Rupam Mitra (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a poster titled, “Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) practices and their association with the nutritional status of adolescent girls in the Rohingya community in Bangladesh" at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a poster titled, “A qualitative interpretive approach to examine different aspects of experiential learning in public health students" at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Annual Conference held at Long Beach,…

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research on "Patient and Family Advisory Councils" to the Arkansas Hospital Association. 

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has been ranked 20th globally in Stress Management in his career in the database, Scholar GPS, which ranks over 29 million scientists. Sharma is known for the books, Practical Stress Management (8th ed.), Introspective Meditation for Complete Contentment (Santosha) (2nd ed.),…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Exploring barriers to formal mental health help-seeking among Iranian adolescent girls: A qualitative study using the PRECEDE model,” in the International Journal of Adolescence and Youth (5-year Impact factor 3.8) with coauthors from Shiraz University of…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health), alongside the GBD 2021 Asthma and Allergic Diseases Collaborators, published a study in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine on the global burden of asthma and atopic dermatitis (1990–2021) with projections to 2050. While total cases are expected to rise, age-standardized prevalence rates should…

Kimberly Jones-Rudolph, Wilfredo Lacro, Larry Hurst, and Jay Shen (all Healthcare Administration and Policy) have published a paper, "Organizational Characteristics Associated with Addressing Community Social Determinants of Health in U.S. Hospitals: A National Perspective," in Hospitals. Jones-Rudolph, Lacro, and Hurst are doctoral…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with researchers from Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Canada, coauthored a paper titled, “Prenatal PFAS exposures and cardiometabolic health in middle childhood in the MIREC cohort," in the journal Environmental Research. The paper examined prenatal exposure to…

Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research on "Patient and Family Advisory Councils" to the Colorado Hospital Association. 

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article association with coauthors from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences titled, “The effects of saffron supplementation on inflammatory factors and clinical outcomes in sepsis patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU): Study protocol for a double-blind…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article association with coauthors from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences titled, “The effects of concurrent alpha-linolenic acid, L-carnitine supplementation on clinical symptoms, mental health, and quality of life in women with migraine: A randomized, triple-…

Megan R. Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Andrew Woods (Center for Business and Economic Research) composed an expert panel for a special collaborative episode of Vegas PBS's Nevada Week and KNPR's State of Nevada that looked back at the COVID-19…