Asma Awan, Christina Demopoulos (both Dental), Anam Fatima, Ana Gonzalez (both Social and Behavioral Health), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine), presented a poster at APHA 2026 Annual Meeting and Expo, held on Nov. 1-4, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas. The poster titled "Theory-Based Behavioral Interventions to Improve…

Asma Awan, Christina Demopoulos (both Dental), Rupam Mitra, Ana Gonzalez (both Social and Behavioral Health), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine), presented a poster at APHA 2026 Annual Meeting and Expo, held on November 1-4, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas. The poster titled " Determinants Influencing Flossing Behavior…

Asma Awan (Dental), Mahsa Pashaeieykola (Social and Behavioral Health), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), presented a poster at APHA 2026 Annual Meeting and Expo, held on November 1-4, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas. The poster titled "Yoga interventions for autism spectrum disorder in children: A systematic review…

Asma Awan, MacKenzie Smith, Jyoti Mago, Christina Demopoulos (all Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine), presented a poster at APHA 2026 Annual Meeting and Expo, held on Nov. 1-4, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas. The poster titled "Therapeutic Radiotherapy and Periodontal Disease: A Scoping Review of Clinical…

Vidhani S. Goel (Public Health), alongside co-authors Joshua Khorsandi, Nataliyah Tahir, Kavita Batra (all Medicine), and Sheila Janofsky (Public Health), presented a poster that was ranked among the top five in the Delta Omega Student Poster Session at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2026 Annual Meeting and Expo in San Antonio,…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper at the 19th International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI 2026) held in Seville, Spain, titled "Developing competencies for program planning and grant writing among master of public health (MPH) scholars at a Southwestern US University."  The full-…

Amruta Godbole (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from the School of Public Health presented her research, "Prenatal organophosphate esters (OPEs) and kidney function markers in adolescents at age 12 years" at the Emerging Scholars Theater during the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Andrea Lopez and Dr. Lung-Chang “JoJo” Chien (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a poster at the 2026 American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting, titled “Beyond Equal Weighting: Enhancing the Predictive Capability of Socioeconomic Indices”. The Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) is widely used because it captures important…

Dr. Lung-Chang "JoJo" Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) served as a session moderator at the 2026 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting, moderating the session titled "General topics in applied public health statistics (oral)." In this role, Chien facilitated the session's academic presentations and discussions,…

Vikash Patel (Social and Behavioral Health) received the 2026 APHA Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health Practices Section Outstanding Student Poster Award for the presentation “Efficacy of yoga interventions as complementary therapy in the pediatric oncology population: A scoping review of the literature, prepared in co-authorship…

Farhana Khandoker (Social and Behavioral Health) received the 2026 APHA Student Assembly Outstanding Student Abstract Award for an oral presentation, “Applying the multi-theory model of health behavior change to examine depression among adults with type 2 diabetes,” prepared in co-authorship with Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) at…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) co-presented 28 abstracts at the American Public Health Association's 154th Annual Meeting and Expo in San Antonio, Texas. The topics included digital interventions for autism spectrum disorder, interventions for mindfulness, effects of ashwagandha on depression, physical activity predictors,…