Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Occupational Health) received a one-year, $1.35 million award through the Nevada Health and Human Services to conduct molecular microbiological environmental monitoring and research.

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "A Pan Plasmodium lateral flow recombinase polymerase amplification assay for monitoring malaria parasites in vectors and human populations" in the journal Scientific Reports.  Robust diagnostic tools and surveillance are crucial for malaria control and…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing), Andrew Reyes (Nursing), Francisco Sy (Public Health), and Lorraine Evangelista (MW CTR-IN) co-authored an article, "Bridging the Gap: Reducing Health Inequities in Access to Preventive Healthcare Services in Rural Communities in the Philippines," in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. The study suggests that…

Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing), Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), and Lorraine Evangelista (Mountain West Clinical and Translational Infrastructure Network) recently published a paper in the Issues in Mental Health Nursing journal titled, “Testing the Effectiveness of a Mindfulness- and…

Sohail Akther, Sidath Kapukotuwa, Asma Awan, Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai, and Omolola Odejimi (both Education) published an article, “Theory-Based Determinants of Stopping Drowsy Driving Behavior in College Students: A Cross-Sectional Study,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public…

Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), along with colleagues Gabriela Buccini, Miguel Fudolig, Manoj Sharma (all Public Health), William McCarthy (UCLA), and Stephanie Pitts (East Carolina University), has been awarded a four-year, $748,052 grant (1R16GM154708-01) from the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The…

Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) received the 2024 Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of the Philippines Alumni Association on Aug. 17 in Manila, Philippines. The award honors Sy for devoting five decades of his life to public health and the empowerment of communities, and for mentoring and supporting…

Deborah A. Kuhls, Bertille Mavegam Tango, Kavita Batra , Noehealani Antolin (all Medicine), along with Courtney Coughenour, Max Gakh, William Porter, Darin Mains, Kacie Washburn (all Public Health), and William Sousa (Urban Affairs), presented findings from the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, resulting from SB 236 (…

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy,  Center for Health Disparities Research) co-authored "Hospital management and healthcare policy: financing, resourcing and accessibility" in Frontiers in Public Health.

Priyambda Kumra (Public Health) wrote a blog post "On Getting Vaccinated Against HPV" published on Shot@Life, an advocacy campaign of the United Nations Foundation. In the article, Kumra shares her HPV vaccination story, dispels myths about the vaccine, and calls for expanding access. Kumra is a graduate student.

Siddharth Raich, Christopher Johansen, Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), Neeraj Bhandari (Healthcare Administration), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article, titled, “Developing a theory-based instrument for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake in people of color using a qualitative approach,” in the journal Healthcare (…

Lung-Chang Chien and formal doctoral student Leigh Ann Richardson (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored “Short-term associations between precipitation and gastrointestinal illness-related hospital admissions: A multi-city study in Texas,” which published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The study conducted a…