April 21, 2022Researchers from the Schar School of Policy and Government’s Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence! and the College of Health and Human Services are translating research into actionable guidelines to help probation officers support their clients to achieve better outcomes.
April 12, 2022Mason faculty member to provide perspectives on social justice and social work as representative for the International Federation of Social Work to the UN for North America.
February 19, 2022Daphne King, EdD, associate professor in the Department of Social Work, shares teen dating violence warning signs and tips for parents during Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (February).
February 18, 2022High profile sporting events like the Winter Olympics and March Madness are times to celebrate the amazing accomplishment of athletes—and to ensure that all athletes receive the mental health support they need. Emmett Gill, term assistant professor of Social Work, wants to shed more light on the mental health of athletes.
Dr. Michelle D. Hand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work. Her research focuses on empowerment building approaches to address sexual violence and trauma among at-risk non-dominant populations, including in later life. Thus, she studies causes and impacts of violence and trauma as well as arts- and horticulture-based interventions (e.g., community gardens, farms and murals) to support healing, informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and clinical experience.
Bethany Cieslowski is Simulation Coordinator at GMU Nursing. She holds degrees from UVA, Columbia, and a DNP from Duke.
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.
Dr. Karen Trister Grace is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at George Mason University. Her program of research examines how gendered power and coercive dynamics shape reproductive autonomy, health outcomes, and health care responses, with a primary focus on intimate partner violence (IPV) and reproductive coercion (RC).
Congratulations to the 2021 College of Health and Human Services Faculty and Staff award winners.
Drs. Germaine Buck Louis, Lynn Gerber, Andrew Guccione, Jack Hadley, Rosemary Higgins, and Kathryn Jacobsen were recognized in a recently released list of the top 2% of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines.
