Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Diabetes Type 2 Risk Score for African Americans based on Jackson Heart Study data: A cross-sectional study,” in association with colleagues from Jackson State University in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The article discusses the…

Kyle Henson (Healthcare Administration and Policy) is a recipient of the undergraduate Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Scholarship Award for 2023. The HIMSS Foundation awards two $5,000 HIMSS Student Member scholarships annually: one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate student. The scholarships are for HIMSS…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published a paper titled, "Evaluation of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality by Race and Ethnicity Among Pregnant and Recently Pregnant Women in the US, 2019 to 2020" in the journal JAMA Network Open. Research has suggested trends of worsening maternal health associated with depression,…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled "Efficacy of pyriproxyfen-pyrethroid long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid LLINs compared with pyrethroid-only LLINs for malaria control in Benin: a cluster-randomised, superiority trial" in The Lancet journal.  New classes of…

Priyambda Kumra (Public Health) was accepted into Shot@Life's 2023 Spring Summit in Washington D.C. Shot@Life is a campaign of the United Nations Foundation. The summit will teach participants how to be a vaccine advocate and champion equitable access to immunizations during an essential time for global health. Participants will learn from…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) and colleagues recently published in Journals of Gerontology Series B, "Transgender Adults from Minoritized Ethnoracial Groups in the U.S. Report Greater Subjective Cognitive Decline." This study found that minoritized ethnoracial transgender adults were more likely to report problems with their…

Karen Callahan (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Lung cancer in never smokers: Distinct population-based patterns by age, sex, and race/ethnicity," in the journal Lung Cancer. In this study, researchers examined the patterns of lung cancer among people who never smoked, an understudied but sizable group. The…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has once again been listed on Elsevier and Stanford University’s annual report of the top-cited researchers from across the globe based on the work completed during a single year and throughout the person’s career. The most recent list was published on Oct. 10, 2022, in PLOS Biology.…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has published a book titled, Evaluation and Measurement in Health Promotion, with Dr. Rick Lingyak Petosa of The Ohio State University through the publisher Wiley. The book guides current and future public health professionals in becoming experimenting practitioners who take a data-…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article titled, "Postprandial changes of oxidative stress biomarkers in healthy individuals," in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition. This study aimed to examine the postprandial changes of fluorescent oxidation products, malondialdehyde, total antioxidant capacity, and Superoxide…

Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a paper titled, "Modified Multi-strain SIR Model for Emerging Viral Strains," at the 2023 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) on January 9-11, 2023, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The study presents deterministic and stochastic simulations of the spread of an emergent…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China,” in the International Journal of Public Health in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and…