Dr. Francisco Sy (Environmental and Global Health), professor, was invited as a Distinguished Speaker at the 2025 Annual Philippine American Academy of Sciences and Engineering Meeting and Symposium, held on July 19-20, 2025, at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He gave a presentation on "Mountain West Clinical and Translational…

Ana Daniela González-Alvarez, Sidath Kapukotuwa, Larry Hurst, and Abena Gyawu Owusu-Ansah (all Public Health), Ying Guo (Environmental and Global Health), Jennifer Vaderlaan (Nursing), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published "Socioeconomic Disparities in Perinatal Substance Use Emergency Department Visits Before and During COVID-…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Adverse childhood experiences and college student mental well-being: The role of coping strategies and the developmental timing of adversity,” in the journal Adversity and Resilience Science, along with researchers from California. The paper assesses the impact of adverse…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) and Richard M. Oxborough from the Parasitology and Vector Biology Laboratory coauthored an article titled “Novel insecticide resistance mutations associated with variable PBO synergy in Anopheles gambiae s.l. from the Democratic Republic of Congo” in the journal Scientific Reports, in association…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) and Bertille Assoumou (Medicine) coauthored a paper titled, “Cannabis use among pregnant and non-pregnant women of childbearing age: Findings from the 2021-2023 National Survey of Drug Use and Health,” in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, along with researchers from UNR and Texas. The paper…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored an article titled “Enhancing protection against vector-borne diseases in forcibly displaced communities: evaluating the efficacy of spatial repellents for cutaneous leishmaniasis control in North-East Syria” in the journal BMC Medicine, in association with researchers from the United…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Demographic correlates associated with blackout rage gallon (BORG) drinking knowledge and participation among college students,” in the journal Substance Use and Misuse, along with researchers from California State University and Texas State University. The paper examined…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, “A motivational framework to connect traditional feminine gender roles to alcohol use and consequences among Latina young adults in the United States," in the Journal of Latinx Psychology, along with Perrotte, J. K., Meca, A., Piña-Watson, B., Ham, L., Cano, M. Á., Martin, J…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), Lung-Chang Chien, Chad Cross, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published an article on "Towards optimization of community vulnerability indices for COVID-19 prevalence" in the journal BMC Public Health. In this study the team established a practical approach to…

Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Social and Behavioral Health), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Binita Adhikari (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled “Factors Associated with Hospital Length of Stay and Intensive Care Utilization Among Pediatric COVID-19 Patients…

Alireza Rezaee and Asma Tahir (both Environmental and Occupational Health) from the UNLV Pollen Lab presented a poster titled, “Annual Comparison Of Ragweed Pollen Concentrations In Las Vegas And Jean From 2019-2023,” at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology conference in San Diego, California, on March 2, 2025.

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) published a chapter “Underused Alternative Techniques for Mosquito Control“ in the book “Practical Control of Mosquitoes Disease Vectors,” along with Robert Jones from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.