Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) has been selected as the runner-up for the 2026 Delta Omega Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum for the course “HED 720: Program Planning and Grant Writing in Health Promotion,” which he modified to meet the Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH) competencies and taught in spring 2026…

Ying Guo (Environmental and Global Health) was awarded a Community Champion Certificate from the national College on Problems of Drug Dependence conference in recognition of her community-based work with the Boys Town Nevada LIFT program. The program seeks to intervene in the lives of students before they suffer mental and behavioral health…

Refat Rasul Srejon (Social and Behavioral Health) was selected as an Emerging Scholar Award recipient at the 16th International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, held September 10–11, 2026, in Guadalajara, Mexico, in partnership with the University of Guadalajara. The award recognizes a small group of emerging scholars whose work…

Asma Awan and Christina Demopoulos (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) published a book chapter titled, “Co-creation of pedagogical models in higher education: Gaps and innovations in combined models of behavioral and educational theories" in the book Research in Educational Sciences-II. The chapter…

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research on hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils to Medi-Sota, a consortium of 39 rural healthcare organizations in Minnesota.

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article, titled “Burden of non-communicable diseases and their attributable risk factors in Africa from 1990 to 2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Africa NCD collaborators in Lancet Global Health (Impact factor…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled “Decreasing prevalence in youth depressive episodes: Evidence from the 2021-2024 national survey on drug use and health” in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, along with researchers from Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky and Illinois. The study examined changes in depressive…

Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) and Darin Mains (MPH student, Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored a paper titled “Sexual Identity–Attraction Patterns and Substance Use Across Developmental Stages: Findings from the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health” in the journal Addictive Behaviors. The study assessed how sexual…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Second-hand Smoke Collaborators titled “Global, regional, and national prevalence of second-hand smoke and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study…

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.