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Current Public Health News
The longtime administrator is bringing his experience in student success to building the culture for faculty and staff engagement.
A look at some of the most eye-grabbing headlines featuring UNLV faculty, staff, and students.
This operations specialist at the School of Medicine is powered by main-character energy and a lot of sticky notes.
UNLV community outreach programs offer practical learning opportunities for students while leveraging our resources to address societal needs.
A collection of the top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.
With a decade of experience in community health and policy, Emylia Terry brings her commitment to health equity back to UNLV as an assistant professor.
Public Health In The News
In December 2025, Nevada was awarded nearly $180 million in federal funds through the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, a federal grant program established by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
In 2024, the dating app Feeld and a fellow from the Kinsey Institute released The State of Dating Report, a study that surveyed more than 3,000 Feeld members between the ages of 18-75 from 71 countries. The findings were striking: Nearly half of Gen Z respondents surveyed were single compared to one-fifth of older generations. Thirty-seven percent of Gen Zers reported not having any sex in the last month—matching the sexual frequency of surveyed Boomers—and they were twice as likely to say they longed for monogamy than older generations. Feeld’s reputation as a kink and hookup app makes these discoveries even more surprising.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is characterized by mood variations with a change in season, especially during the winter months, with reduced daylight.
CareSource, the nonprofit overseeing Nevada’s current Medicaid managed care contract, is donating $300,000 to improve health outcomes across the state. The funding will support efforts to improve maternal and child health, increase immunization awareness, and address social determinants of health — all priorities identified in last year’s Southern Nevada Health District Community Health Assessment. Half of the funding will go to UNLV’s School of Public Health and the Nevada Community Health Coalition for research. The remaining funds will be distributed to up to six Nevada-based nonprofits and research teams.
Over the past couple of years, the popularity of GLP-1 receptor agonists, which are a class of typically injectable medications that simulate the glucagon-like peptide-1 hormone, to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, has gained enormous popularity.
After we first told you about a raid at a home in east Las Vegas, conducted by local and federal authorities, questions have been swirling.
Even as new details emerged regarding the biological materials discovered and the number of samples recovered, locals have continued to echo similar questions.
