Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article titled, "Adverse childhood experiences and alcohol related negative consequence among college student drinkers," in the journal, Addictive Behaviors. The objective of the study was to find the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and alcohol-related negative…

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) presented on "State protection alignment index as a measure of structural stigma's impact on the mental health of sexual and gender…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a recipient of a 2022 Springer Nature Editorial Contributions Award for her editorial service to the Malaria Journal. Through their assessment of new submissions and rigorous management of the peer review process, Springer Nature's editors and editorial board members safeguard the…

Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an extension outreach publication with Estelle Martin and Lucas Brendel from University of Florida's Department of Entomology and Nematology on the human flea (Pulex irritans). This flea often lives in close association with humans and has been implicated as a potentially important…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored an article on "Maternal urinary OPE metabolite concentrations and blood pressure during pregnancy: The HOME study" in the journal, Environmental Research. The study found that maternal urinary bis(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (BCEP) and diphenyl phosphate (DPHP) concentrations were…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) was a senior author on a recently published paper, "Divergent patterns of cognitive deficits and structural brain alterations between older adults in mixed-sex and same-sex relationships," in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Jocy-Anna Chevalier (Public Health), Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Rebecca Scherr (Pediatrics), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Pediatric Obesity in Southern Nevada" in the Journal of Childhood Obesity. In March 2020, schools in Nevada were issued a lockdown…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental & Occupational Health) is a co-author of the article, "High-throughput barcoding method for the genetic surveillance of insecticide resistance and species identification in Anopheles gambiae complex malaria vectors", in the journal Scientific Reports. Genetic barcoding of mosquitoes is a useful tool to assist…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) was awarded a pilot grant through the Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) for a project titled "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use Among U.S. Older Adults, 2015-2019." The project is a secondary data analysis of publicly available nationally…

Soumya Upadhyay's (Healthcare Administration and Policy) paper titled "Physician Hospital Integration and its Effect on Hospital Performance: A Study of U.S. Hospitals" was among the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management's 'Best Paper' finalists and also received a Runners-Up award.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled “COVID-19 Infection among Family and Friends: The Psychological Impact on Non-Infected Persons” in the journal Brain Sciences. The article was written in collaboration with authors from New Mexico State University, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, University of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled, “Psychological help-seeking among college students: Applying the multi-theory model of health behavior change in assessing telehealth use for psychological help-seeking” in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine in association with coauthors from the University of…