Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) published an article on "Prescription Painkiller Misuse in Hispanic and non-Hispanic Adults Ages 50 and Older: Trends and Correlates in a National Sample, 2015-2019…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) was interviewed by KTNV Channel 13 about "Vets reminding pet owners about heartworm risks as more mosquitoes show up across Southern Nevada."  Messenger explains that in the last few years, Las Vegas has seen a massive uptick in mosquitoes, partially due to the weather.  The…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Louisa Messenger, Miklo Alcala (both Environmental and Occupational Health), and Bryson Carrier (Integrated Health Sciences) presented "Soil-transmitted helminths in the United States: using big data to characterize patients and analyze disease trends" during the 100th anniversary annual meeting of the…

Faculty Sara Rosenkranz, Andrew Hooyman, Richard Rosenkranz (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with students Chris Acosta, Jose Hidalgo, CindyRomina Ballesteros Paniagua (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Daniela Gonzalez-Alvarez (Social and Behavioral Health) presented compelling research on infant formula…

Dr. Mandy K. Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), met with members of the School of Public Health to discuss some of the current CDC-funded projects that they are working on. One of these projects include the Nevada Childhood Lead Prevention Program, led by Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Uncovering the genetic diversity in Aedes aegypti insecticide resistance genes through global comparative genomics" in the journal Scientific Reports. Aedes aegypti is a vector of many arboviruses including Zika, dengue, yellow fever, West Nile and Chikungunya.…

Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a study titled "Visual Detection Probability of Mean Shifts" during the 2024 Symposium of Data Science and Statistics held in Richmond, VA from June 4-7. Visually detecting trend changes in statistical graphics is often done but rarely studied. This study estimates the detection rate of…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Erika Marquez, Samantha Smith, Tiana Tu (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy) co-published an article titled, "Exploring the role of the social vulnerability index in understanding COVID-19 immunization rates,"…

Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Public Health; Nevada Institute for Children's Research & Policy) presented "Essentials for Childhood: Upstream Prevention" at the Washoe County Prevention Conference on May 31 in Reno, Nevada.   The aim of this presentation was to understand that while the association between chronic exposure to adverse childhood…

Deborah A. Kuhls, Bertille Mavegam Tango, Kavita Batra (all Medicine), along with Courtney Coughenour, Max Gakh, William Porter, Darin Mains, Kacie Washburn (all Public Health), and William Sousa (Urban Affairs) presented findings from the Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Project, resulting from SB 236 (2021) at…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) hosted a recruitment symposium on studying abroad to introduce the UNLV School of Public Health in the Department of Statistics at National Taipei University in Taiwan. He also delivered a seminar talk titled "Variable Dimension Reduction Methods in the Next Generation and Application."

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article within the GBD 2021 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators team titled, “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and…