Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has once again been listed on Elsevier and Stanford University’s annual report of the top-cited researchers from across the globe based on the work completed during a single year and throughout the person’s career. The most recent list was published on Oct. 10, 2022, in PLOS Biology.…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has published a book titled, Evaluation and Measurement in Health Promotion, with Dr. Rick Lingyak Petosa of The Ohio State University through the publisher Wiley. The book guides current and future public health professionals in becoming experimenting practitioners who take a data-…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article titled, "Postprandial changes of oxidative stress biomarkers in healthy individuals," in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition.
This study aimed to examine the postprandial changes of fluorescent oxidation products, malondialdehyde, total antioxidant capacity, and Superoxide…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a paper titled, "Modified Multi-strain SIR Model for Emerging Viral Strains," at the 2023 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) on January 9-11, 2023, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The study presents deterministic and stochastic simulations of the spread of an emergent…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China,” in the International Journal of Public Health in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and…
Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Neighborhood socioeconomic status and mortality in the nurses' health study (NHS) and the nurses' health study II (NHSII)," in the journal Environmental Epidemiology.
Neighborhood effects are increasingly recognized as important contributors to health disparities…
Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with his colleague, "Alzheimer’s Disease Services, Staffing, and Outcomes in Adult Day Health Centers," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Ann Vuong's (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) pilot project on "Early life exposure to flame retardants and kidney function in adolescence" was funded by the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Infrastructure Network for $66,000.
Data from the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study will be used to examine whether early…
Working with their research collaborators from China, Jay Shen, Betty Burston, and Soumya Upadhyay (all Healthcare Administration and Policy) have just published a paper, "Epidemiological/Disease and Economic Burdens of Cervical Cancer in 2010–2014: Are Younger Women at Risk?," in Healthcare. The study examined the epidemiological…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Entomological Characteristics of Malaria Transmission across Benin: An Essential Element for Improved Deployment of Vector Control Interventions" in the journal Insects.
Entomological surveillance in Benin has historically been limited to zones where indoor…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Did Massachusetts' COVID-19 vaccine lottery increase vaccine uptake?," in the journal PLOS ONE. The authors' primary objective was to evaluate whether Massachusetts' COVID-19 vaccine lottery increased vaccine…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Multi-centre discriminating concentration determination of broflanilide and potential for cross-resistance to other public health insecticides in Anopheles vector populations" in the journal Scientific Reports.
Novel insecticides are urgently needed to control…