Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Malcolm Ahlo (Southern Nevada Health District), Kacie Washburn (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article titled, "…
Brian Labus and Casey Barber (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a talk titled, "Everybody poops: the basics of wastewater surveillance and how it can provide an unbiased insight into infectious disease transmission in the community," during the 2023 Nevada Environmental Health Association & Nevada Food Safety Task Force Joint…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with opioid addiction helping behaviour in tri-state Appalachian counties: Application of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model–cross-sectional analysis,” in the journal, BMJ Open (Impact Factor: 3.007), in…
Arpita Basu, Ph.D., MPH, RD/LD (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Lung-Chang Chien, Ph.D., (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Leigh Ann Richardson (Public Health), along with colleagues recently published, "Longitudinal associations of healthy dietary pattern scores with coronary artery calcification and pericardial adiposity in US adults…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a study titled, "Incomplete and Confounded Block Designs in Visual Inference Experiments," during the 2023 International Conference on Design of Experiments on May 8-11 in Memphis, Tennessee.
The study explores the use of confounded and balanced incomplete block designs in making visual…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article entitled, “Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics in type 1 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of clinical trials,” in the journal, Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews (Impact Factor: 8.128) in association with colleagues from Ishafan…
Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored an article titled, "Influence of neighborhood social and natural environment on prostate tumor histology in a cohort of male health professionals" in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Adverse neighborhood social and natural (greenspace) environments may contribute to prostate cancer…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Differential impact of dual-active ingredient long-lasting insecticidal nets on primary malaria vectors: a secondary analysis of a 3-year, single-blind, cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Tanzania" in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.
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In the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, interdisciplinary UNLV 'NIHAN' and UNR Sanford Center ICECAP project teams — Sidkazem Taghva, Mingon Kang (Computer Science); Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration & Policy; Public Health), Laurie Kim, Ji Yoo (Medicine) — were invited to present…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and colleagues published an article on "Metal contents and size distributions of brake and tire wear particles dispersed in the near-road environment" in the journal Science of The Total Environment.
This study monitored air quality at near-road environments, focusing on…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) received a grant of $449, 611 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s “National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved” administered through the Nevada State Health and Human Services Department. He is the…
Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Discordance in chromosomal and self-reported sex in the UK Biobank: Implications for transgender- and intersex-inclusive data collection. We found about 200 individuals in UKBiobank with sex discordance…