Sfurti Rathi (Public Health), Neeraj Bhandari, Chris Cochran, and Jay Shen (all Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published a paper, "Potential Disease Reduction and Health Care Cost Savings from A Hypothetical Comprehensive Smoke-Free Law in Nevada," on Nevada Journal of Public Health. The study was a collaboration with the…

Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "Scaling Up of Brazil’s Criança Feliz Early Childhood Development Program: An Implementation Science Analysis" in the Annals of the New York Academy of Science. To address inequities that prevent socioeconomically vulnerable young children from reaching…

Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health), co-authored a publication "Advanced Dementia: Recommendations to Address Workforce Needs," in OBM Geriatrics.    

Melva Thompson-Robinson and Johanna Adlam (both Center for Health Disparities Research) published a paper on "COVID-19 and Communities of Color: Understanding the Impact of Racism on Public Health" in the Nevada Journal of Public Health. In light of the recent declarations of racism as a public health crisis, the push to address the…

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration), Ji Yoo, (Medicine), Pearl Kim, '19 PhD Pubic Health, Jinwook Hwang, and others recently published an article, "Trends of Hospital Palliative Care Utilization and Its Associated Factors Among Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the United States From 2005 to 2014," on American Journal of…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "Correlates of COVID-19 Pandemic-related Increases in Sleep Aid and Anti-anxiety Medication Use" in the Journal of Substance Use. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a stressful environment of fear, isolation, and economic instability. This study quantifies…

Jay Shen, Pearl Kim (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Dr. Ji Yoo (Medicine) recently co-authored an article, "Opioid Use Disorders and Hospital Palliative Care among Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers: Ten-year Trend and Associated Factors in the U.S. from 2005 to 2014," published on Medicine.

Asma Tahir, Samin Kamal, Mark Buttner (all Environmental & Occupational Health), and Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences), along with Joseph Jean, '18 BS Health Education and '20 Master of Public Health, and local allergist/immunologist Dr. Jorem Seggev, presented a virtual poster at the 2021 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published a peer-reviewed conference paper, "Applying Advanced Data Analytics Methods to the Baseline Data of ISD Sensor Network Testbed for System Failure Detection," in the proceeding of the Waste Management Symposia 2021. In this work, advanced data analytics methods are applied to the in-…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored an article, “Skin Cancer in Skin of Color. The Importance of Expanding Education and Prevention Efforts to Include This Community” in collaboration with colleagues from University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Mississippi Medical Center in the Journal of Dermatology…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business), Axenya Kachen (Public Health), Rebecca Gill (Political Science), Paula Peter, and Maria Petrescu recently had their A- level psychology and marketing interdisciplinary paper, "#MeToo, #MeThree, #MeFour: Twitter as Community Building across Academic and Corporate Institutions" published. Kachen…

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Niema Y. Beckford, and Eddy M. Virgen (both Public Health), along with Yunyu Xiao, Purdue University Indianapolis; Caroline D. Bergeron,  Public Health Agency of Canada; and Matthew L. Smith, Texas A&M University, recently published an article, "Suicide Distribution and Trends Among Male…