Louisa Messenger (Environmental & Occupational Health) is a co-author of the article, "High-throughput barcoding method for the genetic surveillance of insecticide resistance and species identification in Anopheles gambiae complex malaria vectors", in the journal Scientific Reports. Genetic barcoding of mosquitoes is a useful tool to assist…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) was awarded a pilot grant through the Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) for a project titled "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use Among U.S. Older Adults, 2015-2019." The project is a secondary data analysis of publicly available nationally…

Soumya Upadhyay's (Healthcare Administration and Policy) paper titled "Physician Hospital Integration and its Effect on Hospital Performance: A Study of U.S. Hospitals" was among the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management's 'Best Paper' finalists and also received a Runners-Up award.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled “COVID-19 Infection among Family and Friends: The Psychological Impact on Non-Infected Persons” in the journal Brain Sciences. The article was written in collaboration with authors from New Mexico State University, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, University of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled, “Psychological help-seeking among college students: Applying the multi-theory model of health behavior change in assessing telehealth use for psychological help-seeking” in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine in association with coauthors from the University of…

Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), Matthew Kappel (Southern Nevada Health District), Erick B López, and Amanda Haboush-Deloye (both Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy) published a research article, "A Multistage Public Health Response to Pediatric Lead Exposure: A Case Study on Lead Tainted Turmeric in an…

Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) is a co-author of a newly published article, "Brazilian Strategy for Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Promotion: A Program Impact Pathway Analysis" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This study uses a theory-driven Program Impact Pathway (PIP)…

Prevent Child Abuse Nevada received a $100,000 grant from UnitedHealthcare to introduce a new tele-home visiting pilot program that will check in with new parents two to four weeks after discharge from the hospital as well as provide additional support and engagement in mental and behavioral health services. This is part of UnitedHealthcare'…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health), in association with researchers from Turkey and Italy, have co-authored an article titled, “Role of resilience in psychological adjustment and satisfaction with life among undergraduate students in Turkey: A cross-sectional study” in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Aurora Holloway (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health) published a research article titled "A novel gun law strength index and influential state gun laws for firearm homicide in the United…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have coauthored an interdisciplinary article titled, “Animal-assisted interventions and post-traumatic stress disorders in military and veterans: A systematic review of the literature” in association with researchers from Italy, Canada, Poland, and the United States in the…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) was senior author of a study, “Subjective Cognitive Decline Associated with Discrimination in Medical Settings among Transgender and Nonbinary Older Adults," published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.