Ann Vuong's (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) pilot project on "Early life exposure to flame retardants and kidney function in adolescence" was funded by the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Infrastructure Network for $66,000. Data from the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study will be used to examine whether early…

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Did Massachusetts' COVID-19 vaccine lottery increase vaccine uptake?," in the journal PLOS ONE. The authors' primary objective was to evaluate whether Massachusetts' COVID-19 vaccine lottery increased vaccine…

Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published an article titled "A higher Asthma Medication Ratio (AMR) predicts a decrease in ED visits among African American and Hispanic Children" in the Journal of Asthma. Higher rates of ED visits and hospitalizations for asthma…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper titled "Associations of gestational exposure to organophosphate esters with gestational age and neonatal anthropometric measures: The HOME study" in the journal Environmental Pollution. Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are developmental toxicants in experimental studies of animals, but…

Bertille Assoumou (Medicine), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amruta Godbole (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ian McDonough (Economics) published an article titled, "Senior food insecurity in the USA: a systematic literature review," in the journal Public Health Nutrition. After examining 20 articles, they found…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Epidemiological, Entomological, and Climatological Investigation of the 2019 Dengue Fever Outbreak in Gewane District, Afar Region, North-East Ethiopia" in the journal Insects. Dengue Fever (DF) is an important…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was appointed to the international council of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) for the term 2022-2028. ISID has a mission to is to "support health professionals, non-government organizations, and governments around the world in their work to prevent, investigate, and manage…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Gestational exposure to organophosphate esters and infant anthropometric measures in the first 4 weeks after birth" in the journal Science of the Total Environment.  Few studies have examined whether gestational exposure to organophosphate esters (OPEs), widely used…

Jennifer Pharr (EOH), Lung-Chang Chien (EAB), Max Gakh (EOH), Jason Flatt (SBH), Krystal Kittle (SBH), and Emylia Terry (EOH) from the School of Public Health recently published, "Moderating Effect of Community and Individual Resilience on Structural Stigma and Suicidal Ideation among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults in the United…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Childhood urinary organophosphate esters and cognitive abilities in a longitudinal cohort study" in the journal Environmental Research. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between urinary metabolites of three common organophosphate esters (OPEs) measured up…

Ann Vuong's (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) project titled "Early life organophosphate ester (OPE) exposures and adiposity and cardiometabolic health during adolescence" has received over $2 million in grant funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research reported…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was appointed by the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to serve as a subject matter expert on the Human Studies Review Board (HSRB), a federal committee that operates in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act to review and comment on proposed and completed research…