Data Science | Research Methods | Methodological Research

Data Science | Research Methods | Methodological Research

George Mason University’s College of Public Health conducts research that combines data science and methodological approaches to improve health outcomes.

  • Sanja Avramovic

    Associate Professor, HAP

    Sanja Avramovic is an associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University. Her research focus is on big data sets available through electronic health records; health informatics; and developing an efficient and scalable algorithm for variable selection and predictions.
  • Jenna Krall

    Associate Professor, Global and Community Health

    Director of Masters' Programs

    Dr. Jenna R. Krall is an associate professor in the Department of Global and Community Health. Krall is a biostatistician with research interests in air pollution and environmental epidemiology.
  • Dr. Yikuan Li

    Assistant Professor, HAP

    Dr. Yikuan Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. His research integrates multimodal machine learning, reinforcement learning, and large language models to advance clinical prediction, decision support, and health data interoperability.
  • Associate Professor, HAP

    Dr. Hong Xue is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. His primary research interests are in health economics, nutritional epidemiology, systems science and modeling, (childhood) obesity, mHealth, and big data and machine learning.
  • Assistant Professor, Global and Community Health

    Dr. Zaidi is an assistant professor in the Department of Global and Community Health. Zaidi’s research interests are primarily within causal inference, including but not limited to sufficient cause methods, sensitivity analysis, principal stratification, mediation analysis, and applications of such methods.