Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra,  Anita Chatterjee, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented an oral presentation entitled, "Utilizing community-based participatory research based on the RQFSM model for evaluating health disparity reduction efforts in rural Nevada, 2021-2022," at the Rural…

Reimund Serafica (lead author) and Lorraine Evangelista (both Nursing), and Timothy Grigsby (Public Health) and Bradley Donohue (Psychology) co-authored an article, "Occupational Stress: A Concept Analysis with Implications for Immigrant Workers' Mental Health in the United States." The paper conceptually examined occupational stress among…

Tim Grigsby, Andrea Lopez (both Social and Behavioral Health), and colleagues authored a manuscript titled, "A Scoping Review of Risk and Protective Factors for Negative Cannabis Use Consequences" in the journal Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment.  Numerous reviews have examined risk and protective factors for alcohol-related negative…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health) was invited to present her book chapter, "Transgender Sports Bans are a Human Rights Issue," during the virtual Human Rights in Sports Conference on April 5. Pharr presented on the impact of transgender sports bans on transgender women athletes and the LGBTQ+ community. She discussed rights…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper titled, "Identification of two insecticide resistance markers in Ethiopian Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes using a multiplex amplicon sequencing assay," in the journal Scientific Reports. The expansion of Anopheles stephensi poses a significant threat to malaria control…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), Jennifer R. Pharr (Public Health), Axenya Kachen (UNR School of Medicine), Samantha Godbey (UNLV Libraries), and Emylia Terry (Public Health), published an article, "Investigating the psychological impact of COVID-19 among the sexual and gender minority population: A systematic review and meta-analysis," in the LGBT…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) published a research article titled, "State Protection Alignment Index as a Measure of Structural Stigma's Impact on the Mental Health of Sexual…

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and colleagues from Comagine Health (Michelle A. Hendricks), Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Scott G. Weiner, Michael A. Fischer), and Brandeis University (Grant Ritter) recently published a study. The study used several linked Oregon health datasets to investigate the risk of opioid overdose for…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) in collaboration with colleagues from Chongqing Medical University published an article titled, “Effect of WeChat-based intervention on food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices among university students in Chongqing, China: a quasi-experimental study,” in the Journal of Health,…

Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health) received funding from the National Institute of Health to promote NIH's All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to collect and study data from one million or more people living in the United States. The goal of the program is better health for all of…

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Racial Disparity in Disruption to Basic Needs Among Medicare Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). The authors' primary objective was to…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “Application of an RQFSM model (reach, quality, fidelity, satisfaction, management) for community-based participatory evaluation of public health initiatives,” at the Cukurova 10th International Scientific Research…