Barbara Lewis (Public Health) spoke at the UNLV Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on "Do you have a voice in healthcare? Three critical ways to influence your healthcare and improve your medical center."  

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “An intervention to improve antibiotic prescription behavior in veterinary students: A protocol based on multi-theory model to tackle antimicrobial resistance,” in the journal, Health Science Reports (Impact Factor: 2), with coauthors from Hormozgan…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has been elected a section councilor in the Integrative, Complementary, and Traditional Health Practices Section of the American Public Health Association for a three-year term. APHA is the largest and oldest professional organization in the field in the nation and Sharma has been…

The Nevada Minority Health and Equity Coalition (NMHEC) received an award from the National Foundation for Centers and Disease Control and Prevention for a total of $128,000. In partnership with the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the Nevada Office of Minority Health and Equity (NOMHE), NMHEC was selected to participate in the…

Emylia Terry, Jennifer Pharr, Ravi Batra (all Public Health) & Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a study, "Protective and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Behavior Among Sexual Minority Women in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study" in the LGBT Health journal. This study highlights that tackling structural inequities such as racism…

Henry Krasner, Jeffrey Martin, Crysty-Ann Olaco, Dale M. Netski, Kavita Batra (all Medicine) along with Nicolette Harmon (Public Health) published a study, "Community Level Correlates of COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Analysis," in the Vaccines journal. Krasner, Martin, Olaco are medical students and…

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article, "Trend in Respite Use by Race Among Caregivers for People Living with Dementia," in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Monitoring of Fabric Integrity and Attrition Rate of Dual-Active Ingredient Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets in Tanzania: A Prospective Cohort Study Nested in a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial" in the journal Insects.  This study evaluated the…

Timothy Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Andrea Lopez (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on "Development and preliminary validation of the positive consequences of cannabis (PCOC) scale" in the journal Addictive Behaviors. The goal of the study was to develop and test…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored "Synthesizing Best Practices to Promote Health Equity for Older Adults Through Community-Engaged Research" in the journal, Research in Gerontological Nursing. This review article highlights how community-engaged research can help to promote health equity among older adults, including an…

Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) published an article, "Trends in forgone medical care and unmet needs among Medicare beneficiaries with a history of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national, repeated cross-sectional study," in the BMJ Open. 

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper on "Maternal and newborn metabolomic changes associated with urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolite concentrations at delivery: an untargeted approach" in the journal Metabolomics. Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been associated with…