Accomplishments: School of Public Health
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…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Kara Radzak (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Annie Lindsay (University of Nevada, Reno-Extension), and Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) received a grant of $144,512 from the University of Nevada Reno Extension Program - Advancing our powerful partnerships to address…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Kara Radzak (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) received a grant of $144,512 from the University of Nevada Reno Extension Program - Advancing our powerful partnerships to address critical issues facing Clark County.
The grant will help…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) made a virtual presentation titled, “Implications of effective behavior change interventions in post-COVID-19 era for mental health problems among the rural elderly populations,” at the 5th International Symposium on Global Pandemics and…
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Chris Cochran (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article titled, "Heterogeneity of Asthma Care Among Hispanic Subgroups Lower Utilization of Hospital-based Care among Spanish-speaking Hispanics," in Medical Care. They found that…
Asma Awan, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra, (all Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, "Navigating the past for a South Asian paradigm of mental health: A chronological literature review," at the Ankara International Congress on Scientific Research-VIII held in…
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published a paper, "Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea,” in Economic and Human Biology. This study found a strong association between upward mobility and happiness among the aged 40–49, who had the largest proportion of upwardly mobile individuals and spent…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a paper titled, "Beyond Being Insured: Insurance Coverage Denial as a Major Barrier to Accessing Care During Pregnancy and Postpartum" in the journal Clinical Nursing Research.
This study investigates the association between insurance coverage denial and delays in care during pregnancy and…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented his work titled, "Can you see the change? Change Point Detection using Statistical Lineups" during the 2023 Symposium of Data Science and Statistics on May 23-26 in St. Louis, Missouri. The study involves demonstrating how human participants can visually perceive translational mean change…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with Ravi Batra, and Manoj Sharma (both Public Health) published a book chapter titled "Social Media and Infodemiology: Use of Social Media Monitoring in Emergency Preparedness" in the book Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health. This chapter aims to elucidate the “misinformation” aspect of the…
Barbara Lewis (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) published the article "Analysis of CEPH-accredited online public health doctoral programs and MPH degree holder demand" in the journal Frontiers in Public Health. Lewis is a doctoral student.
The number of doctoral programs to train…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) have co-edited a book titled, “Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health,” published by Elsevier (ISBN: 9780323956307). The book presents a current and extensive review of social media and its role in public health and health care. The book is…