Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a keynote presentation on "Confronting Emerging & Neglected Diseases and Climate Change: From Local to Global" during the Infectious Diseases and Climate Change meeting organized by the National Academy of Science and Technology on Feb. 17 in Manila, Philippines. 

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented on "Vector control for malaria prevention during humanitarian emergencies: a systematic review and meta-analysis" during the 18th Vector Control Working Group annual meeting on Feb. 6-8 in Accra, Ghana. The results of this study led to the establishment of two new malaria vector…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the recipient of the 2023 Frank A. Chambers Excellence in Air Pollution Control Award from the Air & Waste Management Association.  This award, established by resolution of A&WMA's Board of Directors in 1954, is for outstanding achievement by an individual in the science…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing) is the lead author of the article, "Passive Suicidal Ideations in Older Adults: A Case Report," in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Serafica co-published with Timothy Grigsby (Public Health). The article presents the diagnosis and treatment of an older adult with depression and passive suicide ideation (SI).  

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a manuscript titled, “The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use Trajectories and the Moderating Role of Social Support,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The study assesses the longitudinal impact of adverse childhood…

Faria Tavacoli (Public Health) was selected to be a part of the 2023 Advisory Board of the Born This Way Foundation, an organization co-founded by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, that supports the mental health of young people and works with them to build a kinder and braver world. The board consists of 31 people, ages 15 to 24 who…

The Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy (NICRP) was mentioned in the article, "Leaving No Stone Unturned: Southern Nevada Health District" that is featured on CDC's "Stories from the Field" page. The Southern Nevada Health District's (SNHD) Office of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is a CDC partner doing heroic…

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…