Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, “Global, regional and national burden of ischemic heart disease attributable to suboptimal diet, 1990–2023: A Global Burden of Disease study,” in collaboration with GBD 2023 IHD and Dietary Risk Factor Collaborators in the…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Application of the multi-theory model to determine predictors of initiating and sustaining stress management behaviors in undergraduate college students,” in the Journal of Public Health in the Deep South in collaboration with coauthors from the…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, “Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, its risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” in the journal,The Lancet Neurology (impact factor: 45.5).…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) reached the milestone of having published 500 peer-reviewed journal articles. His first peer-reviewed research article was published in 1994, based on his thesis. This gives him an average of publishing 15 articles per year in his research career. However, before 1994, he had a career…

Farhana Khandoker and Manoj Sharma (both Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled “Applying the multi-theory model of health behavior change to examine depression among adults with type 2 diabetes,” in the journal Healthcare (Impact factor 2.7). The article reified the framework of Sharma’s multi-theory model (MTM) of health…

Farhana Khandoker (Public Health) published “Applying the Multi-Theory Model of Health Behavior Change to Examine Depression Among U.S. Adults with Diagnosed Diabetes,” a theory-driven, cross-sectional study analyzing nationally representative 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data. Guided by the Multi-Theory Model of Health…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Corporate Governance and Workplace Mental Health Practices: The Mediating Role of Structured Occupational Safety and Health Engagement," which was published in Safety and Health at Work. The study conducted a serial mediation analysis to evaluate whether occupational safety and health…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual oral paper titled, “The genesis of Perfection Quotient (PQ) in health promotion research,” at the 4th International Congress on Behavioral & Social Science Research (ICBSSR 2026) held in Rome, Italy. Perfection Quotient is a novel behavioral model developed by…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Association of age at pancreatic cancer diagnosis with smoking and drinking: A hospital-based and meta-analysis study," which was published in Advances in Digestive Medicine. The study conducted two analyses: First, a systematic review used meta-analysis to examine the association…

Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Roy (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Multilevel mental health determinants among college students: A social ecological scoping review,” in the journal, Mental Health & Prevention (Impact factor…

Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ji Won Yoo (Internal Medicine), Chris Cochran (Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article "Dynamic associations of neighborhood social and physical environment with ED visits for asthma: A spatial change score analysis" in Journal…

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Long-term temperature exposure and depression incidence in the Nurses’ Health Study II, a U.S.-based prospective cohort,” in the journal Environment International, in association with researchers from Harvard, University of California and OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.…