Dr. Priyanka Anand is an associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University. Her research interests include health economics, disability policy, labor economics, and social insurance programs.

Dr. Li-Mei Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work since Fall 2023. Chen’s teaching and research focuses on dementia and aging, productive aging, intersectionality and role of lifecourse in older ethnic minorities, community gerontology, and social policy. She teaches BSW SOCW 312 Knowledge Building for Helping Professionals.

Dr. Gimm, associate professor of health administration and policy, has research experience in disability and aging, program evaluations, and health care financing.

Dr. Michelle D. Hand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work. Her research focuses on holistic nonpharmacologic strategies for preventing and addressing sexual violence and trauma among at-risk non-dominant populations across the life course, particularly in later life.

Dr. Alicia Hong’s current research interests focus on how to effectively apply health information technology in disease prevention and health promotion, particularly on chronic disease management and caregiving. She employs community-engaged user-centered design to develop culturally tailored programs, integrating low-cost digital tools with clinical care to deliver personalized programs that are easy to adopt and sustain in underserved communities, ultimately reducing health disparities.

Dr. Emily S. Ihara is a professor and chair of the Department of Social Work. Ihara’s research interests focus on interventions, policies, and system changes necessary to eliminate health inequities for vulnerable populations across the life course.

Dr. Inoue is a Professor in the Department of Social Work. Her research focus is primarily on older adults with declined health who are vulnerable to losing autonomy and dignity.

Dr. Jeah Jung is a Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Jung’s research analyzes health policy issues using approaches to infer causal relations from observational data. 

Dr. Marti Kubik has an 18-year history of extramural-funded research with a focus on youth and families and low-income and minority populations. Nationally recognized in the field of childhood obesity prevention, Dr. Kubik’s work has advanced understanding of the school food environment, contributing to school nutrition policy at state, national and international levels. Other research examined the role of school nursing in obesity prevention. New work piloted a trauma-informed, resilience-based multi-level intervention to reduce violence among urban youth. She has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is a past standing member of the NIH Community-Level Health Promotion Study Section.

Dr. Suyoung Kwon’s research focuses on occupational health nursing, with a particular emphasis on preventing work-related disability and addressing employment challenges faced by people with disabilities. She has conducted studies on musculoskeletal disorders among workers in both the manufacturing and healthcare sectors, examining ergonomic exposures and the psychosocial work environment. Additionally, she has explored employment challenges through the lens of social determinants of health. Drawing on her experience as an occupational health nurse, ergonomist, industrial hygienist, and congressional policy fellow, she explores how the interplay between the work environment, labor market, and health policies shapes workers' health.