Accomplishments: Department of Internal Medicine

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a textbook, Introduction to Community and Public Health (3rd edition) with his former student, Prof. Paul Branscum of Miami University, and published by Wiley. This is the only textbook that delivers definitive treatment of all five core areas of public health, viz.,…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health and Medicine) presented a poster titled, "A Multi-Theory Model–Based Intervention to Promote Stress Relaxation Behaviors among U.S. Veterans," on April 28, 2026, at the VA Research Week and Affiliate Partnership Council Event held at VA Southern Nevada…
Md. Sohail Akhter, Rupam Mitra, Ishrat Zaman, Asma Awan (all Public Health) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) presented and participated in a panel discussion for ARPA Scholarship Project titled "ARPA: Experiential Learning for Public Health Workforce Augmentation" on April 22, 2026 at the Nevada Public Health Association…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, “Global, regional and national burden of ischemic heart disease attributable to suboptimal diet, 1990–2023: A Global Burden of Disease study,” in collaboration with GBD 2023 IHD and Dietary Risk Factor Collaborators in the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Application of the multi-theory model to determine predictors of initiating and sustaining stress management behaviors in undergraduate college students,” in the Journal of Public Health in the Deep South in collaboration with coauthors from the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, “Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, its risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” in the journal,The Lancet Neurology (impact factor: 45.5).…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Healthcare Innovations in Software, Engineering & Technology (HISET-2025) held in Karad, Maharashtra, India. The title of his presentation was "Advent of the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change in…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual paper titled “Online teaching for public health in program planning” at the 18th Annual International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI), 2025, held in Seville, Spain. The presentation highlighted his pedagogical approach using the multi-…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a co-presenter of 31 presentations with his students and colleagues at the 153rd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 2-5. The topics of his presentation ranged from public health workforce training in Nevada, mental health…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk 2023 Collaborators titled, “Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023” in…
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health); Ashish Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics); Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, "Evidence-based clinical effectiveness of Kundalini Yoga: Systematic review of RCTs across multiple health conditions" in the journal, Alternative…
Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article with the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2021 Low Bone Mineral Density Collaborators titled, “The global, regional, and national burden attributable to low bone mineral density, 1990–2020: An analysis of a modifiable risk factor from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” in…