Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), along with colleagues, presented a symposium paper on "Indirect effects of adverse childhood experiences on self-reported substance use problems through mental illness among sexual and gender diverse individuals" at the 2022 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies annual meeting in Atlanta, GA…

Jennifer Rennels (Psychology) published "Recommendations for Investigating the Cross-Category Effect Among Hispanic and Latino Populations" in Perspectives on Psychological Science. Individuals who are Hispanic or Latino make up a substantial portion of the U.S. and world population, yet are vastly underrepresented as both…

Dr. Marc J. Kahn, MD, MBA, the dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine and vice president for Health Affairs, recently published an editorial in the Las Vegas Review Journal with Jesus Jara, the superintendent of the Clark County School District, articulating the important linkage between education and health.

Monica R. Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Ayo Aborishade (Education) co-authored a recently published (online) article titled, "Using technology to coach culturally and linguistically diverse families in the behavior intervention plan process: Embedding funds of knowledge," in a special issue of the Journal of…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) was recently interviewed by 8 News Now (KLAS-TV) for a news story about rising interest rates in the Las Vegas housing market.

Jennifer Pharr (EOH), Lung-Chang Chien (EAB), Max Gakh (EOH), Jason Flatt (SBH), Krystal Kittle (SBH), and Emylia Terry (EOH) from the School of Public Health recently published, "Moderating Effect of Community and Individual Resilience on Structural Stigma and Suicidal Ideation among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults in the United…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Gestational exposure to organophosphate esters and infant anthropometric measures in the first 4 weeks after birth" in the journal Science of the Total Environment.  Few studies have examined whether gestational exposure to organophosphate esters (OPEs), widely used…

Anita Chatterjee, Laurencia Bonsu, and Sidath Kapukotuwa (all Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a grant of $3,000 each for their proposal titled, “A phenomenological qualitative study based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change to identify factors and ways to design interventions for quitting gambling among older…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article titled, “Mother-daughter’s relationship with menstrual hygiene and premenstrual symptoms in Iranian teenage girls,” in the Journal of Education and Community Health with authors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The article highlights the crucial role of mothers to buffer…