Jason Flatt (Department of Social and Behavioral Health) along with colleagues recently published, "Functional Limitations and Access to Long-Term Services and Supports Among Sexual Minority Older Adults" in the Journal of Applied Gerontology. Using cross-sectional data from the 2016 Health and Retirement Study, they found that bisexual older…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored the interdisciplinary chapter “The associations between home economics education and familial risk factors for delinquency:  An exploratory study” in the research monograph, “The justice system and the family: Police, courts, and incarceration” published by Emerald Publishing from the…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a project titled "Analysis of Stakeholder Networks to Strengthen the Prevention of Childhood Obesity and the Caring for Children With Obesity in Brazil" published in the Current Developments in Nutrition. The project aimed to map and describe the influence level (i.e., power) of…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) recently was interviewed for the "City Cast Las Vegas" podcast. In the interview, she discusses why the recent formula shortage had put infants in a food insecurity situation and explains how this connects to the U.S. breastfeeding policies. 

Krystal Kittle (Social & Behavioral Health) has been accepted into the 2022-23 cohort of the San Diego Alzheimer's Disease Research Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR) Scientists for her research proposal on "Racial/Ethnically Diverse Sexual and Gender Minority Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) delivered an invited talk, “Utilizing the Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Measure Determinants of the Intent to Overcome Implicit Bias among Emergency Department Personnel” to the Florida State University Emergency Medicine’s Annual Research Day. The talk highlighted a joint…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, "Development of Nutrition Literacy Scale for Middle School Students in Chongqing, China: A Cross-Sectional Study" in the journal, Frontiers in Nutrition in association with co-authors from Chongqing Medical University and Qatar University.  The article presents a valid and…

Tim Grigsby (Social & Behavioral Health) co-authored an article on "The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Utilization of Different HIV Testing Strategies Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Texas" in the journal AIDS and Behavior. The study's findings support the need for a deeper understanding of the role adverse…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of Alabama have been awarded a grant for $174,683 by Pfizer. They will be conducting research on disparities in psychological health and help-seeking in alopecia areata patients in Mississippi's…

Manoj Sharma, Siddharth Raich (both Social and Behavioral Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) with Francesco Chirico of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy) published an article, “A Multi-theory Model-based Analysis of Correlates for Initiating and Sustaining Mammography Screening Behavior among Hispanic American Women in the United…

G Liu (Finance) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) presented an interdisciplinary poster entitled, “Effect of Fear of Missing Out in Cryptocurrencies and Meme Stocks in a University Population” at the 15th annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling held in Las Vegas earlier this month. Liu, a graduate student, secured a grant…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), along with Jagdish Khubchandani of New Mexico State University, published a manuscript, “COVID-19 Booster Vaccination Hesitancy in the United States: A Multi-theory-model (MTM)-based National Assessment” in the journal Vaccines (Impact…