Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Megan R. Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Brian Woods (Center for Business and Economic Research) composed an expert panel for a special collaborative episode of Vegas PBS's Nevada Week and KNPR's State of Nevada that looked back at the COVID-19…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article as a senior collaborator in the GBD 2021 Adolescent BMI Collaborators Group titled, “Global, regional, and national prevalence of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: A forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article as a senior collaborator in the GBD 2021 Adult BMI Collaborators Group titled, “Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: A forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” in The…
Ph.D. student Laurencia Bonsu (Global and Environmental Health) has received the UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees Fellowship. The fellowship is granted over four semesters to doctoral students in the final two years of their program. Bonsu’s research focuses on lead contamination in water sources caused by illegal mining in Ghana. During her…
Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Social and Behavioral Health), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Binita Adhikari (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled “Factors Associated with Hospital Length of Stay and Intensive Care Utilization Among Pediatric COVID-19 Patients…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Advancing Telemedicine Adoption: Insights from Health Behavior Models with a Focus on the Multi-Theory Model,” in the Journal of Public Health in the Deep South with coauthors from Louisiana State University, Florida State University, Midwestern…
Alireza Rezaee and Asma Tahir (both Environmental and Occupational Health) from the UNLV Pollen Lab presented a poster titled, “Annual Comparison Of Ragweed Pollen Concentrations In Las Vegas And Jean From 2019-2023,” at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology conference in San Diego, California, on March 2, 2025.
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Gestational PBDE concentrations and executive function in adolescents with self- and caregiver-report: The HOME study," in the journal Environmental Research, along with researchers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island, Georgia and Canada. The paper studied the adverse…
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), Chih-Hsiang Ho (Mathematical Sciences), Daria J. Kuss (Nottingham Trent University), and Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently published an article, “The temporal stability of problematic gaming and gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis,” in the journal Addictive Behaviors Reports…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) published a chapter “Underused Alternative Techniques for Mosquito Control“ in the book “Practical Control of Mosquitoes Disease Vectors,” along with Robert Jones from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Amanda C. Saragosa (first year PhD student), Gabriela Buccini, Sheniz Moonie, Christopher Johansen (all Public Health), and Alyssa Crittenden (Graduate College) co-authored a newly published article, "Factors associated with caregiver responsive and non-responsive feeding styles in Clark County, Nevada," in the Public Health Nutrition…
Ph.D. student Amruta Godbole (Public Health) presented her research on “Associations between neonicotinoids and inflammation in US adults using hematological indices: NHANES 2015-2016" at the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2025 Mid-Year Meeting from Feb. 10-14, 2025.