Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on "Correlates of COVID-19 Pandemic-related Increases in Sleep Aid and Anti-anxiety Medication Use" in the Journal of Substance Use. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a stressful environment of fear, isolation, and economic instability. This study quantifies…

Jay Shen, Pearl Kim (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Dr. Ji Yoo (Medicine) recently co-authored an article, "Opioid Use Disorders and Hospital Palliative Care among Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers: Ten-year Trend and Associated Factors in the U.S. from 2005 to 2014," published on Medicine.

Asma Tahir, Samin Kamal, Mark Buttner (all Environmental & Occupational Health), and Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences), along with Joseph Jean, '18 BS Health Education and '20 Master of Public Health, and local allergist/immunologist Dr. Jorem Seggev, presented a virtual poster at the 2021 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published a peer-reviewed conference paper, "Applying Advanced Data Analytics Methods to the Baseline Data of ISD Sensor Network Testbed for System Failure Detection," in the proceeding of the Waste Management Symposia 2021. In this work, advanced data analytics methods are applied to the in-…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) coauthored an article, “Skin Cancer in Skin of Color. The Importance of Expanding Education and Prevention Efforts to Include This Community” in collaboration with colleagues from University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Mississippi Medical Center in the Journal of Dermatology…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business), Axenya Kachen (Public Health), Rebecca Gill (Political Science), Paula Peter, and Maria Petrescu recently had their A- level psychology and marketing interdisciplinary paper, "#MeToo, #MeThree, #MeFour: Twitter as Community Building across Academic and Corporate Institutions" published. Kachen…

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Niema Y. Beckford, and Eddy M. Virgen (both Public Health), along with Yunyu Xiao, Purdue University Indianapolis; Caroline D. Bergeron,  Public Health Agency of Canada; and Matthew L. Smith, Texas A&M University, recently published an article, "Suicide Distribution and Trends Among Male…

Heejin Mun (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Bowen Liu (Mathematics), Thu Huynh Anh Pham (Biology), and Qing Wu (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) recently published an article on "C-Reactive Protein and Fracture Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies through the Use of Both Frequentist and Bayesian…

Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored a paper on "Predictors of Mind–Body Therapy Use Among Sexual Minority Older Adults" in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 

Cae Swanger (Healthcare Administration & Policy) recently was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Healthcare IT category of the Las Vegas Top Tech Awards. She was honored for her role within HCA Healthcare and her tenure within the tech industry as a whole.

Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) in association with Ram Lakhan of Berea College published an invited commentary, “Alcohol Advertising:  Implications for Reducing the Negative Impact on Underage Drinking” in the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. The commentary brings to the forefront the…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "Utility of Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Explain the Intention for PAP Adherence in Newly Diagnosed Sleep Apnea Patients" in the journal, Nature and Science of Sleep, with coauthors from the Advanced Center for Sleep Disorders in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the University…