Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) is a recipient of the Service Member Patriot Award, a recognition earned through the nomination of her doctoral student, Keishmer Cardoso, a captain in the National Guard.
This distinguished award acknowledges the support provided by individual supervisors and bosses to an employee serving in the…
Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental) presented a poster with Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) during the American Public Health Association meeting titled "Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and Threats Analysis of ChatGPT in Oral Health Education." The authors concluded ChatGPT has the promise to augment the oral healthcare…
Jalal Uddin (Master of Public Health student and lead author), Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health), and colleagues published, "Examining the Role Between Social Antecedents and Depression among LGBTQ+ Older Adults Eligible for Low-Income Housing," in OBM Geriatrics. This study found that social antecedents (i.e., demographics, early…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "The impact of pyrethroid-pyriproxyfen and pyrethroid-chlorfenapyr long-lasting insecticidal nets on density of primary malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles coluzzii in Benin: a secondary analysis of a cluster randomised controlled trial" in the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Understanding the knowledge, attitudes, practices (KAP) of healthy eating among adolescents in Chongqing, China: An empirical study utilizing structural equation modeling (SEM),” in the journal Nutrients (Impact factor 5.9) with coauthors from…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Association between body weight misperception and snacking patterns among adolescents: a population-based cross-sectional study,” in collaboration with colleagues from Chongqing Medical University in the journal, BMC Public Health (Impact factor 4.5). The…
Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her poster, "Person-Centered Care: What Are the Key Success Factors for Patient & Family Advisory Councils?," at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum in Orlando, Florida, in December.
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…
Jeffrey Martin, Henry Krasner, Crysty-Ann Olaco, Kavita Batra and Dale Netski (all Medicine) along with Nicolette Harmon (Public Health) co-published an abstract of their upcoming study, "Community Level Correlates of COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Analysis," in Proceedings of the 1st International…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published a paper titled, “Asynchronous Online Teaching of Research Methods to Graduate Students: Application of the Multi-Theory Model of Health Behavior Change,” in ICERI 2023 Proceedings. The article is a case study of a successful pedagogical application of his fourth-generation…
Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Contextualizing Depression in Pacific Islander Sexual and Gender Minority Youth—Location, History, and Culture" in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
A recent study identified high rates of depressive symptoms among groups of Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific…
Emylia Terry, Ravi Batra, Jennifer Pharr (all public health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) made an oral presentation of their study, "Physical inactivity and psychological morbidities among LGBTQ+: A comparative analysis," at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference held in Atlanta. This study highlighted the need of developing…