Asma Awan, program manager, and Manoj Sharma, professor and chair, (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper at the Aging & Social Change: Thirteenth Interdisciplinary Conference, on Sept. 15, 2023, at Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy. The paper was titled, “Prevalence of correlates of the multi-theory…

Asma Awan, Siddharth Raich, Anita Chatterjee, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), Miklo Alcala and Priyambda Kumra (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented a paper at Nevada Public Health Association’s Annual Conference on September 13, 2023.  The paper was titled, “An analysis of socio-demographic…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), presented a paper titled, “Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) Applied to Process Evaluation in Nevada: An Application of the Dovetailing of the RQFSM Model with CBPR,” at the 13th International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society in Vancouver, Canada. Participants…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has coauthored a publication titled, “Associations of Deep Sleep and Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Family Relationships, Life Satisfaction and Physical Stress Experience in Children: A Caregiver Perspective,” in association with colleagues from Northwestern University, the University of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Micajah Daniels (Social and Behavioral Health) have authored the article “College Students' Readiness to Change in Physical Inactivity Behavior using Perfection Quotient Behavioral Model” with colleagues from the University of Mississippi, University of Mississippi Medical Center,…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) had his work on Introspective Meditation (manan dhyana), a technique for finding complete inner contentment (Santosha), that he has copyrighted, featured in The Daily Guardian, for one of its applications. This application is, “Introspective meditation as a spiritual tool before…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) co-published an article titled, “Effects of cinnamon on anthropometric indices and headache-related disability of patients with migraine: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial,” in association with colleagues from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad University…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual keynote address titled, “The Emergence of the Fourth-generation Multi-theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Health Promotion Research,” at the 1st International Health Literacy, Health Education and Health Promotion Congress and the 4th Congress on Health…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Aditi Singh (Internal Medicine) along with a faculty member from University of Southern Mississippi published…

Mohammad Sohail Akhter (Social and Behavioral Health), an incoming graduate student received the Injury and Prevention Student Research Grant from The Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus for the academic year 2023-24. His project is titled, “Theory-based determinants of stopping drowsy driving…

Tim Grigsby, Andrea Lopez (both Social and Behavioral Health), Rei Serafica (Nursing), and colleagues published a paper titled, "Mental Health and Substance Misuse Indicators Associated with First-Time Homelessness among a Community Sample of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults," in the journal Behavioral Medicine. This study explores the…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently received a five-year, over $3.5 million grant (1R01AG083177-01) from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, "Enhancing Measurement and Characterization of Roles and Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Caregivers of Persons living with Alzheimer's Disease and…