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.
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.
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.
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.