Amanda Haboush-Deloye and M. Amaris Knight (both Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy) published a paper on "Healthy Foods in Convenience Stores: Benefits, Barriers, and Best Practices" in the journal Health Promotion Practice.  This study aimed to identify which healthy foods consumers would like to see offered in convenience…

Kaelia Saniatan (graduate research assistant), Smriti Neupane (graduate research assistant), Gabriela Buccini (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article titled: "Socio-demographic, maternal, and infant characteristics associated with pacifier use among six-months old infants in Clark…

Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was the lead author of "Association of Integrating Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care at Federally Qualified Health Centers With Utilization and Follow-up Care" published in the JAMA Network Open. The primary objective was to examine the association of a comprehensive mental health integration…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper on "Efficacy of Pyrethroid–Pyriproxyfen and Pyrethroid–Chlorfenapyr Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) for the Control of Non-Anopheles Mosquitoes: Secondary Analysis from a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (cRCT)" in the journal Insects. Failure to control…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented an oral presentation titled, “Consumer Satisfaction Survey for a COVID-19 Health Program Evaluation: The RQFSM Framework for Process Evaluation,” at the International Aegean Conferences Social Sciences and Humanities – VII held in…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “Community-based participatory evaluation of public health initiatives: a strategic gap analysis using the RQFSM (reach, quality, fidelity, satisfaction, management) framework,” at the 7th International Conference…

Emylia Terry (Environmental and Occupational Health) has been selected to receive the President's UNLV Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2023-24.  The President’s UNLV Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships are funded by gifts to the UNLV Foundation by the Frank Koch Living Trust for the research support of doctoral students. The…

Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra,  Anita Chatterjee, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented an oral presentation entitled, "Utilizing community-based participatory research based on the RQFSM model for evaluating health disparity reduction efforts in rural Nevada, 2021-2022," at the Rural…

Reimund Serafica (lead author) and Lorraine Evangelista (both Nursing), and Timothy Grigsby (Public Health) and Bradley Donohue (Psychology) co-authored an article, "Occupational Stress: A Concept Analysis with Implications for Immigrant Workers' Mental Health in the United States." The paper conceptually examined occupational stress among…

Tim Grigsby, Andrea Lopez (both Social and Behavioral Health), and colleagues authored a manuscript titled, "A Scoping Review of Risk and Protective Factors for Negative Cannabis Use Consequences" in the journal Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment.  Numerous reviews have examined risk and protective factors for alcohol-related negative…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health) was invited to present her book chapter, "Transgender Sports Bans are a Human Rights Issue," during the virtual Human Rights in Sports Conference on April 5. Pharr presented on the impact of transgender sports bans on transgender women athletes and the LGBTQ+ community. She discussed rights…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper titled, "Identification of two insecticide resistance markers in Ethiopian Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes using a multiplex amplicon sequencing assay," in the journal Scientific Reports. The expansion of Anopheles stephensi poses a significant threat to malaria control…