Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Courtney Coughenour (Environmental & Occupational Health) was interviewed by Insider for an article on "What Causes Road Rage? Big, Expensive Cars." which highlighted a 2020 study by School of Public Health faculty.
Kavita Batra (Medicine), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Jennifer R. Pharr, and Emylia Terry (both Environmental and Occupational Health) published a study, "Assessing Psychological Impact of COVID-19 among Parents of Children Returning to K-12 Schools: A U.S. Based Cross-Sectional Survey," in the Healthcare journal. The purpose…
Amruta Godbole, Sheniz Moonie, Ann Vuong (all Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental & Occupational Health) along with Cai Zhang of Tongji Hospital and Aimen Chen of the University of Pennsylvania, published a paper on "Exploratory analysis of the associations between neonicotinoids and measures of adiposity…
Kavita Batra ('20 Ph.D. Public Health and Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine) with Farooq Abdulla (University Medical Center of Southern Nevada), and Patricia Cruz, Chad L. Cross, Neeraj Bhandari, Jennifer R. Pharr, and Mark P. Buttner (all Environmental & Occupational Health), co-authored an article, "Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures of…
Dieu-My Tran (Nursing), and Chad L. Cross (Environmental and Occupational Health), along with Iris Martinez, '21 BS Nursing, and Dr. Yumei Feng Earley, contributed to the article "MOBILE Intervention Pilot Study in College Students With Elevated Blood Pressure" recently published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. The study explored…
Andrew Thomas Reyes, Ehdzky-Ray M. Manzano (both Nursing), and Chad L. Cross (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored, “The Moderating Role of Resilience on Mindfulness, Experiential Avoidance, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms of College Student Veterans: A Cross-Sectional Study,” which is published in the Issues in…
Congratulations to the recipients of these 2022 UNLV teaching awards:
Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award
Xiaoling Hays - Chinese/World Languages and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts
Elizabeth "Hope" Hinchman - School of Nursing
Yousif Muradian - Finance, Lee School of Business
Hiroko Tadano - Japanese/World Languages and…
Asma Tahir (Environmental & Occupational Health) presented a poster on "Comparison of the Airborne Fungal Spore Concentrations in the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas 2016-2020" at the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology annual meeting in Phoenix last month.
The poster also has been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical…
Erika Marquez (Environmental & Occupational Health) is principal investigator on a $1.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received by the Nevada Childhood Lead Poisoning Preventing Program (NvCLPPP). The program is under the Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy. NvCLPPP will be working…
Patricia Cruz, Mark Buttner, and David Woodard (all Environmental and Occupational Health), along with Adam Obenza, '19 Master of Public Health, co-authored an article, “Microbial Contamination on Ambulance Surfaces: A Systematic Literature Review,” in the Journal of Hospital Infection.
The aim of the study was to determine whether…
Tim Grigsby (Social & Behavioral Health) co-published an article on "Domains matter: A prospective investigation of traditional female gender roles and alcohol use among Latinas" in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse.
Scholars suggest traditional feminine gender roles (TFGRs) influence alcohol use among U.S. Latinas, but relevant…
Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the first author along with Maxim Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) on the article "Assessing Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine…