Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health) and community partner, Research, Education, and Access to Community Health (R.E.A.C.H.), have been accepted to the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Partnership Academy at the Detroit Urban Research Center. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the CBPR Partnership…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with colleagues from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Southern Mississippi, and Berea College, published an article, “Introspective Meditation before Seeking Pleasurable Activities as a Stress Reduction Tool among College Students: A Multi-theory…
Gabriela Buccini (Social & Behavioral Health) has been accepted into the 2022-24 Institute for Implementation Science Scholars (IS-2) at Washington University in St. Louis. The IS-2 is a competitive mentored training program for investigators interested in applying dissemination and implementation (D&I) methods and strategies to…
Dr. Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently co-authored and published a research article, "Association Between Shift Rotation and 30-year Framingham Risk of Cardiovascular Disease among Male Workers in a Medium-sized Manufacturing Factory," in Industrial Health. Findings reveal that workers on weekly rotations involving 3–5…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) is the recipient of the 2022 Director’s Award given by the Ohio Commission on Minority Health for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the field of knowledge about minority health and the elimination of health disparities. The award will be conferred virtually later this month from Columbus,…
Tim Grigsby (Social & Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, "Effects of Multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences on Substance Use in Young Adults: A Review of the Literature" in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Consensus across reviewed studies found that the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and substance…
Andrew Thomas Reyes, Ehdzky-Ray M. Manzano (both Nursing), and Chad L. Cross (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored, “The Moderating Role of Resilience on Mindfulness, Experiential Avoidance, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms of College Student Veterans: A Cross-Sectional Study,” which is published in the Issues in…
Congratulations to the recipients of these 2022 UNLV teaching awards:
Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award
Xiaoling Hays - Chinese/World Languages and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts
Elizabeth "Hope" Hinchman - School of Nursing
Yousif Muradian - Finance, Lee School of Business
Hiroko Tadano - Japanese/World Languages and…
Christopher Johansen (Social & Behavioral Health) is a recipient of the Nevada INBRE's Development Research Project (DRP) Award titled, "Impact of Parental Acculturation among Latino Parents and Their Preschool-aged Children in Southern Nevada."
The DRP program is a mentored career development program intended to advance the careers of Nevada…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, “Nutrition Literacy of Middle School Students and its Influencing Factors: A Cross-sectional Study in Chongqing, China” in collaboration with colleagues from Chongqing Medical University (China); Sichuan University (China); department of communicable disease and prevention,…
Asma Tahir (Environmental & Occupational Health) presented a poster on "Comparison of the Airborne Fungal Spore Concentrations in the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas 2016-2020" at the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology annual meeting in Phoenix last month.
The poster also has been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical…
Janice M. Pluth (Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences) and Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), along with colleagues at UC Berkley, recently published the article "Cellular DNA Effects of Radiation and Cancer Risk Assessment in Cells with Mitochondrial Defects" in the Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences. The…