Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health

Guogen Shan and Carolee Dodge Francis (both Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an article in Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science titled "Exact Unconditional Tests for Dichotomous Data When Comparing Multiple Treatments With a Single Control."
Philip Danquah (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented a research topic "Racial Variations of the Injection Route of Administration among Injection Drug Users in the United States: A Comparative Trend Analysis​" at the National Technology and Social Science Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada this month. Danquah is pursuing a…
Jennifer R. Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently co-authored an article titled "Accessibility and Accommodations for Patients with Mobility Disabilities in a Large Healthcare System: How are we doing?"  The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accessibility of and accommodations for patients with mobility…
Tanviben Patel (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently was awarded the City of Las Vegas Cardiac Arrest Survivors Award on behalf of Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, honoring her tireless commitment to the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) Registry and for saving lives in the community. She was recognized during the…
Donica' Beckett (Environmental and Occupational Health); Philip Danquah, Johanna Andrews, and Melva Thompson-Robinson (all Center for Health Disparities Research), and Carolee Dodge Francis (American Indian Research and Education Center) presented a scientific poster at the 2019 National HIV Prevention Conference titled "Investigating…
Courtney Coughenour, Jennifer Pharr, Maxim Gakh, Sheila Clark, and Prescott Cheong (all Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published "A Qualitative Study on Parental and Community Stakeholder Views of the Link between Full-Day Kindergarten and Health in Southern Nevada" in the journal Children. Cheong is an '18 alumnus of…
Asma Tahir (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Joseph Jean (Master of Public Health student) recently presented their work, "Annual Variation Among Tree Pollen in Las Vegas from 2015-2018" during the 2019 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology conference Feb. 22-24 in San Fancisco.  The study was published in the Journal…
Jennifer R. Pharr, Axenya Kachen and Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article in the Journal of Community Health on "Health Disparities Among Sexual Gender Minority Women in the United States: A Population-Based Study." The purpose of the study was to understand disparities in access to…
John O. Olawepo and L.-W. Antony Chen (both Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on the "Health Benefits from Upgrading Public Buses for Cleaner Air: A Case Study of Clark County, Nevada and the United States." As the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) has been transitioning from diesel to…
Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored and published a paper, "Association of Organic Solvents and Occupational Noise on Hearing Loss and Tinnitus among Adults in the U.S., 1999–2004" in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. This study examined the association of organic…
Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an "Analysis of Self-Reported Walking for Transit in a Sprawling Urban Metropolitan Area in the Western U.S." that was published in a special issue of Sustainability, focused on urban sprawl and sustainability. The design of the Las Vegas community is so…
Melva Thompson-Robinson and Carolee Dodge Francis (Environmental and Occupational Health), and doctoral student Philip Danquah were notable participants at the 2019 HIV Next Generation Conference at UCLA's Center for HIV identification, Prevention and Treatment Services. The theme was "Addressing Disparities in HIV and Comorbidities…