Asma Tahir and Alireza Rezaee (both Environmental and Occupational Health) presented a poster titled, "Comparison of the Airborne Fungal Spore Concentrations in Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert From 2020-2022," during the 2024 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting from February 23-26 in Washington, D.C.

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy, Center for Health Disparities Research) recently co-authored a paper, "Smoking Cessation and Pancreatic Cancer Risk in Individuals With Prediabetes and Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study," in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Laurencia Bonsu (Social and Behavioral Health), Priyambda Kumra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published a manuscript titled, “A Systematic Review of Binge Drinking Interventions and Bias Assessment among College Students and…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Effectiveness of pyriproxyfen-pyrethroid and chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) compared with pyrethroid-only LLINs for malaria control in the third year post-distribution: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial…

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) spoke at the UNLV Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on "Do you have a voice in healthcare? Three critical ways to influence your healthcare and improve your medical center."  

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “An intervention to improve antibiotic prescription behavior in veterinary students: A protocol based on multi-theory model to tackle antimicrobial resistance,” in the journal, Health Science Reports (Impact Factor: 2), with coauthors from Hormozgan…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has been elected a section councilor in the Integrative, Complementary, and Traditional Health Practices Section of the American Public Health Association for a three-year term. APHA is the largest and oldest professional organization in the field in the nation and Sharma has been…

The Nevada Minority Health and Equity Coalition (NMHEC) received an award from the National Foundation for Centers and Disease Control and Prevention for a total of $128,000. In partnership with the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the Nevada Office of Minority Health and Equity (NOMHE), NMHEC was selected to participate in the…

Emylia Terry, Jennifer Pharr, Ravi Batra (all Public Health) & Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a study, "Protective and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Behavior Among Sexual Minority Women in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study" in the LGBT Health journal. This study highlights that tackling structural inequities such as racism…

Henry Krasner, Jeffrey Martin, Crysty-Ann Olaco, Dale M. Netski, Kavita Batra (all Medicine) along with Nicolette Harmon (Public Health) published a study, "Community Level Correlates of COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Analysis," in the Vaccines journal. Krasner, Martin, Olaco are medical students and…

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article, "Trend in Respite Use by Race Among Caregivers for People Living with Dementia," in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Monitoring of Fabric Integrity and Attrition Rate of Dual-Active Ingredient Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets in Tanzania: A Prospective Cohort Study Nested in a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial" in the journal Insects.  This study evaluated the…