Siddharth Raich (Social and Behavioral Health) received the American Public Health Association (APHA) Cancer Forum's Inaugural Cancer Public Health Student Award at this year's APHA national conference. This award recognizes student achievement and passion in addressing cancer screening disparities and engagement with research and leadership…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) orally presented the paper, "Explaining readiness to change in physical inactivity behavior among college students in Mississippi using perfection quotient (PQ) model," at the 150th American Public Health Association annual meeting in Boston. He was also a co-presenter on 11 other presentations at this…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled, “Explaining physical activity behavior among university students in Fiji Islands using the multi-theory model of health behavior change: A cross-sectional study” with coauthors from Fiji National University and Berea College. The article lends…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored with colleagues at Chongqing Medical University the article “Understanding and use of nutrition labels of prepackaged food by university students: A cross-sectional study in Chongqing, China,” in the journal Nutrients (Impact Factor 6.706). The article highlights the need for developing…

Manoj Sharma, Ravi Batra (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and coauthors from the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Utah have published an article titled, “Assessing the testability of the multi-theory model (MTM) in predicting vaping quitting behavior among young adults in…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an abstract titled, “Associations of perceived skin cancer absolute risk and comparative risk with sunscreen use among patients with keratinocyte carcinoma,” in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (the first-ranked journal in Dermatology with an IF of 11.527) along with…

Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Christopher Johansen, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented two papers at Nevada Public Health Association’s Annual Conference on September 13 and 14, 2022. The papers were titled, “Disparities in cervical cancer screening programs among minority women in the United…

Asma Awan, Siddharth Raich, Brittany Klenczar, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Miklo Alcala (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented two papers at Nevada Public Health Association’s Annual Conference on September 13 and September 14, 2022.  The papers were titled, “A model-based community-based…

Emylia Terry (Public Health), Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), Jason Flatt, and Krystal Kittle (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented a poster on "Problem Gambling within the LGBTQIA+ Community: A Community Needs Assessment Survey Approach" at the National LGBTQ Health Conference in Chicago, Illinois, in July. Terry…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article titled, "Adverse childhood experiences and alcohol related negative consequence among college student drinkers," in the journal, Addictive Behaviors. The objective of the study was to find the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and alcohol-related negative…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) presented on "State protection alignment index as a measure of structural stigma's impact on the mental health of sexual and gender…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) was a senior author on a recently published paper, "Divergent patterns of cognitive deficits and structural brain alterations between older adults in mixed-sex and same-sex relationships," in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.