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School of Public Health News

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Current Public Health News

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Headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of UNLV.

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The exercise builds empathy around the barriers low-income families face in accessing healthcare.

UNLV XMAS
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This month’s frosty headlines and highlights from the students and faculty of UNLV.

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Approach aimed at lifting Nevada from its low rankings in health care access. 

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Embracing the idea that we’re “better together,” UNLV’s academic health center takes another step forward.

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A monthly roundup of the top news stories at UNLV, featuring the presidential election, gaming partnerships, and much more.

Public Health In The News

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Two days of record high temperatures could trigger an early response from Mother Nature.

PharmaVoice

An H5N1 outbreak is killing flocks of wild birds in Massachusetts and sickening dairy cows in 16 states while a new strain of H5N9 bird flu has emerged in California. As bird flu continues to spread among animals, experts are on high alert for signs the virus has found the genetic key it needs to unlock a widespread problem for humans.

Indica News

In 2025, the Maha-Kumbh began in Prayagraj on January 13, 2025, with the Pausha Purnima Snan, and concludes on February 26, 2025, with the Shahi Snan, corresponding with Maha Shivaratri. It is envisaged that it will be a large gathering of over 100 million pilgrims attending it.

India Currents

Rajinder*, a 68-year-old first-generation Indian immigrant, and Saroj*, 65, a first-generation immigrant, are a married couple living in Ohio. They are now retired. Rajinder worked with the US Postal Service and Saroj was a Retail Manager at a grocery chain.  They have one adult daughter, Neerja*, who lives close by and has a family with two young children. Saroj has noticed recently that Rajinder has become forgetful to the extent that he forgets to keep track of monthly bills.

The Sunday Guardian

This Mela is considered as a penance to purify oneself and various limbs of yoga are reflected in the prescribed practices and austerities recommended as Kalpavas during this period.

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Spiritually, taking dips in the holy water of the sacred rivers is believed to provide liberation, which is the ultimate purpose of the followers of Sanatan Dharma.

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Recent Public Health Accomplishments

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled, “Family incarceration and adolescent nicotine, alcohol, and cannabis use: A coarsened exact matching approach,” in the journal Addictive Behaviors, in association with researchers from California State University. The article evaluates the effect of the incarceration of…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual talk titled, “An Analysis of a 4E Pedagogical Framework for Experiential Learning of Public Health Doctoral Students” at the 11th International New York Conference On Evolving Trends in Interdisciplinary Research &…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a poster titled "Impact of Acculturation on Muscle Dysmorphia and Anabolic Steroid Use in FilAm University Students" at the 2025 Asian American Psychological Association - Division of Filipino Americans Conference held in Davis, CA on January 25-26, 2025. Pamela Pioquinto (Public…
Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health), Miklo Alcala, and Bryson Carrier coauthored an article titled, “Descriptive Epidemiology of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections in the United States: Using Big Data to Characterize Patients and Analyze Parasitic Disease Trends,” in the journal,…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual paper titled, “Synthesizing a pedagogical analysis toward experiential learning of public health doctoral students,” at the 10th International Symposium on Current Developments in Science, Technology, and Social Sciences…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled “Global metabolomic alterations associated with endocrine-disrupting chemicals among pregnant individuals and newborns," in the journal Metabolomics, along with researchers from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Georgia and New York…