Kavita Batra (Medicine), Jagdish Khubchandani, and Refat R. Serajon (Public Health) co-authored an article, “COVID-19 Vaccination Refusal Among Cancer Survivors in the United States: A Scoping Review,” published in COVID. The review found that reported COVID-19 vaccination refusal among U.S. cancer survivors varied widely (7.3%–39.0%),…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored an article, “Global, regional, and national burden of HIV/AIDS, 1990–2023, with the estimated burden attributable to intimate partner violence and forecasted impacts of funding cuts through 2030: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” published in The Lancet HIV. The study highlights…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored an article, “Measuring the composition and availability of human resources for health by sex in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023, and workforce gaps for universal health coverage: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” published in The Lancet Public Health. The…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored a study, “Global and regional progress towards reduced burden of oral conditions between 2019 and 2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” published in The Lancet Public Health. The study found that while age-standardized prevalence of oral conditions declined…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) was invited to become a charter member of the Board of Editors of a new journal, Vedic Science Journal (India). Also, for the last twenty years, he has been on he Board of Editors of Ganit Bharati, Bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics.

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) was appointed for a one-year term to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Patient and Family Advisory Council. The ABMS mission is to improve healthcare through high standards for physician board certification. 

Rupam Mitra, Md. Sohail Akhter, Anam Fatima, Asma Awan, and Manoj Sharma (all Public Health) presented a virtual paper titled “Integrating music therapy as a complementary approach for mental health: A comprehensive review” at the International European Science Congress held in Podgorica, Montenegro.  The paper highlighted the role of music…

Ashby Boland, Lauren Reyes, and Nicole Short (all Psychology), along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and SAFE Austin, have published a manuscript titled “Temporal associations between nightmares and PTSD symptoms in the acute post-sexual assault period: An ecological momentary assessment…

April Ursula Fox (Education) proposed and moderated the student-centered panel What is the Message? Punk Expressions in School and Community at PunkCon 2026. The roundtable brought together UNLV students to explore what a punk way of thinking can mean within school and community spaces, with particular attention to questioning authority…