Merika Charupoom (Medicine), Nicole Bacani (Medicine), Emily Carter (Medicine), Emily Strickler, Laura K. Gryder (Academic Affairs), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine), presented their study titled, "Injury Inequity Among Nevada Pedestrians: Assessment Using Measurements of Community Needs," during the American Public Health…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) participated in a panel discussion for the seminar on "Theories of Decoloniality and Mobility in Central America and the Caribbean" at Toronto Metropolitan University. The event was part of the Rights of Children and Youth Partnership: Fortalecimiento de la Colaboración en las Américas. 

The Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest (Romania) hosted a four-day workshop that consisted of a guided discussion of Russ Hurlburt’s (Psychology) book Describing Inner Experience? (MIT, 2007, with UC Riverside professor Eric Schwitzgebel). Hurlburt made a meet-the-author Q&A appearance via Zoom during the final hour of the…

Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) and other leaders of the Committee on Trauma provided an update on firearm injury prevention efforts at the American College of Surgeons' (ACS) annual Clinical Congress in Boston, Massachusetts. The ACS considers firearm injuries a public health issue and since 2018, when firearm deaths — including both suicides and…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) gave an oral presentation titled, "Comparing the social vulnerability index for COVID-19: Adopting a novel approach and analyzing spatial associations," on Nov. 14 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a poster titled, "Assessing COVID-19 vaccination accessibility in Clark County, Nevada," on Nov. 12 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a roundtable presentation titled, "An emerging hotspot analysis of COVID-19 in Clark County, Nevada, 2020-2023," on Nov. 14 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Priyambda Kumra, Asma Awan, Ata Laique, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), presented their poster, "A scoping review of physical activity interventions in the Latinx community," during the American Public Health Association 2023 Annual Meeting on Nov. 13, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of the Latina/o/x Population…

Professor Jeff Stempel (Law) participated in a panel as part of the Transatlantic Lectures on Insurance Law series sponsored by the European Law Institute Insurance Group. The panel was on "Fissures and Fault Lines in U.S. Insurance Law: The Impact of Dual Systems and Multiple Forums Creating Divergent Outcomes."