Daidre Gamboa, Casey Barber, Erin Sheehy, Selam Ayele, and Shawn Gerstenberger (all Environmental and Occupational Health) published the article, "Lead-Based Paint and Other In-Home Health Hazards in Las Vegas, Nevada: Findings of the Las Vegas Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Program," in the Journal of Environmental Health.  The…

Asma Awan, Siddharth Raich, Brittany Klenczar, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Miklo Alcala (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented two papers at Nevada Public Health Association’s Annual Conference on September 13 and September 14, 2022.  The papers were titled, “A model-based community-based…

Emylia Terry (Public Health), Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), Jason Flatt, and Krystal Kittle (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented a poster on "Problem Gambling within the LGBTQIA+ Community: A Community Needs Assessment Survey Approach" at the National LGBTQ Health Conference in Chicago, Illinois, in July. Terry…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) presented on "State protection alignment index as a measure of structural stigma's impact on the mental health of sexual and gender…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) is a recipient of a 2022 Springer Nature Editorial Contributions Award for her editorial service to the Malaria Journal. Through their assessment of new submissions and rigorous management of the peer review process, Springer Nature's editors and editorial board members safeguard the…

Alireza Rezaee and Lung-Wen Antony Chen (both Environmental & Occupational Health), Ge Lin (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Mark Buttner and Max Gakh (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) published an article on "Air Quality Health Benefits of the Nevada Renewable Portfolio…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental & Occupational Health), Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental & Occupational Health), Jason Flatt and Krystal Kittle (both Social & Behavioral Health), and Emylia Terry (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Serial Mediation Analysis of the…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental & Occupational Health) is a co-author of the article, "High-throughput barcoding method for the genetic surveillance of insecticide resistance and species identification in Anopheles gambiae complex malaria vectors", in the journal Scientific Reports. Genetic barcoding of mosquitoes is a useful tool to assist…

Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), Matthew Kappel (Southern Nevada Health District), Erick B López, and Amanda Haboush-Deloye (both Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy) published a research article, "A Multistage Public Health Response to Pediatric Lead Exposure: A Case Study on Lead Tainted Turmeric in an…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Aurora Holloway (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health) published a research article titled "A novel gun law strength index and influential state gun laws for firearm homicide in the United…

Erika Marquez, Courtney Coughenour, Maxim Gakh, Tiana Tu, Pashtana Usufzy, and Shawn Gerstenberger (all Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Residential Housing Tenants' Concerns about Property Habitability and the Implementation of Habitability Laws in Southern Nevada" in the International…

Joseph Guerrero Lopez and Francisco Sy (both Environmental & Occupational Health) are co-authors of an article, "Evidence-based Practice Strategies for Faculty Professional Development in Clinical Translational Research at Institutional Development Award (IDeA) State Institutions in the Mountain West" published in the Journal of Clinical and…