Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health, Ashis K. Biwas (Management Information System), and Manoj Sharma (Public Health, Internal Medicine) published an article titled “Sociodemographic, behavioral, health, and health care access factors associated with frequent mental distress among non-Hispanic multiracial U.S. adults: A 2023 BRFSS with…

Brooke Conway-Kleven (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled “Neurobehavioral dysregulation, depressive symptoms, and cognition in former American football players” in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, along with researchers from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health,…

Darin Mains (Medicine), project director of the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, presented “2024 Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Report” at the 2026 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit in Reno, Nevada on October 14th. Co-authored with Deborah Kuhls, Kavita Batra, Setareh Zarei, and Grace Gonzalez Caballero (all Medicine);…

Asma Awan (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) presented a talk titled, “From Classroom to Community: Experiential Learning as an Advocacy and Workforce Pipeline Strategy” at the 2026 SOPHE Advocacy Summit, held in Washington DC, from October 17-19, 2026. The 30-minute talk presented the results of a mixed-…

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…