Gillian Gottlieb, Lisa Menegatos (Honors), Brenna Renn (Psychology), with Corrin Sullivan, Dale Netski and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) presented a poster of their study, "The Mental Health Impact Among College Students in the Post-COVID-19 Phase" at the Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium held at UNLV.  Gottlieb is graduating this…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored chapter, "COVID-19 Pandemic and Cross-Strait Relations," in the new book, Public Opinion, Policy Responses, and Party Politics under the COVID-19 Pandemic. In the chapter, Wang and others reviewed how China and Taiwan governments responded to the cross-strait relationships…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Relationships among Sleep Time, Physical Activity Time, Screen Time, and Nutrition Literacy of Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study in Chongqing, China,” with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University in the journal Nutrients (Impact factor 5.7). The…

Arpita Basu (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences), Leigh Ann Richardson and Lung-Chang Chien (both Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published the research paper Longitudinal associations of the alternative healthy eating index with coronary artery calcification and pericardial adiposity in US adults with and without type 1 diabetes in the…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper on "Insecticide Resistance in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes: Possible Detection of kdr F1534C, S989P, and V1016G Triple Mutation in Benin, West Africa" in the journal Insects. The effectiveness of chemical control of Aedes (Ae.) aegypti is threatened by the…

Katherine Howard, Austin Williams, Karl Kingsley, and Jace Porter (all Dental) published their manuscript "Higher Prevalence of the Periodontal Pathogen Selenomonas noxia among Pediatric and Adult Patients May Be Associated with Overweight and Obesity" in the journal MDPI Pathogens.

Noehealani Antolin (Public Health), Manoj Sharma (Public Health), Gabriela Buccini (Public Health), Chad Cross (Public Health), Eduardo Robleto (Life Sciences), Jason Flatt (Public Health) gave an oral presentation on "Understanding Fruit and Vegetables Consumption Behaviors Among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander College…

Ana Reyes, Noehealani Antolin, Nicole Bacani, Bertille Mavegam Tango, Kavita Batra, and Deborah Kuhls (all Medicine) presented a lightning talk on their abstract titled, "A descriptive analysis of Nevada non-adjudicated speeding citations (2018-2021), distressed communities, and transportation insecurity" at the Nevada Public Health Association…

Aastha Poudel, Asma Awan, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper titled, " A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programs: A comprehensive review" at the 2024 Nevada Public Health Association Annual Conference held…