Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) co-published an article titled, "Telehealth and Outpatient Visits Among Individuals with Chronic Conditions by Socioeconomic Status in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observational Cohort Study," in the Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health. The authors' primary objective was to…
From the Nevada State Aging Disability Services Division, UNLV ($196,739), UNR, and Comazine Health are awarded to train Nevada healthcare providers to enhance their digital health capabilities of serving Nevada older and vulnerable adults. 4M (What Matters, Mobility, Medication, Mentation) framework is overarched with the ACGME competencies. The…
Emylia Terry (Environmental and Occupational Health) has received a 2022 Injury and Violence Prevention Student Research Grant from the Colorado School of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Center (IVPC).
This grant was created by IVPC to support students who are pursing research or evaluation projects in the field of injury and…
Smriti Neupane (Public Health) has been selected to receive the International Student and Scholar Services International Student Distinguished Contribution Award for the fall 2022 semester.
The purpose of the UNLV International Student and Scholar Services International Student Distinguished Contribution Award is to recognize and acknowledge a…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), along with researchers from Desert Research Institute, University of California, Riverside, and California Air Resources Board, recently published an article, "Evidence of non-tailpipe emission contributions to PM2.5 and PM10 near southern California highways…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published "Substance Use Outcomes For Sexual and Gender Minority Adults With a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Scoping Review" in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports.
The goal of this scoping review was to collect, summarize, and synthesize existing research on Adverse…
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published an article titled "A higher Asthma Medication Ratio (AMR) predicts a decrease in ED visits among African American and Hispanic Children" in the Journal of Asthma.
Higher rates of ED visits and hospitalizations for asthma…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper titled "Associations of gestational exposure to organophosphate esters with gestational age and neonatal anthropometric measures: The HOME study" in the journal Environmental Pollution.
Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are developmental toxicants in experimental studies of animals, but…
Kristina Mihajlovski, Mark Buttner, Patricia Cruz, Brian Labus, Elizabeth Detrick (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Barbara St. Pierre Schneider (University of Texas at Arlington) co-authored the article "SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance with Environmental Surface Sampling in Public Areas" in the journal PLoS ONE.
The objective of this…
Bertille Assoumou (Medicine), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amruta Godbole (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ian McDonough (Economics) published an article titled, "Senior food insecurity in the USA: a systematic literature review," in the journal Public Health Nutrition.
After examining 20 articles, they found…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) were featured in the news outlet, "Sunday GuardianLive," through which they discussed the problem of excessive "screen-watching" among preschoolers in India. This has come to light through their previous research study published in the Community Health Equity Research…
A Persian translation of the popular book by Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) titled, Introspective meditations for complete contentment (Santosha), was published this month (ISBN 978-622-7703-38-02). The book combines the collective wisdom from Eastern and Western thoughts and is based on the behavioral tenets…