Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a virtual presentation on "Advancing Health Equity: Effective Strategies and Lessons Learned From HIV and COVID-19 Pandemics - From Local to Global" during the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's (CDC) seminar.
The presentation aimed to describe the epidemiology and identify the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Aditi Singh (Internal Medicine) along with a faculty member from University of Southern Mississippi published…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), Lung-Chang (Jojo) Chien and Chad Cross (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented an overview of their research on "Geospatial Disparity of COVID-19 in Southern Nevada" at the Southern Nevada Health District during the CDC OT21-2103 health disparities grant site…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and colleagues published an article on "Contributions of non-tailpipe emissions to near-road PM2.5 and PM10: A chemical mass balance study" in the journal Environmental Pollution. This project was sponsored in part by the California Air Resources Board.
This study…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper titled, "Field performance of three mosquito collection methods for assessing the entomological efficacy of dual-active ingredient long-lasting insecticidal nets" in the journal Scientific Reports.
Selection of mosquito collection methods is of crucial importance to…
Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) has been elected by the Nevada Board of Health as the Chair of the Southern Nevada Health District Public Health Advisory Board.
Members of the Advisory Board serve as non-voting members of the Board of Health. The Board of Health has also delegated authority to the Advisory Board to make…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a presentation titled, "Bacterial Symbionts are Associated with Insecticide Resistance in the Major Malaria Vector Anopheles coluzzii," during the American Society for Microbiology Microbe conference held June 15-19 in Houston, Texas.
Abstract:
The mosquito microbiota consists of the…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper titled, "Ovary Dissection Is a Sensitive Measure of Sterility in Anopheles gambiae Exposed to the Insect Growth Regulator Pyriproxyfen," in the journal Insects.
Malaria is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes. An important control tool against malaria is insecticidal bed…
Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Malcolm Ahlo (Southern Nevada Health District), Kacie Washburn (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article titled, "…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Differential impact of dual-active ingredient long-lasting insecticidal nets on primary malaria vectors: a secondary analysis of a 3-year, single-blind, cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Tanzania" in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.
Gains…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and colleagues published an article on "Metal contents and size distributions of brake and tire wear particles dispersed in the near-road environment" in the journal Science of The Total Environment.
This study monitored air quality at near-road environments, focusing on…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), Prosun Roy, Yi-Tung Chen (both Mechanical Engineering), and their colleagues published an article on "High time-resolution fenceline air quality sensing and dispersion modeling for environmental justice-centered source attribution " in the journal …