Casey Barber, Lung-Chang Chien, Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Edwin Oh (School of Medicine and the College of Sciences), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), and colleagues published an article on "Application of joinpoint regression to SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA" in…

Erika Marquez (Environmental and Global Health) talked to Dean Shawn Gerstenberger (Public Health) for the latest episode of the "So, You Want to Change the World?" podcast. The episode, "The 'We' in Public Health," touched on her path into public health, work to prevent childhood lead poisoning in Nevada, and the importance of community…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Geographical distribution disparities and prediction of health satisfaction among middle-aged and elderly adults in China: An analysis based on national data” in the journal, Annals of Epidemiology (Impact factor 3.3) in collaboration with coauthors…

Taylor Thompson (Public Health) was honored with the Rebel With A Cause award, which is given to employees whose work furthers the mission, goals and values of UNLV. Her nominators wrote that Taylor’s dedication and commitment to advancing the mission of the School of Public Health often finds her working late hours and even weekends to promote…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), Kara Radzak (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health and Department of Internal Medicine), published a paper titled, "A Theory-Based Approach to Explain the Correlates of Safe Physical Activity in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals," in the Journal of Health and…

Miguel Fudolig and Pamela Pioquinto (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently published an article titled  "Association between acculturation, muscle dysmorphia symptomatology, and anabolic-androgenic steroid use ideation in Filipino American male university students: A pilot study" in the journal Performance Enhancement and Health. Their…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Beyond traditional training: a comprehensive CIPP evaluation of medical internships: assessing program design, implementation, and clinical competency outcomes” in the journal, BMC Medical Education (Impact factor 2.7) in collaboration with coauthors…

Sidath Kapukotuwa, Manoj Sharma, Christopher Johansen (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article titled, "Testing the efficacy of RESPONSIBLEPLAY©: A multi-theory model (MTM)-based intervention protocol for promoting responsible gambling among college students," in the International Journal of…

Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article with colleagues from Cal Poly and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln titled "Can You See The Change? Visual Perception in Change Point Analysis" in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Their research tests the ability of humans to detect changes in means for…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Epigenetic signatures of maternal-fetal health: insights from cord blood and placenta," in the journal Epigenetics, along with researchers from Rhode Island, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The paper examined maternal-fetal placental health when relying on…

Srishti Awasthi, Maryam Zolfaghari Dehkharghani (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled "Emergence to dominance: Estimating time to dominance of SARS-CoV-2 variants using nonlinear statistical models" in the journal PLOS ONE. Their research work models the emergence of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “The effects of saffron supplementation on inflammation and hematological parameters in patients with sepsis: A randomized controlled trial,” in the Nutrition Journal (impact factor 4.4) in collaboration with coauthors from the Isfahan University of…