The UNLV School of Public Health published the latest episode of its podcast, "So, You Want to Change the World?" Hosted by Dean Shawn Gerstenberger, this month's guests were Julie Murray and Janna Velasco from Hope Means Nevada, an organization that is working locally to engage young people around mental health and eliminating teen suicide.…

Amruta Godbole (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented her research titled "Associations of Prenatal and Childhood polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) with Kidney Function at Age 12" at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Nevada Chapter of the American Statistical Association.

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine), in the most prestigious Elsevier & Stanford database that ranks the top 2% of global scientists across 176 subfields, has been ranked within public health (secondary field: general and internal medicine) as 400th (career) & 119th (single year: 2025) out of 82,273 top 2% public health…

Graduate student Farhana Khandoker (Public Health), along with co-author Timothy Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), recently published a research article titled “Factors Associated with High Sugary Drink Consumption Among College Students in Nevada” in the Nevada Journal of Public Health, Volume 23 (2026). The study used data collected from…

Asma Awan (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) published a policy perspective article with the title, “Federal Policy and the Emerging U.S. Public Health Workforce: Implications for Students and Early-Career Professionals” in the journal Advances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health. This policy…

Lung-Wen "Antony" Chen's (Environmental and Global Health) UNLV School of Public Health Urban Air Quality Lab has been working with community members to assess the impact of urban greening initiatives on heat and air pollution exposure. The lab has established 6 residential monitoring sites in neighborhoods with substantial tree-planting…

Theresa T. Roeher (Ph.D. graduate), Patricia Cruz, Mark Buttner, Asma Tahir (all Environmental and Global Health)  and Steven Medley (The George Washington University) coauthored a paper titled “Comparison of microscopy and quantitative real-time PCR for the enumeration of total airborne fungi in Las Vegas, Nevada” in the Journal of…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 Mental Disorder Collaborators, coauthored the article, “Burden of 10 mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: A Global Burden of Disease Study” in the journal Med (Impact factor 13.3). The study found that…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 Chewing Tobacco Collaborators, coauthored the article, "Global, regional, and national burden of exposure to chewing tobacco, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023" in The Lancet Global Health (Impact factor 22.5). The…

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…