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. 

Rupam Mitra, Md. Sohail Akhter, Anam Fatima, Asma Awan, and Manoj Sharma (all Public Health) presented a virtual paper titled “Integrating music therapy as a complementary approach for mental health: A comprehensive review” at the International European Science Congress held in Podgorica, Montenegro.  The paper highlighted the role of music…

Manoj Sharma, Asma Awan, Sidath Kapukotuwa (all Public Health) and Amar Kanekar from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have published a chapter titled “A fourth -generation multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change” in the Handbook of Concepts in Health, Health Behavior and Environmental Health” published by Springer. This…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) conducted a featured virtual webinar titled "Overcoming the Six Impurities of the Mind (Arishadvarga or Shadripu): Integrating Vedic Philosophy, Modern Psychology, & Scientific Kundalini Energy Yoga (SKEY)" for the "Break ke Baad" group based in Livermore, California. The webinar covered the…