Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy,  Center for Health Disparities Research) co-authored "Hospital management and healthcare policy: financing, resourcing and accessibility" in Frontiers in Public Health.

Priyambda Kumra (Public Health) wrote a blog post "On Getting Vaccinated Against HPV" published on Shot@Life, an advocacy campaign of the United Nations Foundation. In the article, Kumra shares her HPV vaccination story, dispels myths about the vaccine, and calls for expanding access. Kumra is a graduate student.

Siddharth Raich, Christopher Johansen, Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), Neeraj Bhandari (Healthcare Administration), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article, titled, “Developing a theory-based instrument for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake in people of color using a qualitative approach,” in the journal Healthcare (…

Lung-Chang Chien and formal doctoral student Leigh Ann Richardson (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored “Short-term associations between precipitation and gastrointestinal illness-related hospital admissions: A multi-city study in Texas,” which published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The study conducted a…

Renato M. Liboro, Lianne Barnes, Sherry Bell, Brandon Ranuschio (all Psychology), Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health), recently published a peer-reviewed article in the Social Sciences journal entitled, "Lifetime Experiences of Housing Insecurity among Gay Men Living with HIV at…

Pearl Kim, Chris Cochran, Neeraj Bhanderi (all Healthcare Administration and Policy), Billy Bai  (Hospitality), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy, Center for Health Disparities Research) recently published "Increasing Emotional Distress and Use of Health Services among Hospitality Industry Workers During and After the COVID-…

Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Ji Won Yoo (Internal Medicine), and Tae Ha Chung (Internal Medicine) published an article, "Class III Obesity as a Risk Factor for Persistent Asthma," in Respiratory Care. They found that obesity was identified as a risk factor for persistent asthma,…

Ana Gonzalez-Alvarez (Social and Behavioral Health), Richard Rosenkranz, Chris Acosta, Andrew Hooyman, Jose Hidalgo, CindyRomina Ballesteros-Paniagua, and Sara Rosenkranz (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published, "Variability and error in measurement of infant formula powder and water: an experimental study," in the journal…

Jeffrey Martin, Henry Krasner, Crysty-Ann Olaco, Kavita Batra and Dale Netski (all Medicine), along with Nicolette Harmon (Public Health) received the Best Oral Presentation Award for their paper, "Community level correlates of COVID-19 booster vaccine hesitancy in the United States: A cross-sectional analysis," from the Vaccines journal in their…

Dr. Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) hosted and presented in a workshop titled, "R Programming for WQS, LWQS, and BYM Models," at the School of Public Health. This workshop was part of the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) Geospatial Project. Chien provided instruction to SNHD staff on writing R code to conduct variable…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has been ranked in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide (of about 29 million ranked) by ScholarGPS. This platform provides rankings of individuals and institutions Overall (in all Fields), in 14 broad Fields (such as Medicine, Engineering, or Humanities), in 177 Disciplines (such as…

Sidath Kapukotuwa, Tara Nerida, Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article, “Utilization of the Multi-theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change to Explain Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review,” In the journal, Health Promotion Perspectives (Impact Factor: 2.4). The article synthesizes…