Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) delivered a keynote address to the International Conference on Emerging Need to Strengthen Global Public Health Policies and Sports Sciences (ICGPHPSS) titled, “The role of newer health behavior theories in global public health.” The conference was held as a hybrid at Sikkim Manipal…

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…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with colleagues, “A systematic review of measures of gender and biological sex: Exploring candidates for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) research,” in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. This research highlights current…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-authored a manuscript titled, “The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use Trajectories and the Moderating Role of Social Support,” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The study assesses the longitudinal impact of adverse childhood…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Diabetes Type 2 Risk Score for African Americans based on Jackson Heart Study data: A cross-sectional study,” in association with colleagues from Jackson State University in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The article discusses the…

Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) co-published a paper titled, "Evaluation of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality by Race and Ethnicity Among Pregnant and Recently Pregnant Women in the US, 2019 to 2020" in the journal JAMA Network Open. Research has suggested trends of worsening maternal health associated with depression,…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) and colleagues recently published in Journals of Gerontology Series B, "Transgender Adults from Minoritized Ethnoracial Groups in the U.S. Report Greater Subjective Cognitive Decline." This study found that minoritized ethnoracial transgender adults were more likely to report problems with their…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has once again been listed on Elsevier and Stanford University’s annual report of the top-cited researchers from across the globe based on the work completed during a single year and throughout the person’s career. The most recent list was published on Oct. 10, 2022, in PLOS Biology.…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has published a book titled, Evaluation and Measurement in Health Promotion, with Dr. Rick Lingyak Petosa of The Ohio State University through the publisher Wiley. The book guides current and future public health professionals in becoming experimenting practitioners who take a data-…

Crystal Oden, Emily Weinschreider, and Hilary Linzie (all Medicine) published an article titled, "Self-inflicted Stabbings as Non-fatal Suicide Attempts: A Systematic Review and Case Series," in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Oden and Weinschreider are medical students at the Kirk Kerkorian School of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China,” in the International Journal of Public Health in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with his colleague, "Alzheimer’s Disease Services, Staffing, and Outcomes in Adult Day Health Centers," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.