Asma Tahir (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Eric Matesen (CCSD/UNLV Pollen Monitoring Program) presented a poster titled, "Annual Comparison of Grass, Tree, and Weed Pollen in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2019-2021," during the annual conference of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology on Feb. 24-27 in San Antonio, Texas.…

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored an article titled, "Cancer Disparities among Pacific Islanders: A Review of Sociocultural Determinants of Health in the Micronesian Region," in the journal Cancers.  Micronesia is an ethnogeographic region within the continent of Oceania that represents an underserved area of the…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) delivered a keynote address to the International Conference on Emerging Need to Strengthen Global Public Health Policies and Sports Sciences (ICGPHPSS) titled, “The role of newer health behavior theories in global public health.” The conference was held as a hybrid at Sikkim Manipal…

Tara Nerida (Social and Behavioral Health), Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Brain Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning) published an article titled, “COVID-19 vaccine acceptance behavior among Hispanics/Latinxs in…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with colleagues, “A systematic review of measures of gender and biological sex: Exploring candidates for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) research,” in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. This research highlights current…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper titled, "Towards environmental detection, quantification, and molecular characterization of Anopheles stephensi and Aedes aegypti from experimental larval breeding sites," in the journal Scientific Reports. This study assessed the suitability of using environmental DNA…

Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a keynote presentation on "Confronting Emerging & Neglected Diseases and Climate Change: From Local to Global" during the Infectious Diseases and Climate Change meeting organized by the National Academy of Science and Technology on Feb. 17 in Manila, Philippines. 

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented on "Vector control for malaria prevention during humanitarian emergencies: a systematic review and meta-analysis" during the 18th Vector Control Working Group annual meeting on Feb. 6-8 in Accra, Ghana. The results of this study led to the establishment of two new malaria vector…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the recipient of the 2023 Frank A. Chambers Excellence in Air Pollution Control Award from the Air & Waste Management Association.  This award, established by resolution of A&WMA's Board of Directors in 1954, is for outstanding achievement by an individual in the science…

Reimund Serafica (Nursing) is the lead author of the article, "Passive Suicidal Ideations in Older Adults: A Case Report," in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Serafica co-published with Timothy Grigsby (Public Health). The article presents the diagnosis and treatment of an older adult with depression and passive suicide ideation (SI).  

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a manuscript titled, “The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use Trajectories and the Moderating Role of Social Support,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The study assesses the longitudinal impact of adverse childhood…

Faria Tavacoli (Public Health) was selected to be a part of the 2023 Advisory Board of the Born This Way Foundation, an organization co-founded by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, that supports the mental health of young people and works with them to build a kinder and braver world. The board consists of 31 people, ages 15 to 24 who…