Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, “Suicidal Ideation and Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Marijuana Among U.S. Adults: Findings from the 2021-2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,” in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, along with researchers from California and Mississippi. The study…
Rupam Mitra and Mahsa Pashaeimeykola (both Social & Behavioral Health) have been selected to receive the Emerging Scholar Award at the Sixteenth International Conference organized by Health, Wellness & Society to be held at the University of Guadalajara in México on 10-11 September 2026. Mitra and Pashaeimeykola are both doctoral…
Lung-Chang Chien, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), and colleagues published an article titled, “Tracking COVID-19 vaccination barriers over time: a census-tract-level barrier index approach,” in the journal Epidemiology and Infection.
This study developed a dynamic, census-tract-…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), Robert S Levrant (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have recently published a study titled, "Prologue to the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change: A Phenomenological Case Study to Determine Vaping Cessation Strategies Among Young Adults," in…
Undergraduate student Vidhani S. Goel (Public Health) has been named to the dean’s list for three consecutive years. Over the past two years, she delivered 17 national and 35 regional/local presentations and co-authored 13 peer-reviewed manuscripts focused on maternal and child health, neonatal outcomes, Medicaid disparities, and healthcare access…
Deborah Kuhls, Kavita Batra, Bertille Mavegam Tango Assoumou, William Porter, Darin Mains (all Medicine), Courtney Coughenour, Maxim Gakh (both Public Health), and William Sousa (Criminal Justice) presented a session titled "Solving Complex Problems through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Lessons from UNLV's Statistical Transparency of Policing (…
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…