Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health), and School of Public Health graduate student Brianna Rivera presented their research, "Assessing the Healthcare Burden of Parasites: An Analysis of Hospital Discharge Records for Characterizing Patients and Analyzing Trends in Human Cestode Cases in…

Jason Flatt (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Subjective cognitive decline higher among sexual and gender minorities in the United States, 2015-2018" in the journal, Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions.  Subjective cognitive decline represents self-reported…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) has been awarded a  two-year grant of $700,000 as principal investigator for the process evaluation of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public health disparities grant to the state of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. The process evaluation will entail…

Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) published "Subjective cognitive decline higher among sexual and gender minorities in the United States, 2015–2018,"  in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions that found that LGBTQ+ people or sexual and gender minorities…

Timothy J. Grigsby (Environmental & Occupational Health) co-published an article on "The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Substance Use Trajectories in a Longitudinal Hispanic Cohort from Adolescence through Emerging Adulthood" in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect. This study examined the role of adverse childhood experiences in…

Manoj Sharma, Jennifer Pharr, Courtney Coughenour (all Environmental & Occupational Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching & Learning), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), along with Asma Awan (Purdue University), and Hannah Catalano (University of North Carolina Wilmington), published an article “Using the Multi…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) has published the fourth edition of his popular book, Theoretical Foundations of Health Education and Health Promotion, from the publishing house, Jones and Bartlett Learning. The book is endorsed by SHAPE America, the Society of Health and Physical Educators as a recommended resource. It is…

Amanda Haboush-Deloye, Helena Berlin (both Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy), Erika Marquez (Environmental & Occupational Health), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article on "Obesity in Early Childhood: Examining the Relationship among Demographic, Behavioral, Nutritional, and…

Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Development in Brazil: An Analysis of Children under 2 Years of Age," in the Public Health and Nutrition Journal. This study found that household food insecurity was strongly associated with the…

Jason Flatt and Krystal Kittle (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored an article, "Recommendations for Advancing Research with Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B." The article provides an overview of SGM aging research disseminated in the journal, limitations, and…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored the article "Factors affecting substance use relapse among Iranian addicts" with colleagues from Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. The article identifies several factors responsible for relapse in substance use and underscores the need for educational and policy interventions…

Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a first-author of the newly published "Socio-demographic inequities in nurturing care for early childhood development across Brazilian municipalities" in the Maternal and Child Nutrition journal. Providing an enabling nurturing care environment for early childhood…