In The News: School of Public Health
The Nevada Minority Health and Equity Coalition (NMHEC) received a $ 500,000 grant to create the #OneCommunity campaign, an outreach campaign about COVID-19, which aims to inform populations in Nevada risk. The foregoing was made known by Ericka Avilés –advisor- and Nicole Santero –UNLV School of Public Health-, through a statement sent to the main local media.
Ghosts, goblins and witches were not spared by the coronavirus pandemic as Halloween takes new shape this year. But it is possible to celebrate with some new safety measures.
Nevada’s positivity rate of new COVID-19 tests is increasing, but state officials confirmed that Johns Hopkins University published an extremely high rate this week that is erroneous.
Older people who report greater levels of social engagement have more robust gray matter in regions of the brain relevant in dementia, according to new research. It is the first to use a particularly sensitive type of brain imaging to conduct such an evaluation. The findings may have ramifications for older people practicing COVID-19 social isolation.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold an in-person rally in Carson City on Sunday.
UNLV doctoral student Casey Barber was keeping an eye on the COVID-19 situation even before the first case was reported in the United States. And starting in March — after confirmed cases cropped up in Southern Nevada — the 25-year-old Las Vegas native was among seven UNLV public health graduate students who volunteered to help the Southern Nevada Health District with contact tracing.
The first US study of its kind paints a concerning picture of the mental and physical health status of intersex adults.
Southern Nevada colleges and universities have seen a slight uptick in weekly reports of COVID-19 cases among students, but numbers still remain low overall.
Nevada’s average number of newly identified COVID-19 cases is more than double what it was in mid-September, a trend that a top health official says will likely lead to more deaths next month.
This summer, nearly a third of a local manufacturing company’s workforce caught COVID-19.