Accomplishments: Department of Social and Behavioral Health
Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) received funding from the World Health Organization to develop a case study of the multisectoral actions of the Brazilian National Strategy to Prevent and Care for Childhood Obesity (PROTEJA). This case study will be part of the WHO Collection of Case Studies on Experiences of Multisectoral…
Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the prestigious 2023 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennal Meeting on March 25, 2023. Her presentation was part of the panel titled, "A Deeper Dive: Examining the implementation of early childhood interventions across three countries." Buccini's session…
Asma Awan, Siddharth Raich, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra, Anita Chatterjee, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper titled, "Mixed methods process evaluation for RQFSM Model for assessing disparity-related efforts in Nevada," at the 2023 Society of Public Health Education Annual Conference held in…
Sidath Kapukotuwa, Anita Chatterjee, Laurencia Bonsu, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented two papers titled, "Explaining the correlates of problem gambling behavior based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change among college students: A cross-sectional study," and, "A phenomenological study based on…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) gave a paper presentation on "Exploring the causes and consequences of homelessness among sexual and gender diverse adults in Texas" and a poster presentation on "Latent profiles of sociocultural stressors in a sample of immigrant origin Hispanic and Somali adolescents: Associations with mental health"…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) co-authored an interdisciplinary article titled, “Single parenthood and minor children: Vulnerability factors for fear of crime," in collaboration with colleagues from Jackson State University and Auburn University at Montgomery in the journal The Pursuit. The article found…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) delivered a keynote address to the International Conference on Emerging Need to Strengthen Global Public Health Policies and Sports Sciences (ICGPHPSS) titled, “The role of newer health behavior theories in global public health.” The conference was held as a hybrid at Sikkim Manipal…
Tara Nerida (Social and Behavioral Health), Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Brain Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning) published an article titled, “COVID-19 vaccine acceptance behavior among Hispanics/Latinxs in…
Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with colleagues, “A systematic review of measures of gender and biological sex: Exploring candidates for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) research,” in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. This research highlights current…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a manuscript titled, “The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use Trajectories and the Moderating Role of Social Support,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
The study assesses the longitudinal impact of adverse childhood…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Diabetes Type 2 Risk Score for African Americans based on Jackson Heart Study data: A cross-sectional study,” in association with colleagues from Jackson State University in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The article discusses the…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published a paper titled, "Evaluation of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality by Race and Ethnicity Among Pregnant and Recently Pregnant Women in the US, 2019 to 2020" in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Research has suggested trends of worsening maternal health associated with depression,…