Timothy Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Andrea Lopez (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on "Development and preliminary validation of the positive consequences of cannabis (PCOC) scale" in the journal Addictive Behaviors. The goal of the study was to develop and test…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored "Synthesizing Best Practices to Promote Health Equity for Older Adults Through Community-Engaged Research" in the journal, Research in Gerontological Nursing. This review article highlights how community-engaged research can help to promote health equity among older adults, including an…

Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article, "Trends in forgone medical care and unmet needs among Medicare beneficiaries with a history of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national, repeated cross-sectional study," in the BMJ Open. 

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper on "Maternal and newborn metabolomic changes associated with urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolite concentrations at delivery: an untargeted approach" in the journal Metabolomics. Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been associated with…

Manoj Sharma, Christopher Johansen, Sidath Kapukotuwa (all Social and Behavioral Health), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Bertille Assoumou (Surgery) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of Eating Outside-of-Home Behavior in a Nationally…

Michael Wong (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Dharini Bhammar (Ohio State Univeristy) recently published their article, "Acute Effects of Albuterol on Ventilatory Capacity in Children with Asthma," in the journal Pediatric Reports. 

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Patterns of urinary organophosphate ester metabolite trajectories in children: the HOME Study" in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. Organophosphate esters (OPEs) have replaced flame retardant polybrominated diphenyl ethers as flame retardants in…

Thomas Bloodgood III (Healthcare Administration and Policy) is a recipient of the undergraduate Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Scholarship Award for 2024. The HIMSS Foundation awards two $5,000 HIMSS Student Member scholarships annually: one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate student. The scholarships are for…

Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored a chapter on "The Community-Engaged Research Process" that is featured in a newly published book, Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice. The book shows how community-engaged research makes unique contributions to environmental justice by centering…

Zahra Mojtahedi (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy, Center for Health Disparities and Research) recently published a paper, "Telehealth Utilization and Good Care among Informal Caregivers: Health Information National Trends Survey, 2022," in Healthcare. Mojtahedi is a doctoral student.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Food safety-related practices among residents aged 18–75 years during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study in Southwest China,” in the journal BMC Public Health (Impact factor 4.1) with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University. The…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) is a recipient of the Service Member Patriot Award, a recognition earned through the nomination of her doctoral student, Keishmer Cardoso, a captain in the National Guard. This distinguished award acknowledges the support provided by individual supervisors and bosses to an employee serving in the…