Accomplishments: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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…
Sidath Kapukutuwa, Laurencia Bonsu, Anita Chatterjee (Social and Behavioral Health), Miguel Fudulig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Examining the Gambling Behavior of University Students: A Cross-Sectional Survey Applying the Multi-Theory Model (MTM…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article, "Association of Sources of COVID-19 Information With Vaccine Uptake, Preventive Behaviors, and Perceived Severity of COVID-19," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA).
Brooke Conway Kleven (Public Health), Lung-Chang Chien, Brian Labus, Chad Cross, (all Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Arturo Montes (Internal Medicine) along with Aaron Ritter, Rebekah Randall, and Charles Bernick of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health had their research article, "Longitudinal Changes in Regional Brain Volumes…
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…
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, "…
Brian Labus and Casey Barber (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a talk titled, "Everybody poops: the basics of wastewater surveillance and how it can provide an unbiased insight into infectious disease transmission in the community," during the 2023 Nevada Environmental Health Association & Nevada Food Safety Task Force Joint…
Arpita Basu, Ph.D., MPH, RD/LD (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Lung-Chang Chien, Ph.D., (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Leigh Ann Richardson (Public Health), along with colleagues recently published, "Longitudinal associations of healthy dietary pattern scores with coronary artery calcification and pericardial adiposity in US adults…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a study titled, "Incomplete and Confounded Block Designs in Visual Inference Experiments," during the 2023 International Conference on Design of Experiments on May 8-11 in Memphis, Tennessee.
The study explores the use of confounded and balanced incomplete block designs in making visual…
Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored an article titled, "Influence of neighborhood social and natural environment on prostate tumor histology in a cohort of male health professionals" in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Adverse neighborhood social and natural (greenspace) environments may contribute to prostate cancer…
Kaelia Saniatan (graduate research assistant), Smriti Neupane (graduate research assistant), Gabriela Buccini (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article titled: "Socio-demographic, maternal, and infant characteristics associated with pacifier use among six-months old infants in Clark…
Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was the lead author of "Association of Integrating Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care at Federally Qualified Health Centers With Utilization and Follow-up Care" published in the JAMA Network Open. The primary objective was to examine the association of a comprehensive mental health integration…