Accomplishments: Department of Social and Behavioral Health

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a manuscript titled “Application of the multi-theory model to improve self-reported determinants of appropriate antibiotic prescribing among veterinary students” with coauthors from Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bam University of Medical Sciences, University of…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Development and validation of the Persian childbearing intention questionnaire based on the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) among women with only one child” in the Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery (Impact factor 0.29) in association with…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Caregiver concerns about preschoolers’ overweight/obesity and undereating and their associations with feeding practices in China” in the journal Archives of Public Health (Impact factor 3.4) in association with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University…
Keith Shulman, Sharmistha Roy, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented three papers at the II. Çukurova International Congress on Social and Human Sciences held in Adana, Türkiye, between July 3-5, 2026, in co-authorship with Zain Akbar of Roseman University of Health Sciences and one in co-authorship with Daryl Traylor of…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 TB HIV Collaborators, coauthored “Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” published in The Lancet.…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Perceived barriers for physical activity in overweight and obese youth: A scoping review” published in the journal Health Science Reports (Impact factor 2.9) with coauthors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The study found that environmental and…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) conducted a featured virtual webinar titled "Scientific Kundalini Energy Yoga (SKEY): The Architecture of Integration: Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science" for the "Break ke Baad" group based in Livermore, California. The webinar covered a description of yoga from a scientific…
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Kumar Biswas (Management Information Systems), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Digital and in-person mindfulness-based interventions for university students’ mental health: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials” in…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “TyG Index and Frailty as Composite Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk and Mortality Across CKM Stages 0–3” in the journal Metabolites (Impact factor 4.5) in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and Qatar University. The study…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, and Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), as a collaborator, with GBD 2023 US Substance Use Disorders Collaborators, coauthored the article titled, “National- and state-level burdens of substance use disorders in the USA, 1990-2023, with forecasts up…
Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy; Social and Behavioral Health), Smriti Neupane (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy), and Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) published a study titled, "Household Food Insecurity Risk and Weight Status Outcomes in Early Childhood: A Public Health…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Diarrhoeal Disease and Enteric Infectious Diseases, published an article titled, “Global burden of enteric infectious diseases, diarrhoeal diseases, and corresponding aetiologies, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease…