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Residents and workers at unionized nursing homes experienced lower mortality and infection rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the journal Health Affairs.

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As the world enters the third year of the pandemic, concerns about the behavioral health workforce crisis are making national headlines in the United States. In response, President Biden has made strengthening the behavioral health workforce a priority. Quantifying the behavioral health workforce has remained elusive due to scarce data and little consensus as to the provider types to include in workforce definitions. While experts have called for the creation of a minimum data set to facilitate planning efforts, no comprehensive database of the behavioral health workforce has been developed–until now.

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The Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University announced it has received a record setting donation from a faculty member, which will establish the Gill-Lebovic Center for Community Health in the Caribbean and Latin America. The gift, from Holly Gill and her husband, GW political science professor James Lebovic, will work to improve health outcomes, focusing on the region’s most vulnerable and marginalized groups, including women and families, mobile and migrant populations, and impoverished communities.

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A new study published today in Science found that a substantial portion of cattle destined for the ‘Raised without Antibiotics’ market have been given antibiotics.

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The four-part series, hosted by award-winning journalist and GW Professor Frank Sesno, will examine how falsehoods about COVID-19 are spread and what can be done to combat misinformation

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Researchers at the George Washington University published findings from the world’s largest cohort study showing that hospitalized patients with moderate COVID-19 who were given aspirin early on in their treatment had a lower risk of dying compared to patients who were not given aspirin.

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GW Law, in partnership with the Animal Legal Defense Fund, will develop innovative animal legal education initiatives through scholarship, curriculum development, improved access, and policy.

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A major new report from researchers at the George Washington University details findings from the second phase of a landmark study about Medicaid managed care and family planning services. Coming 40 years after Congress enacted special protections to preserve access to family planning services for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicaid managed care, the study found a virtually universal consensus on the value of family planning/managed care integration.

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Efforts to determine the actual size and makeup of the abortion provider workforce in the U.S. often rely on surveys that are limited in scope or else focus solely on abortion facilities. To get more comprehensive pictures of the abortion provider workforce, researchers at the George Washington University combed through a national medical claims data set to examine the workforce providing abortion care and management of pregnancy loss.

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Researchers in the Primate Genomics Lab at the George Washington University examined what factors drive hair variation in a wild population of lemurs known as Indriidae. Specifically, the researchers aimed to assess the impacts of climate, body size and color vision on hair evolution.

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Following years of growing vaccine opposition and several outbreaks of measles--a vaccine-preventable disease--Facebook established in 2019 its first policy to stop the spread of misinformation about vaccines. Researchers at the George Washington University wondered if the new policies actually worked to stop the spread of misinformation. Jiayan Gu, PhD student along with Lorien Abroms, Professor of Prevention and Community Health and their colleagues created a new paradigm for evaluation of the policy. The team found that Facebook’s policy did reduce people’s interactions with vaccine misinformation.

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The urgent drive to build financial resilience and identify practical, accessible solutions to overcome financial illiteracy is taking a giant leap ahead thanks to new, multiyear support through Next Gen Personal Finance for the groundbreaking G53 Financial Literacy and Personal Finance Research Network.

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One out of three people in a large survey showed signs of exposure to a pesticide called 2,4-D, according to a study published today by researchers at the George Washington University. This novel research found that human exposure to this chemical has been rising as agricultural use of the chemical has increased, a finding that raises worries about possible health implications.

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Factual corrections published on Facebook’s news feed can reduce a user’s belief in misinformation, even across partisan lines, according to a new paper published this month in the Journal of Politics.

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