Accomplishments: School of Public Health

Kelly Chung (Public Health) was honored to be chosen as one of only three student podium presenters at the 11th Annual Research Symposium hosted by the Roseman University of Health Sciences. Chung presented her research project, "Environmental Parasite Contamination: A Study Evaluating Soil in Urban Dog Parks." She completed this study as part of…
Pearl Pinera, Pearl Kim, Fye Pinera (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy; Center for Health Disparities Research) recently published "Social Determinants and Health Equity Activities: Are They Connected with the Adaptation of AI and Telehealth Services in the U.S. Hospitals?" in the…
Barbara Lewis, Chris Cochran, Erika Marquez, Neeraj Bhandari, Jennifer Pharr, Soumya Upadhyay (all School of Public Health), and  Stowe Shoemaker (Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement), co-authored an article, "Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study," in the Journal of Patient Experience.  
Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Spatial analysis of teen births near the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site,” in the journal Environmental Research: Health, in association with Carolina Villanueva, Susan A. Korrick, and Veronica M. Vieira. The article assesses the sociodemographic and geographic factors…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled, “Family incarceration and adolescent nicotine, alcohol, and cannabis use: A coarsened exact matching approach,” in the journal Addictive Behaviors, in association with researchers from California State University. The article evaluates the effect of the incarceration of…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual talk titled, “An Analysis of a 4E Pedagogical Framework for Experiential Learning of Public Health Doctoral Students” at the 11th International New York Conference On Evolving Trends in Interdisciplinary Research &…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a poster titled "Impact of Acculturation on Muscle Dysmorphia and Anabolic Steroid Use in FilAm University Students" at the 2025 Asian American Psychological Association - Division of Filipino Americans Conference held in Davis, CA on January 25-26, 2025. Pamela Pioquinto (Public…
Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health), Miklo Alcala, and Bryson Carrier coauthored an article titled, “Descriptive Epidemiology of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections in the United States: Using Big Data to Characterize Patients and Analyze Parasitic Disease Trends,” in the journal,…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual paper titled, “Synthesizing a pedagogical analysis toward experiential learning of public health doctoral students,” at the 10th International Symposium on Current Developments in Science, Technology, and Social Sciences…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled “Global metabolomic alterations associated with endocrine-disrupting chemicals among pregnant individuals and newborns," in the journal Metabolomics, along with researchers from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Georgia and New York…
Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored an article titled, “Dynamic neurocognitive adaptation in aging: Development and validation of a new scale,” in the journal Alzheimer’s Association, in association with researchers from Italy and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. The article proposes the…
Amruta Godbole and Ann Vuong (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Associations between neonicotinoids and inflammation in US adults using hematological indices: NHANES 2015-2016," in the journal Environmental Epidemiology, along with Aimin Chen with the University of Pennsylvania. The paper explores the influence of…