Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently had a poster accepted into UNLV's Best Teaching Practices Expo. The poster focuses on "Remote Teaching of Research Methods." Research Methods, offered by the School of Public Health, was taught remotely by Manoj Sharma to undergraduate students (primarily from public health) in…

Ann M. Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Proximity to Traffic and Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Relation to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Conduct Disorder in U.S. children" in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. Conduct disorder (CD) is a…

Dharini Bhammar (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published a paper,  “Quantification and Verification of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adults with Prehypertension” in the journal Sports. The article shows that verification testing is feasible, validates the attainment of maximal…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), Patricia Cruz, Chad L. Cross, Neeraj Bhandari, Jennifer R. Pharr, Mark P. Buttner (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Farooq Abdulla (University Medical Center of Southern Nevada) co-authored an article in The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health titled “Incidence of Neonatal…

Guogen Shan (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) received a $1.5 million grant, "Alzheimer's Disease: New Trial Designs for Emerging Challenges," from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging. The research team also includes Dr. Jeff Cummings from the Brain Health Department as well as researchers from Cleveland…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) co-authored an article, "Examining Determinants of Metabolic Syndrome in People with Intellectual Disabilities" in collaboration with colleagues Ram Lakhan and Louisa Summers of Berea College and Vinayak K. Nahar of the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Markie L. C. Twist (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently wrote the "Introduction to Special Issue on Sexual Health Risks and Assessments" in the journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy. The journal offers a multidisciplinary forum for review and debate in the field of sex and relationship therapies. It presents original research…

Zahra Mojtahedi (Healthcare Administration) published an article, “Obesity and COVID-19: The mTOR Pathway as a Possible Culprit," in Obesity Reviews. The co-author is Alireza Bolourian from the College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University. They introduced a novel mechanism by which obesity can increase COVID-19 susceptibility.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article, "Investigating the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with coauthors from University of Utah and Coforge. It is a comprehensive meta-analysis…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and collaborators recently published an article, "Spatial and Temporal Variability of Brown Carbon in United States: Implications for Direct Radiative Effects," in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Brown carbon aerosol from wildland fires represents one of the major…

Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Maxim Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health) published a research paper, "The Lagged Effect of State Gun Laws on the Reduction of State-level Firearm Homicide Mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2017," in a peer-reviewed journal, Public Health. The study found that, on average,…

Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was invited to speak at the Utah Health Information Network Health Information Technology 2020 conference. The presentation discussed Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Sources and Applications in Administrative Data Sets. Specifically, the presentation addressed the importance of tracking SDoH…