Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Malcolm Ahlo (Southern Nevada Health District), Kacie Washburn (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article titled, "…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with opioid addiction helping behaviour in tri-state Appalachian counties: Application of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model–cross-sectional analysis,” in the journal, BMJ Open (Impact Factor: 3.007), in…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article entitled, “Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics in type 1 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of clinical trials,” in the journal, Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews (Impact Factor: 8.128) in association with colleagues from Ishafan…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) received a grant of $449, 611 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s “National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved” administered through the Nevada State Health and Human Services Department. He is the…

Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Discordance in chromosomal and self-reported sex in the UK Biobank: Implications for transgender- and intersex-inclusive data collection. We found about 200 individuals in UKBiobank with sex discordance…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a paper entitled, “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a systematic review of cognitive determinants,” in the journal, Health Promotion Perspectives (Impact Factor 3.18) with authors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The article highlighted initiation and maintenance…

Kaelia Saniatan (graduate research assistant), Smriti Neupane (graduate research assistant), Gabriela Buccini (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article titled: "Socio-demographic, maternal, and infant characteristics associated with pacifier use among six-months old infants in Clark…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented an oral presentation titled, “Consumer Satisfaction Survey for a COVID-19 Health Program Evaluation: The RQFSM Framework for Process Evaluation,” at the International Aegean Conferences Social Sciences and Humanities – VII held in…

Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “Community-based participatory evaluation of public health initiatives: a strategic gap analysis using the RQFSM (reach, quality, fidelity, satisfaction, management) framework,” at the 7th International Conference…

Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra,  Anita Chatterjee, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented an oral presentation entitled, "Utilizing community-based participatory research based on the RQFSM model for evaluating health disparity reduction efforts in rural Nevada, 2021-2022," at the Rural…

Tim Grigsby, Andrea Lopez (both Social and Behavioral Health), and colleagues authored a manuscript titled, "A Scoping Review of Risk and Protective Factors for Negative Cannabis Use Consequences" in the journal Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment.  Numerous reviews have examined risk and protective factors for alcohol-related negative…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) published a research article titled, "State Protection Alignment Index as a Measure of Structural Stigma's Impact on the Mental Health of Sexual…