Kara Radzak (Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences) has received a $964,806 grant from the Department of Defense’s Military Health System Research Program to lead a two-year project aimed at enhancing telehealth-based care for musculoskeletal injuries in military personnel. In collaboration with partners from the Uniformed Services University, A.T…

Tazveen Fariha, Farhana Khandoker, and Jalal Uddin (all Public Health Ph.D. students) coauthored a paper titled, “Awareness, knowledge, and attitude towards basic life support among healthcare professional students in Bangladesh,” in the journal PLOS Global Public Health, along with researchers from Bangladesh. The paper surveyed healthcare…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article with a doctoral scholar and faculty at Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences titled, “Determinants of childbearing: Behavioral change models and theories: A systematic review,” in the Iranian Journal of Public Health (Impact factor 1.6). In Iran, the…

Francisco Sy, Joseph Guerrero Lopez (all Public Health), Reimund Serafica (Nursing), and their co-authors from Boise State University, Idaho State University, Montana State University, New Mexico State University, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of California Irvine, University of Hawaii at Manoa,…

Francisco Sy, Jay Shen, and Joseph Guerrero Lopez (all Public Health), Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental Medicine) and Reimund Serafica (Nursing) and their co-authors at University of Montana, University of Wyoming, and University of California, Irvine published an article, "Lessons Learned from Ten Years of the Mountain West Clinical and Translational…

Barbara Lewis, Erika Marquez, Chris Cochran, Neeraj Bhandari, Soumya Upadhyay (all Public Health), and Stowe Shoemaker (Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement), co-authored an article, "Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Council Accelerators and Barriers: A Qualitative Study," published in the Journal of Patient Experience.

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article, "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Food Insecurity Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2017–2021," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 

Dr. Francisco Sy (Environmental and Global Health), professor, gave a presentation on "Showcasing How Collaboration Supports Success: The Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Infrastructure Network" at the 9th Annual International Forum of the University of the Philippines International Nursing and Healthcare Forum held on Aug. 8-9,…

Dr. Francisco Sy (Environmental and Global Health), professor, received the Gawad Tanglaw (Beacon of Light) Cultural Heritage Award from the International Association of Multicultural and Filipino-American Educators, on Aug. 22, 2025, in New York City. 

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…