Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Sidath Kapukotuwa, Liliana Davalos, Laurencia Bonsu (all Social and Behavioral Health) published an article titled, “Theory-based antecedents…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) is the recipient of the SOPHE Leaders in Equity & Diversity (LEAD) Fellowship Award, which will be presented during the 2024 Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Annual Conference in St. Louis, Missouri from Mar. 19-21. This award is being presented for completion of the fellowship, which sought…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and colleagues published an article on "Measurements of brown carbon and its optical properties from boreal forest fires in Alaska summer" in the journal Atmospheric Environment. In this study the team investigated emission and aging of brown carbon (BrC) aerosol from boreal…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "First report of natural infection of Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles coluzzii by Wolbachia and Microsprodia in Berlin: a cross-sectional study" in Malaria Journal. Recently, bacterial endosymbiont, including Wolbachia and Microsporidia were found to…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Katharine Major (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) gave several oral presentations during the American Mosquito Control Association 90th Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas from March 4-8: "Development of environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling for arbovirus vector surveillance in southern Nevada…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “The effects of L-carnitine supplementation on inflammation, oxidative stress, and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with sepsis: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial” in the Nutrition Journal (Impact factor 5.4) in collaboration with coauthors…

Timothy Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published an article on "Social Anxiety, Drinking Game Motives, and Drinking Game Outcomes Among a Large Multisite Sample of University Students" in the journal Cognitive Therapy and Research.  Undergraduates with higher levels of social anxiety may be motivated to participate in high-risk…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), and Sidath Kapukotuwa (Social and Behavioral Health) published an article titled, “Mini Review: Possible role of the multi-theory model of health behavioral change in designing substance use prevention and treatment intervention,” in the…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper on "Efficacy of chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid and piperonyl butoxide-pyrethroid long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) compared to pyrethroid-only LLINs for malaria control in Côte d'lvoire: a three group, cluster randomised trial" in the journal Trials. The massive scale-up…

Soumya Upadhyay (Public Health) published, "Healthcare Associated Infections, Nurse Staffing, and Financial Performance," in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing.  

Asma Tahir and Alireza Rezaee (both Environmental and Occupational Health) presented a poster titled, "Comparison of the Airborne Fungal Spore Concentrations in Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert From 2020-2022," during the 2024 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting from February 23-26 in Washington, D.C.

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy, Center for Health Disparities Research) recently co-authored a paper, "Smoking Cessation and Pancreatic Cancer Risk in Individuals With Prediabetes and Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study," in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.