Accomplishments: School of Public Health

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) gave an oral presentation titled, "Comparing the social vulnerability index for COVID-19: Adopting a novel approach and analyzing spatial associations," on Nov. 14 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a poster titled, "Assessing COVID-19 vaccination accessibility in Clark County, Nevada," on Nov. 12 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a roundtable presentation titled, "An emerging hotspot analysis of COVID-19 in Clark County, Nevada, 2020-2023," on Nov. 14 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. 
Priyambda Kumra, Asma Awan, Ata Laique, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), presented their poster, "A scoping review of physical activity interventions in the Latinx community," during the American Public Health Association 2023 Annual Meeting on Nov. 13, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of the Latina/o/x Population…
Kacie Washburn, Maxim Gakh, Courtney Coughenour (all Public Health), Kavita Batra, Deborah Kuhls, Bertille Mavegam Tango Assoumou (all Medicine), and William Sousa (Urban Affairs) presented their study titled, “Perceptions of Law Enforcement Officers About Profiling and Disparities in Traffic Stops in the United States: A Comprehensive…
Asma Awan; Siddharth Raich; Laurencia Bonsu; Miklo Alcala; Priyambda Kumra; Ana Daniela Gonzalez; Md. Sohail Akhter; Refat Srejon; Abena Owusu; Susan Dakwa; Blessing Imade; and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), presented their poster, "Planning a Quality Improvement Community-Based Participatory Evaluation of Public Health Disparity…
Keishmer Cardoso and Rebecca Dunnes (both graduate students), and Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 2023 APHA Conference on Nov. 14. Their oral presentation titled, "The diffusion of programa criança feliz: Understanding the municipal factors and characteristics of Brazil's largest early childhood development…
Timothy Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a poster with colleagues from the University of Southern California and California State University Northridge titled, "The association between familial incarceration, external assets, and bullying behaviors among a sample of diverse rural and urban adolescents." The poster was presented…
Cristina Hernandez and Gabriela Buccini (both Social and Behavioral Health) and colleagues presented at the 2023 APHA on Nov. 13. Their presentation titled, “Overcoming data collection barriers within historically marginalized communities through meaningful community engagement efforts,” was part of the Combining Social Justice within Public…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a co-presenter in 12 presentations at the 151st Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association held in Atlanta. The topics of his presentations ranged from the role of yoga in cardiovascular diseases, osteoarthritis, bronchial asthma, and physical activity promotion to…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual paper titled, “Asynchronous online teaching of research methods to graduate students: Application of the multi-theory model of health behavior change” at the 16th International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI 2023) in Seville, Spain. The…
Alexandria Evans and Gabriela Buccini (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 2023 APHA Conference on Nov. 12. Their presentation was part of the Perinatal and Women's Health Poster Session titled "Perceived discrimination when utilizing maternal-child perinatal care: A qualitative study."