Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Feasibility and Acceptability of Menstrual Cups for Addressing Period Poverty in Rural India: A Pilot Study in Spiti Valley” along with coauthors from the University of Utah in the journal Advances in Medicine, Psychology and Public Health (AMPPH). In Spiti Valley,…
Nathaniel LaBarre (Medicine), Michael Karo (Medicine), Vidhani Goel (Public Health and Medicine), Roberto Sagaribay, Vinnesa Narvaez (Nursing), Ami Shah (Medicine), Aditi Singh (Medicine), Fatehali Peera (Medicine), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored the study, “Incidence, Prevalence, and Risk Factors of Dog Bites in Pediatric…
Barbara Lewis (Public Health) was appointed for a one-year term to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Patient and Family Advisory Council. The ABMS mission is to improve healthcare through high standards for physician board certification.
Rupam Mitra, Md. Sohail Akhter, Anam Fatima, Asma Awan, and Manoj Sharma (all Public Health) presented a virtual paper titled “Integrating music therapy as a complementary approach for mental health: A comprehensive review” at the International European Science Congress held in Podgorica, Montenegro. The paper highlighted the role of music…
Manoj Sharma, Asma Awan, Sidath Kapukotuwa (all Public Health) and Amar Kanekar from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have published a chapter titled “A fourth -generation multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change” in the Handbook of Concepts in Health, Health Behavior and Environmental Health” published by Springer. This…
Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) conducted a featured virtual webinar titled "Overcoming the Six Impurities of the Mind (Arishadvarga or Shadripu): Integrating Vedic Philosophy, Modern Psychology, & Scientific Kundalini Energy Yoga (SKEY)" for the "Break ke Baad" group based in Livermore, California. The webinar covered the…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently presented their work "Profiles of stress causes and management strategies in Filipinos" as a podium presentation at the International Nursing and Health Care Symposium held on August 8, 2026. This presentation focused on the implications of these profiles in addressing stress-related…
Ph.D. students Refat Srejon and Ana Gonzalez-Alvarez (Social and Behavioral Health) and Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health), coauthored a paper titled, “Theory-based smoking cessation interventions for young adults: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials,” in the journal Addictive Behaviors. The study examined behavioral…
Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 HIV Collaborators, coauthored an article titled “Global, regional, and national burden of HIV/AIDS, 1990–2023, with the estimated burden attributable to intimate partner violence and forecasted impacts of funding cuts through 2030: Results from the Global…
Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Human Resources for Health Collaborators, coauthored an article titled “Measuring the composition and availability of human resources for health by sex in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023, and workforce gaps for universal health coverage: A systematic…
Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Rochelle Hines (Psychology), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a $2,189,956 National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant, the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (GRISE), for 2026-31. The…
Pearl Kim, Yonsu Kim, and Jay Shen (all Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Ji Yoo (Medicine) recently co-authored a paper with the Northern Arizona University researcher, "Inpatient Palliative Care for Pediatric Neurologic and Neuromuscular Illnesses in the U.S. - A National Perspective," in Children.