Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper titled, "Impacts on Teamwork Performance for an Engineering Capstone in Emergency Remote Teaching," published in the Journal of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.  The researchers analyzed how teamwork performance was impacted for engineering…

Chad Cross, Brianna Rivera (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) published a paper titled, "Descriptive Epidemiological Analysis of Cestode Infections in Nevada: Characterizing Patients and Analyzing Trends using Patient Utilization Records, 2013-2019," in the Nevada Journal of Public…

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored an article titled, "Cancer Disparities among Pacific Islanders: A Review of Sociocultural Determinants of Health in the Micronesian Region," in the journal Cancers.  Micronesia is an ethnogeographic region within the continent of Oceania that represents an underserved area of the…

Tara Nerida (Social and Behavioral Health), Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Brain Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning) published an article titled, “COVID-19 vaccine acceptance behavior among Hispanics/Latinxs in…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article titled, "Postprandial changes of oxidative stress biomarkers in healthy individuals," in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition. This study aimed to examine the postprandial changes of fluorescent oxidation products, malondialdehyde, total antioxidant capacity, and Superoxide…

Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a paper titled, "Modified Multi-strain SIR Model for Emerging Viral Strains," at the 2023 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) on January 9-11, 2023, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The study presents deterministic and stochastic simulations of the spread of an emergent…

Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Neighborhood socioeconomic status and mortality in the nurses' health study (NHS) and the nurses' health study II (NHSII)," in the journal Environmental Epidemiology.  Neighborhood effects are increasingly recognized as important contributors to health disparities…

Ann Vuong's (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) pilot project on "Early life exposure to flame retardants and kidney function in adolescence" was funded by the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Infrastructure Network for $66,000. Data from the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study will be used to examine whether early…

Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Did Massachusetts' COVID-19 vaccine lottery increase vaccine uptake?," in the journal PLOS ONE. The authors' primary objective was to evaluate whether Massachusetts' COVID-19 vaccine lottery increased vaccine…

Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published an article titled "A higher Asthma Medication Ratio (AMR) predicts a decrease in ED visits among African American and Hispanic Children" in the Journal of Asthma. Higher rates of ED visits and hospitalizations for asthma…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper titled "Associations of gestational exposure to organophosphate esters with gestational age and neonatal anthropometric measures: The HOME study" in the journal Environmental Pollution. Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are developmental toxicants in experimental studies of animals, but…

Bertille Assoumou (Medicine), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amruta Godbole (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ian McDonough (Economics) published an article titled, "Senior food insecurity in the USA: a systematic literature review," in the journal Public Health Nutrition. After examining 20 articles, they found…