Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published a paper, "Economic development, intergenerational mobility, and health in South Korea,” in Economic and Human Biology. This study found a strong association between upward mobility and happiness among the aged 40–49, who had the largest proportion of upwardly mobile individuals and spent…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a paper titled, "Beyond Being Insured: Insurance Coverage Denial as a Major Barrier to Accessing Care During Pregnancy and Postpartum" in the journal Clinical Nursing Research. This study investigates the association between insurance coverage denial and delays in care during pregnancy and…

Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented his work titled, "Can you see the change? Change Point Detection using Statistical Lineups" during the 2023 Symposium of Data Science and Statistics on May 23-26 in St. Louis, Missouri. The study involves demonstrating how human participants can visually perceive translational mean change…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with Ravi Batra, and Manoj Sharma (both Public Health) published a book chapter titled "Social Media and Infodemiology: Use of Social Media Monitoring in Emergency Preparedness" in the book Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health. This chapter aims to elucidate the “misinformation” aspect of the…

Barbara Lewis (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) published the article "Analysis of CEPH-accredited online public health doctoral programs and MPH degree holder demand" in the journal Frontiers in Public Health. Lewis is a doctoral student. The number of doctoral programs to train…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) have co-edited a book titled, “Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health,” published by Elsevier (ISBN: 9780323956307). The book presents a current and extensive review of social media and its role in public health and health care. The book is…

Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Malcolm Ahlo (Southern Nevada Health District), Kacie Washburn (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article titled, "…

Brian Labus and Casey Barber (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a talk titled, "Everybody poops: the basics of wastewater surveillance and how it can provide an unbiased insight into infectious disease transmission in the community," during the 2023 Nevada Environmental Health Association & Nevada Food Safety Task Force Joint…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with opioid addiction helping behaviour in tri-state Appalachian counties: Application of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model–cross-sectional analysis,” in the journal, BMJ Open (Impact Factor: 3.007), in…

Arpita Basu, Ph.D., MPH, RD/LD (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Lung-Chang Chien, Ph.D., (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Leigh Ann Richardson (Public Health), along with colleagues recently published, "Longitudinal associations of healthy dietary pattern scores with coronary artery calcification and pericardial adiposity in US adults…

Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a study titled, "Incomplete and Confounded Block Designs in Visual Inference Experiments," during the 2023 International Conference on Design of Experiments on May 8-11 in Memphis, Tennessee. The study explores the use of confounded and balanced incomplete block designs in making visual…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article entitled, “Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics in type 1 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of clinical trials,” in the journal, Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews (Impact Factor: 8.128) in association with colleagues from Ishafan…