Courtney Coughenour (Public Health), Maxim Gakh (Public Health), Bertille Mavegam Tango Assoumou (Medicine) Laurencia Bonsu (Public Health), Kacie Washburn (Public Health), Darin Mains (Medicine), William Sousa (Criminal Justice),  Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) presented a poster titled "Law Enforcement Officers’…

The RAPID (Rural Aerial Provision of Intervention & Delivery) initiative has been selected as one of three winning projects in the President’s Interdisciplinary Research Accelerator Challenge, organized by the UNLV Division of Research. RAPID is co-led by principal investigator Kavita Batra and co-PI Dr. Deborah Kuhls (both Medicine). The…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing), Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing), and Miguel Fudolig (Public Health) co-authored an article titled "Underrated risk: Food insecurity and distress of Filipino Americans with hypertension in a primary care setting" in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. The study examined the relationship…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published the article, “Global burden of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use in 204 countries, 1990-2023: A Global Burden of Disease Study,” as a senior collaborator in the journal, Nature Medicine (Impact factor 50.0). Drug use disorders (DUDs) are among the rising global…

UNLV researchers Jalal Uddin; Nicole V. DeVille, Miguel Fudolig, Merrill R. Landers, and Jason "Jace" D. Flatt (all Public Health) as well as Chad Cross at Texas Tech have published a new study in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health titled: “Sociodemographic differences in skilled nursing facility discharge among Parkinson’s…

Asma Awan (Public Health) has been selected as the recipient of the SOPHE 2026 Vivian Drenckhahn Student Scholarship Award by the National Office of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). This award is given to only three students annually who have excelled academically and demonstrated a commitment to addressing the public’s health…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published the article, “Global, regional, and national burden of chronic respiratory diseases and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2023: A Global Burden of Disease study,” as a senior collaborator in the journal, Nature Medicine (Impact factor 50.0). The study found that globally…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored an article titled, “The effectiveness of long-lasting spatial repellent emanators against malaria in humanitarian crisis settings in northern Nigeria: a two-arm pragmatic, open-label, controlled trial,” in The Lancet’s Infectious Diseases journal, in association with researchers from…

Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) has been appointed by Gov. Lombardo to serve on the Behavioral Health Planning and Advisory Council (since 2020) and the Commission on Aging for the State of Nevada for the next two years.

Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Norovirus: Emerging challenges and clinical conundrums,” in the journal Advances in Medicine, Psychology and Public Health. The manuscript underscores…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) recently co-authored a paper titled, "Do local geographic characteristics moderate the association between familial incarceration and adolescent depression and anxiety?," in BMC Psychology along with researchers from California State University, Northridge and University of Southern California.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Ravi Batra (Public Health) along with the Global Burden of Disease 2023 Lower Respiratory Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators, published “Global Burden of Lower Respiratory Infections and Aetiologies, 1990–2023” in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. This global analysis found that lower respiratory…