, experts have been analyzing data sets to try to predict the number of people who...
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May 13, 2020

Graduation Profile: Could 3D printing change a life? This Mason senior is confident it can

When Denys Kuratchenko began working at Northern Virginia Community College’s 3D printing lab in 2017, he didn’t anticipate that his...
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May 12, 2020

COVID-19 impact on violence against women: WHO/George Mason urge governments and healthcare providers to apply lessons from past humanitarian crises, make more resources available

While data are still scant, experts who have studied the impact of humanitarian crises such as conflicts and natural disasters...
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May 12, 2020

The College of Health and Human Services is awarded seed funding grants for two urgent COVID-19 studies

The College of Health and Human Services faculty have received two seed funding grants from George Mason University to pursue...
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May 12, 2020

Meet alumna, Nicole M. Sekel (MS Nutrition ’19), who’s interested in bone health and the optimization of athletic performance through nutritional intervention

Nicole M. Sekel speaks on her experience in Mason’s MS in Nutrition program, research, and her current post-grad position.
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May 6, 2020

George Mason University social work students join a telehealth pilot program serving vulnerable populations during pandemic

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on millions of lives and has disproportionately affected those in vulnerable populations. According to...
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May 6, 2020

George Mason University health college continues NSF funded study of coronaviruses

The College of Health and Human Services received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the emergence...
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May 4, 2020

Mason tests the impact of COVID-19 on children and families in first national longitudinal childhood study during a pandemic, Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)

“I’ve never been so stressed in my life,” says one research participant—a teacher and mother of three—as she tries to...
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May 4, 2020

Mason team’s models serve as backbone for web portal that support models for hospital response to COVID-19

George Mason University professor Elise Miller-Hooks and her team have been studying and modeling the flow of patients through American...
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April 30, 2020

Researchers at George Mason developing quicker coronavirus antibody test

Scientists at George Mason University are working to develop an easy-to-administer COVID-19 antibody test, which could mean using a simple...
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April 30, 2020

On the front lines: Continuing public mental health care amid COVID-19

What does it mean to be a public servant during a global pandemic? It isn’t easy, but it’s important.
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