Dr. Francisco Sy (Environmental and Global Health), professor, was invited as a Distinguished Speaker at the 2025 Annual Philippine American Academy of Sciences and Engineering Meeting and Symposium, held on July 19-20, 2025, at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He gave a presentation on "Mountain West Clinical and Translational…

Liliana Davalos, Brisa Rodriguez Alcantar, Marissa Martinez and Christopher Johansen (all Social and Behavioral Health) published an article titled "Socio-Cultural Correlates of Breastfeeding Behavior Among Latina Mothers and Its Implications for Child Health" in the journal Children.  This article describes a secondary analysis that…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Development of a Web-Based Tool Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Improve Adherence to Diagnostic Colonoscopy Among Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults in Colorectal Cancer Screening Program” in the journal, Annals of Epidemiology (Impact factor…

Ana Daniela González-Alvarez, Sidath Kapukotuwa, Larry Hurst, and Abena Gyawu Owusu-Ansah (all Public Health), Ying Guo (Environmental and Global Health), Jennifer Vaderlaan (Nursing), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published "Socioeconomic Disparities in Perinatal Substance Use Emergency Department Visits Before and During COVID-…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, "Understanding and predicting flossing behavior in a rural Appalachian community using the multi-theory model," In the journal Scientific Reports (Impact factor 3.9) in collaboration with coauthors from the New Orleans School of Medicine; the…

Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health); Ashish Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics); and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published a brief report titled, "Human Metapneumovirus: An Emerging Threat to Respiratory Health Globally" in the Italian journal, Advances in Medicine, Psychology and Public…

Jace Flatt and Drew Blasco (both Social and Behavioral Health) and colleagues have received a new four-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for their project, "Promoting Engagement and Clinical Trial Readiness for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Among…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) guided a doctoral scholar from Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences and coauthored an article titled, "A qualitative study to identify the determinants and strategies for the prevention of dengue fever in Iran," in the journal Scientific Reports (Impact factor 3.9). The qualitative…

Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Ji Won Yoo (Internal Medicine), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article, "Increasing trend in asthma hospitalization among cannabisdependent abusers and recreational cannabis legalizations (1998-2021)" in Annals…

Anam Fatima (Social & Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled "Nutrition Behavior Change in Pregnancy: Mapping Evidence through a  Scoping Review" in the BioSocial Health Journal. The review highlighted the effectiveness of educational behavioral change…

Asma Awan and Ana Daniela Gonzalez (both Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded Silver Level Award in the 2025 National Case Study Competition in Health Education (NCSCHE). This is one of the top competitions in the nation in this category which was held at the SOPHE 2025 Annual Conference from April 15, 2025 (on-site…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), in association with coauthors from China and Australia, published an article titled "Depressive symptoms and associated factors among middle-aged and older patients with chronic kidney disease: Gender differences based on a health ecological model" in the journal Healthcare (Impact…