Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored the article "Influence of the request and purchase of television advertised foods on dietary intake and obesity among children in China" with colleagues from Chongqing Medical University.  The study identifies the role that television advertisements and accompanying purchases…

Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Household food insecurity and early childhood development in Brazil: an analysis of children under 2 years of age," in the Public Health Nutrition journal. The study found that household food insecurity is strongly associated…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) recently published the Korean language translated version of his book, Introduction to Community and Public Health (2nd edition; Jossey-Bass), that he wrote with co-author Paul Branscum of Miami University. The book serves a formerly unmet need for students in South Korea and will benefit the…

Manoj Sharma, Jason Flatt (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), published an article, “Testing the Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Predict the Use of New Technology for Social Connectedness in the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the journal, Healthcare. The article tackles the public health issue of social isolation that…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) have published an article on "Lagged Meteorological Impacts on COVID-19 Incidence among High-risk Counties in the United States—a Spatiotemporal Analysis" in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. This study…

Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article that highlighted how "Pandemic-related Work Status is Associated with Self-reported Increases in Substance Abuse." This online study assessed self-reported increases in substance use (alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and opioid pain medication) during the initial…

Micajah Daniels, Manoj Sharma (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a commentary, "Social Media, Stress and Sleep Deprivation: A Triple “S” among Adolescents" in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The commentary discuss the impact of social media on youth development and implications for…

Chad L. Cross (Environmental & Occupational Health), along with Dr. Richard Gerhold (College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee) presented some of their collaborative research at the annual meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists in June. Their poster, "Assessing the Human Healthcare Burden of Zoonotic…

Chad L. Cross (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an extension outreach publication with Peter DiGennaro (Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida) on the sealworm nematode (Pseudoterranova decipiens). This parasitic nematode is common in marine systems, but opportunistically affects humans when ingested…

Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Adverse Childhood Experiences and Past 30-day Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority College Students" in the journal LGBT Health. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults report disproportionately higher rates of…

Dr. Francisco S. Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the new principal investigator (PI) of the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Infrastructure Network grant. The National Institutes of Health approved his appointment as the new PI of this grant on June 7. The goal of this $20 million, five-year grant project…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), associate professor, and Kavita Batra (Medicine), statistician, recently published  "Propensity Score Analysis Assessing the Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases among the Transgender Population in the United States Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2017…