Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health) published a paper on "Health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and nonbinary adults 50 years old and older in the United States" in the journal LGBT Health.

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published a paper on "Prenatal exposure to a mixture of organophosphate esters and intelligence among 8-year-old children of the HOME Study" in the journal NeuroToxicology. 

Jennifer R. Pharr (Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently published a study titled "Physical and Mental Disabilities among the Gender-Diverse Population Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ... A Propensity-Matched Analysis" in a Healthcare journal.  The findings of this study advocate for developing policies and…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article entitled, “A theory-based analysis of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among African Americans in the United States: A recent evidence” in co-authorship with Ravi Batra (Coforge) in the journal Healthcare. The article lends support to…

Jason Flatt and Jennifer Pharr (both Environmental & Occupational Health) have been building the UNLV School of Public Health's visibility in the LGBTQIA+ community who are house insecure or experiencing homelessness. An article in Las Vegas Pride Magazine this month features Building H.O.U.S.E. Las Vegas - Bring LGBTQIA+ Housing to Las…

Zahra Mojtahedi (Puiblic Health), a doctoral student, along with, Ji Won Yoo (Medicine), Karen Callahan (Public Health), Neeraj Bhandari and Jay Shen (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), master's of public health student Katayoon Ghodsi, and visiting scholar from China Donghui Lou recently published an article entiled "Inpatient…

Jason Flatt (Environmental & Occupational Health) along with Whitney Wharton of Emory University and Joel Anderson of the University of Tennessee Knoxville received notice of award for their National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging funded grant for $2.3 Million from Sept. 30, 2021 to Aug. 31, 2024. The project…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published a paper entitled "Childhood exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and neurobehavioral domains in children at age 8 years" in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) has co-authored a chapter entitled, “Worldwide rural dermatology health services research" in the book Dermatology in Rural Settings: Organizational, Clinical, and Socioeconomic Perspectives in collaboration with coauthors from University of Mississippi Medical Center and University…

Raisa Kabir (Public Health) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational health) presented three poster presentations at the Nevada Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting held between Sep. 13-15 in Las Vegas.  The posters were, “Thematic analysis on the correlates of physical activity and sedentary behavior among Asian Americans,” “…

The UNLV Contact Tracing Team was named Program of the Year by the Nevada Public Health Association at its 2021 Annual Conference, which took place Sept. 13-15.  Led by School of Public Health graduate students, the contact tracing team has been at the forefront of Southern Nevada's COVID-19 response since spring 2020, having investigated…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) has co-authored an article entitled, “Atopic dermatitis:  Preventing and managing the itch that rashes, and a case for the multi-theory model (MTM) for health behavior change for educational interventions” in the journal SKIN The Journal of Cutaneous Medicine in collaboration with…