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…

Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and non-suicidal self-injury associated with opioid misuse among adolescents and young adults in the USA: A scoping…

Barbara Lewis (Healthcare Administration and Policy) conducted a workshop at NRC Hub 25 in Orlando titled From Insight to Publication: Strategies to Share Your Success in Patient and Workforce Experience, based on her years of experience as a journalist and more recently writing peer-reviewed articles. 

Joo-Hyun Park, Jung Yong Hong, and Jay Shen (all from Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published "Prediabetes Remission and the Subsequent Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: A Nationwide Cohort Study" in American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Park and Hong were visiting scholars at School of Public Health when the study was conducted.…

Asma Awan, Md. Sohail Akhter, Sharmistha Roy, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented a poster titled, "Evaluation of school-based mental health interventions: A systematic review on global perspectives of mixed methods interventions” at the 99th Annual School Health Conference of American School Health Association, held on…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine)  coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Diseases 2023 Disease and Injury Risk Factor Collaborators titled, “Burden of 375 diseases and injuries, risk-attributable burden of 88 risk factors, and healthy life expectancy in 204…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine)  coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Diseases 2023 Causes of Death Collaborators titled, “Global burden of 292 causes of death in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Diseases 2023 Demographic Collaborators titled, “Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–…