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Department of Health Administration and Policy
4400 University Drive, MS 1J3
Peterson Hall, Ste. 4400
Fairfax, VA 22030
(703) 993-1929
hap@gmu.edu
Our health policy and economics faculty collaborate with health insurers, hospitals, physicians groups, state and federal government agencies, and public health entities to conduct program and policy evaluations, cost-effectiveness studies, and outcomes research studies. Our team is nationally recognized with an active extramural funding portfolio.
Meet Our Faculty
- Priyanka Anand
- Alison Evans Cuellar
- John Cantiello
- Gilbert Gimm
- Debora Goldberg
- Jeah Jung
- Panagiota Kitsantas
- Hansoo Ko
Supporting Institutions
- Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
- American Institutes for Research
- CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Fairfax County Department of Health
- Jeffress Trust
- MacArthur Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Institutes of Science and Technology (NIST)
- PNC Foundation
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
- Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS)
- Westat Inc.
Current Research News Feed
June 7, 2021Health Policymaking Priorities Now: the first webinar in the Health Policy Summer Series featured panelists from Capitol Hill, the Virginia Medicaid program, and the Urban Institute
June 2, 2021The longitudinal study is an important effort seeking to improve the health of young adults.- May 4, 2021Telehealth as a channel for delivering care has boomed in the past few years in response to the growing need for more flexible opioid treatment options and limitations to in-person care during the COVID-19 pandemic. But for states, payers, and providers to deliver on the long-term promise of telehealth, areas such as funding, infrastructure, policy, access points, and coverage must also evolve.
- Policy changes strengthen state’s capacity to fight substance use and improve outcomes including increases in number of behavioral health and substance use providers and patients treated.
- Transforming Behavioral Health Care in Virginia
- A post-COVID reimagining of telehealth in Medicare
- CHHS faculty Lawrence J. Cheskin, Alison Cuellar, and Matthew Rossheim have received a Mason Summer Impact Grant to study COVID-19's impact on underrepresented/under-resourced George Mason University undergraduate students and their peers.
- Young people with cognitive disabilities more than twice as likely to use e-cigarettes
- Dr. Alison Cuellar has been awarded a grant from the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic changed health care for patients with chronic conditions.
- In the first national study to assess use of e-cigarettes among adults with disabilities, George Mason University’s College of Health and Human Services researchers found that e-cigarette use was more than twice as likely among adults with a cognitive disability (12.0%), an independent living disability (11.0%), or two or more disabilities (9.2%), compared to adults without disabilities (4.8%)
- New George Mason University Study finds that health care professionals with a greater personal ability to respond to change experienced lower rates of burnout when their work environments offered strong communication, teamwork, and leadership support. This is one of the first studies to explore the effect of individual and organizational capacity for change on burnout among health care professionals.