Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) was awarded a $40,000 grant funded by the Research Centers Collaborative Network and American Federation for Aging Research as part of the Inter-National Institute on Aging Center Pilot Proposal on Sex and Gender Differences in Aging. The project, "The CoGenT3 Study: Cognition and Gender Trends…

Paula Frew (Environmental and Occupational Health) has been awarded an eight-month, $80,000 federal grant through the CDC and UNR. The goal of the "Getting to Zero: Ending the HIV Epidemic" project is to provide a composite picture of factors influential to HIV care continuum behaviors, HIV prevention and treatment outcomes, and related decision-…

Karen E. Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "The Association Between Etiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Race‐Ethnicity in Florida" in the journal Liver International.  The study found that HCC etiology is associated with specific race/ethnicity. While HCV-related HCC rates are…

Ann M. Vuong (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently co-authored a study on "Organophosphate Esters in a Cohort of Pregnant Women: Variability and Predictors of Exposure" that appears in the journal Environmental Research. This study highlights the need to collect multiple urine samples during pregnancy to define exposure patterns…

Kavita Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently was selected to receive the inaugural UNLV Graduate College Finishing Fellowship for the spring 2020 semester. Batra is currently a doctoral student at the School of Public Health.

Karen E. Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently co-wrote and published a chapter on "Disaggregated Hispanic Groups and Cancer: Importance, Methodology, and Current Knowledge" in the book Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos.  The chapter summarizes the current knowledge on cancer in Hispanics, with a focus on the…

Eddy Virgena, Niema Beckford, and Sanae El Ibrahimi (all Environmental and Occupational Health, published two abstracts and presented two posters last month that investigated trends and disparities in suicide among American youth and older adults. They are: "Suicide Trends and Disparities Among Older Adults in the United States, 1999-2017,"…

Sheniz Moonie, Brian Labus (both Environmental and Occupational Health), and Dr. Rebecca Scherr (Medicine), along with Julia Anderson, '19 PhD Public Health, and former faculty member Mary Beth Hogan (now of Marshall University) recently published an article on "Chronic Inflammatory Disease Cost: The Impact of Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Nevada"…

Markie Twist (Environmental and Occupational Health) was invited to be a part of the Pink Therapy Panel at the World Association for Sexual Health annual congress in Mexico City in October. Twist presented on "The Gender, Sexual, Erotic, and Relational Diversity Matrix: Assessing Intersectional Queerness."

Philip Danquah, Donica' Beckett, Johanna Andrews, and Melva Thompson-Robinson (all Center for Health Disparities Research and department of environmental and occupational health) and Carolee Dodge Francis (American Indian Research and Education Center and department of environmental and occupational health) made presentations at the American…

Sheniz Moonie and Brian Labus (both Environmental and Occupational Health), along with Julia Anderson, '19 PhD Public Health, and former UNLV faculty member Mary Beth Hogan (now of Marshall University), published an article, "A Description of Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) in the Southwestern State of Nevada" in the journal Postgraduate…

Paula M. Frew (Environmental and Occupational Health) has had her research published in Vaccine. The article is "MomsTalkShots: An Individually Tailored Educational Application for Maternal and Infant Vaccines."