Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Ph.D. student Karen Lorena Figueroa Chilito coauthored an article titled, “Evaluating a novel multi-species vector control tool for humanitarian crises: the efficacy of attractive targeted sugar baits among forcibly displaced populations in Northern Nigeria,” in the journal BMC Medicine…

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored an article titled, “Areca nut-related oral cancer awareness in adults: A meta-analysis,” in the Journal of Cancer Policy, in association with researchers from Texas, Massachusetts, California, Philadelphia and Vietnam. The article surveyed the awareness among adults that areca nut products…

Barbara Lewis (Healthcare Administration and Policy) was the featured speaker at a webinar conducted by Planetree and Fidelum Health on Transforming Hospitals with Patient and Family Advisory Councils. 

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual paper titled “Online teaching for public health in program planning” at the 18th Annual International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI), 2025, held in Seville, Spain. The presentation highlighted his pedagogical approach using the multi-…

Francisco Sy (Public Health) gave a presentation titled, "Empowering Communities in Building Resiliencies to Respond to Natural Disasters in the Philippines," at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America on Oct. 17, 2025, in Houston, Texas.

Mohammad Sohail Akhter (Social and Behavioral Health) was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for presenting innovative and cutting-edge research by the Oral Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) at their annual meeting. The presentation titled, “Bibliometric analysis to assess global health research on Periodontal…

Francisco Sy (Public Health) and his co-authors from University of Nebraska, West Virginia University, University of North Dakota, University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Brown University, Tufts University, and University of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a co-presenter of 31 presentations with his students and colleagues at the 153rd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 2-5. The topics of his presentation ranged from public health workforce training in Nevada, mental health…

Francisco Sy (Public Health), Reimund Serafica and Joseph Guerrero Lopez (both Nursing) recently published a research article titled, "A Decade of Publication Trends in the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Infrastructure Network," in the Journal of Translational Science. 

Brisa Rodriquez Alcantar, Priyambda Kumra, Asma Awan, Christopher Johansen, and Manoj Sharma (all Public Health) published an article titled, “Promoting physical activity in Hispanic adults: A systematic review of interventions from 2018-2023,” in the American Journal of Health Promotion (Impact factor 2.4).  The review found that…

Reimund Serafica, Andrew Thomas Reyes (both Nursing), Francisco Sy (Public Health), and their co-authors from Veteran's Affairs Long Beach Health Care System, CA, University of Texas Health, Houston, TX, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, and University of California, Irvine, CA, received the 2024 Journal of Transcultural Nursing Best…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) and Richard M. Oxborough from the Parasitology and Vector Biology Laboratory coauthored an article titled, “Building resilience against the growing threat of arboviruses: a scoping review of Aedes vector surveillance, control strategies and insecticide resistance in Africa,” in the journal…