Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
The UNLV School of Public Health and University of Nevada, Reno's School of Public Health have partnered in committing $10,000 to support joint grant submissions, publications, community-engaged projects, contracts, professional presentations and training sessions. Dean Shawn Gerstenberger (Public Health) and UNR SPH Dean Muge Akpinar-Elci have…
Sidath Kapukotuwa (Social and Behavioral Health), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine; Office of Research), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) presented their poster, "Yoga for osteoarthritis: Current state of interventions," during the American Public…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a poster titled, "Assessing COVID-19 vaccination accessibility in Clark County, Nevada," on Nov. 12 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a roundtable presentation titled, "An emerging hotspot analysis of COVID-19 in Clark County, Nevada, 2020-2023," on Nov. 14 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America (UPAAA) during the 2023 UPAAA Grand Reunion and Convention.
The UPAAA Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Awards are given to senior alumni who have achieved professional distinction and…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Detection of insecticide resistance markers in Anopheles funestus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo using a targeted amplicon sequencing panel" in the journal Scientific Reports.
Vector control strategies have been successful in reducing the number…
Prosun Roy (Mechanical Engineering), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), Yi-Tung Chen (Mechanical Engineering), Sajjad Ahmad, Eakalak Khan (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), and Mark Buttner (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on "Pollen Dispersion and …
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Effectiveness of piperonyl butoxide and pyrethroid-treated long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) versus pyrethroid-only LLINs with and without indoor residual spray against malaria infection: third year results of a cluster, randomised controlled, two-by-two…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Effectiveness of long-lasting insecticidal nets with pyriproxyfen-pyrethroid, chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid, or piperonyl butoxide-pyrethroid versus pyrethroid only against malaria in Tanzania: final-year results of a four-arm, single-blind, cluster-randomised…
Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) had their research featured in Las Vegas Weekly.
The feature discusses Cross' and Messenger's work, focusing on diseases that can be transmitted by insects. In their Parasitology and Vector Biology lab, they engage in citizen science…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health), Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published a paper on "Effects of next-generation, dual-active-ingredient, long-lasting insecticidal net deployment on insecticide resistance in malaria vectors in Tanzania: an analysis of a 3-year, cluster-randomised controlled…
Bertille Mavegam Assoumou (Medicine), Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Courtney Coughenour (Public Health) published an article, "Food insecurity and risky sexual behaviors among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic," in BMC Public Health.