Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health

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 and Nutrition Journal. This study found that household food insecurity was strongly associated with the…
Jason Flatt and Krystal Kittle (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored an article, "Recommendations for Advancing Research with Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B." The article provides an overview of SGM aging research disseminated in the journal, limitations, and…
Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored the article "Factors affecting substance use relapse among Iranian addicts" with colleagues from Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. The article identifies several factors responsible for relapse in substance use and underscores the need for educational and policy interventions…
Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a first-author of the newly published "Socio-demographic inequities in nurturing care for early childhood development across Brazilian municipalities" in the Maternal and Child Nutrition journal. Providing an enabling nurturing care environment for early childhood…
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…
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…
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…
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…