Accomplishments: Department of Healthcare Administration and Policy

Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, and Haniyeh Shariatma (all Healthcare Administration and Policy), along with their collaborators at the Optum Care, recently presented a paper, "Hit by the COVID-19: Who Are Using Telehealth Services in Outpatient Care Settings?," at the International Health Economics Association World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.…
Jay Shen and Zahra Mojtahedi (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), Heiley Ephrem and Parsa Khawari (both Public Health) recently presented a paper, "Disease and Economic Burdens of Respiratory Conditions prior to and since the COVID-19," at the International Health Economics Association World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. Mojtahedi…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article, "Association of Sources of COVID-19 Information With Vaccine Uptake, Preventive Behaviors, and Perceived Severity of COVID-19," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA).
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Chris Cochran (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article titled, "Heterogeneity of Asthma Care Among Hispanic Subgroups Lower Utilization of Hospital-based Care among Spanish-speaking Hispanics," in Medical Care. They found that…
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published a paper, "Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea,” in Economic and Human Biology. This study found a strong association between upward mobility and happiness among the aged 40–49, who had the largest proportion of upwardly mobile individuals and spent…
Barbara Lewis (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) published the article "Analysis of CEPH-accredited online public health doctoral programs and MPH degree holder demand" in the journal Frontiers in Public Health. Lewis is a doctoral student. The number of doctoral programs to train…
In the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, interdisciplinary UNLV 'NIHAN' and UNR Sanford Center ICECAP project teams — Sidkazem Taghva, Mingon Kang (Computer Science); Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration & Policy; Public Health), Laurie Kim, Ji Yoo (Medicine) — were invited to present…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) has received a subaward grant from the project titled, "Suicide Death Among Older Adults Receiving Residential Long-Term Care," sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of this study is to evaluate systematically the risk for suicide mortality among nursing home and assisted…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Racial Disparity in Disruption to Basic Needs Among Medicare Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). The authors' primary objective was to…
Zahra Mojtahedi (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health), Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Parsa Khawari (Public Health), Hailey Ephrem (Public Health), and Jay Shen (Center for Health Disparities Research, Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published a paper titled, "…
Jay Shen, Betty Burston, Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration and Policy), with their collaborating researchers in China, recently published a paper, "Epidemiological/Disease and Economic Burdens of Cervical Cancer in 2010–2014: Are Younger Women at Risk?," on Healthcare. 
Kyle Henson (Healthcare Administration and Policy) is a recipient of the undergraduate Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Scholarship Award for 2023. The HIMSS Foundation awards two $5,000 HIMSS Student Member scholarships annually: one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate student. The scholarships are for HIMSS…