Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Association of age at pancreatic cancer diagnosis with smoking and drinking: A hospital-based and meta-analysis study," which was published in Advances in Digestive Medicine. The study conducted two analyses: First, a systematic review used meta-analysis to examine the association…

Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Roy (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Multilevel mental health determinants among college students: A social ecological scoping review,” in the journal, Mental Health & Prevention (Impact factor…

Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ji Won Yoo (Internal Medicine), Chris Cochran (Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article "Dynamic associations of neighborhood social and physical environment with ED visits for asthma: A spatial change score analysis" in Journal…

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Long-term temperature exposure and depression incidence in the Nurses’ Health Study II, a U.S.-based prospective cohort,” in the journal Environment International, in association with researchers from Harvard, University of California and OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.…

Alireza Rezaee, Dr. Asma Tahir, Dr. Mark Buttner, and Dr. Joram Seggev (UNLV Pollen Lab; Public Health) presented a poster titled, "Comparison of Weed Pollen Concentrations in Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert from 2020-2022," at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) 2026 Conference in Philadelphia on…

Ph.D. graduate Theresa T. Roehr, Patricia Cruz, and Mark Buttner (all School of Public Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Quantitative universal fungal PCR analysis of environmental air samples from Las Vegas, Nevada,” in the journal Aerobiologia. The paper assesses how environmental conditions in Las Vegas play a role in the distribution and…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Intention to reduce dietary salt and its influencing factors in middle-aged and older hypertensive patients: A theory of planned behavior-based cross-sectional study,” in collaboration with researchers from Chongqing Medical University in the journal,…

Manoj Sharma and Mahsa Pashaeimeykola (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented and published a paper titled “Open education utilizing open pedagogy in enlisting and training graduate scholars in public health” in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference held in Valencia, Spain. The…

Barbara Lewis, Chris Cochran, Neeraj Bhandari, Soumya Upadhyay, Erika Marquez (all Public Health) and Stowe Shoemaker's (Hospitality) article titled, "Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Quantitative Study on How Councils are Used and Predictors of Effective Councils," was published in the Journal of Patient Experience. 

Manoj Sharma, Asma Awan, Vikash Patel, Aastha Poudel (all Social & Behavioral Health), Badrunisa Hanif, Tooba Laeeq, and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine) authored an article titled “A theory-based approach to predict stress relaxation behavior among South Asian Americans: A cross-sectional study” in the International Journal of…

Brenna Renn and Katie Singsank (Psychology), Ishrat Zaman (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Kimberly Cobos and Samantha John (Brain Health) recently published an article titled, "Differential item functioning of the Geriatric Depression Scale-short form in the NACC dataset," in Alzheimer's & Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer's…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), Erika Marquez (Environmental and Global Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Global Health), Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Social and Behavioral Health & Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy), and Selam Ayele (Environmental and Global Health) published "Household insecticide use and pyrethroid…