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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.

Melanie and Lusayla Romancik
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

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

Daily Mail

The source of America's biggest Cyclospora outbreak in years remains a mystery – but experts say there is one alarming way the parasite could, in theory, spread.

PBS

UNLV researchers are working with former football players and professional fighters to track head injuries and brain damage. 

KRXI-TV

Federal health officials are investigating a multistate Cyclospora outbreak linked to recalled iceberg lettuce. Brian Labus, infectious disease expert and associate professor at UNLV's School of Public Health, joined ARC Reno Tuesday morning to explain what consumers should know.

Public Health Experts

A mental health expert with particular interest in child well-being.
An expert on the intersection of sports, physical activity, and health.
An expert on issues regarding healthcare policy and strategic management.
An expert on child maltreatment and fostering healthy family environments.
An expert in pediatric asthma, chronic disease trends, complex weighted survey data, and clinical programming
An expert on health disparities and LGBTQ aging adults with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Recent Public Health Accomplishments

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…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Stillbirth Collaborators, coauthored an article titled “Stillbirths at 22- and 28-weeks’ gestation or longer for the states in India: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” in the journal…
Sharon Jalene, Jason Ciccotelli, Christian Ison, Jaime Carbajal, Andrew Hooyman (all Integrated Health Sciences) and Lauren Gatto (Student Success) were published in the PLOS One research journal for their paper titled, "Supporting recovery: Intersections of health, belonging, and help seeking after a campus mass casualty event."
Kavita Batra (Medicine), in collaboration with Jagdish Khubchandani (New Mexico State University), Ravi Batra (Public Health), and Syed Aman Ali (Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Pakistan) published "Psychiatric Safety of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Across Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity: An Integrative Review" in Diabetology. The review synthesizes…