Melva Thompson-Robinson, Jennifer Pharr, Marya Shegog (all Public Health) and Sandra Owens, along with Philip Danquah (Public Health alumni) presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo on the topic: HIV risk behaviors associated with the willingness to take PrEP among young university students in the…

Melva Thompson-Robinson, Johanna E. Andrews, Tristesse Burton (all Center for Health Disparities Research) and Kristina Ricker-Boles (Public Health), along with colleagues at other institutions, have a book chapter published in Researching in the Age of COVID-19, Volume III: Creativity and Ethics. This book explores dimensions of…

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and other colleagues from Comagine Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy recently published an article,"Prescription and Prescriber Specialty Characteristics of Initial Opioid Prescriptions Associated with Chronic Use" at the Journal of…

Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently co-authored an article on "Psychometric Evaluation of the Perceived Context of Reception Scale among Hispanic and Somali Adolescents" in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. This study validates the psychometric properties and correlates of the perceived context of reception (…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching & Learning) presented two poster presentations at 148th virtual annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. The first one was, “Efficacy of Meditation-based Interventions on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Veterans.” The second was “…

June Cho (Nursing) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published the article " Prenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment Completeness and Steroid Hormonal Levels as Related to Infant and Maternal Health" in The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing.

Jason Flatt, Francisco Sy, Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health), Timothy Bungum, and Sheniz Moonie (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with Jennifer Keeley, '19 Master of Public Health, and Karen S. Gutierrez, '17 BS Biology,  recently published an article on "Mental Health Disparities among Sexual Minorities"…

Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently received a $1.3 million grant for the Nevada Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a federally funded phone survey supported by the CDC that gathers self-reported chronic disease and health risk behavior information by state for a representative sample of adults 18…

Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) published the first national study on the health of intersex adults — an umbrella term for people born with differences in sex development in PLOS One. The work was also highlighted in the Bay Area Reporter and in Them.

Ann M. Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently published an article, "Ornithine and Breast Cancer: A Matched Case–Control Study" in the journal Scientific Reports. Breast cancer is a major public health problem worldwide as it remains the most common malignancy among females. In this study, the authors examined the association…

Courtney Coughenour, Maxim Gakh, Jennifer R. Pharr (all Environmental & Occupational Health), Timothy Bungum (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), and Sharon Jalene (Kinesiology) recently published an article on "Changes in Depression and Physical Activity Among College Students on a Diverse Campus After a COVID-19 Stay-at-Home" in the journal…

Kavita Batra and Manoj Sharma (both Environmental & Occupational Health) have published a commentary entitled, "Alcohol consumption in COVID-19 pandemic:  Implications for alcohol education" in the August 2020 issue of the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education in association with Vinayak Nahar of the University of Mississippi…