Doctoral student, Amanda Castelo Saragosa, along with Jason Flatt and Gabriela Buccini (all Social and Behavioral Health) published: Using concept mapping to co-create implementation strategies to address maternal-child food insecurity during the first 1,000 days of life. This peer-reviewed publication showcases the EARN-FS project and describes…

Cristina Hernandez (Social and Behavioral Health) recently presented, "A novel model of scholarship program to increase lactation workforce in Nevada," at the 2025 annual American Public Health Association (APHA) in Washington, D.C. This presentation is a culmination of the Nevada Lactation Hub Scholarship program led by Gabriela Buccini and Rikki…

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-…

Mohammad Sohail Akhter (Social and Behavioral Health) was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for presenting innovative and cutting-edge research by the Oral Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) at their annual meeting. The presentation titled, “Bibliometric analysis to assess global health research on Periodontal…

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…

Asma Awan, Md. Sohail Akhter, Sharmistha Roy, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented a poster titled, "Evaluation of school-based mental health interventions: A systematic review on global perspectives of mixed methods interventions” at the 99th Annual School Health Conference of American School Health Association, held on…

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…

Jalal Uddin (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) and Jason D. Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently co-authored an article published in Healthcare (MDPI). The study, “Prevalence and Predictors of Musculoskeletal Pain Among Pregnant Women: A Cross-Sectional Study,” examined the burden of musculoskeletal pain among pregnant women in Bangladesh…

Andrew Thomas Reyes (Nursing), Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published a paper in the Issues in Mental Health Nursing journal titled, “Racial Differences in Trauma Outcomes After a Mindfulness App Intervention in Frontline Nurses: A Secondary Data Analysis.”

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…