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School of Public Health News

The School of Public Health is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of people worldwide. Our departments, programs, and research units work to provide a diverse education, practical training experience, and numerous community involvement opportunities to prepare students to become leaders and professionals in the field of public health.

Current Public Health News

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Research |

UNLV epidemiologist Brian Labus and public health alumna Devin Raman explain how disease investigators track outbreaks.

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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Campus News |

Plus: Watch the Spring 2026 Commencement recap video.

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People |

Common professors, life lessons, and support shaped one family's experience at UNLV.

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Campus News |

Through a public health class project tied to the Neon to Nature app, students are updating outdoor route information across the valley.

Public Health In The News

The Takeout

Once one of those toothsome delights catches your eye, you can ask to have it boxed up and take it home for your personal enjoyment. The question is, should you?

Indica News

For decades, the South Asian diaspora in the United States has been celebrated as an exemplary economic success story and a “model minority.” However, behind the high median incomes and professional and academic accolades lies a simmering, intensifying public health emergency.

EatingWell

Reusing clean, undamaged plastic bottles with water is generally safe, but bacteria can grow over time. Avoid refilling bottles with sweetened or perishable drinks to reduce health risks. Switching to reusable metal or glass bottles helps reduce plastic waste.

TIME

Fortunately, protecting yourself doesn’t require surrendering your backyard—or spending the summer sealed indoors. It does require avoiding some surprisingly common mistakes.

Indica News

Currently, there are more than 10 states across the United States that are actively under flood watches, warnings, or facing severe monsoon-related problems.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

UNLV study uses 18 private yards to track how mosquitoes survive, spread disease in Clark County

Public Health Experts

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Recent Public Health Accomplishments

UNLV School of Public Health staff and faculty, Kaelia Lynn Saniatan, Alexandria Evans, Timothy Grigsby, Erika Marquez and Gabriela Buccini along with faculty from the UNLV School of Nursing, Clariana Vitoria Ramos de Oliveira authored, "Qualitative analysis of clinical and community perinatal providers' perceived barriers to equitable care for…
Rupam Mitra (Social and Behavioral Health), Jayed Hossain (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Mahsa Pashaeimeykola (Social and Behavioral Health), Ermias Turuse (Environmental and Global Health), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) at School of Public Health recently published a paper, "Sociodemographic Disparities in Alcohol-…
Antonious Anis, Juliann Shih, Kavita Batra, Irene Huang, and Mutsumi J. Kioka (all Medicine), together with Vidhani Goel (Public Health), published “Poor agreement between bioreactance and echocardiography during passive leg raising in patients with shock” in Scientific Reports, a Nature Portfolio journal. This investigator-initiated prospective…
Faculty from the kinesiology and nutrition sciences department (James Navalta, Dustin Davis) and the Center for Health Disparities Research, department of social and behavioral health (Jason Flatt) along with collaborators (Joshua D. Wooldridge - Moravian University, Juliet Moore - University of Delaware, Jafra Thomas - …
Barbara Lewis (Public Health) shared her research on "Strengthening Patient and Family Advisory Councils for Measurable Results" on an NRC Health webcast. 
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 LDL Cholesterol Collaborators, coauthored an article titled “Global Burden of Elevated LDL-C: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” in JAMA (Impact factor 65.4). The study found that in 2023, elevated low-density…