Assistant professor Bonhak Koo (Hospitality) and his coauthors received the Best Paper Award at the GLOTECH 2026 Conference for their paper, “Hospitality’s Empathic Friend: How an Emotional Support AI Chatbot Can Be Used for Early Detection and Intervention for Employees’ Psychological Distress.” This interdisciplinary research was conducted in…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored and published a study "State-level burden of chronic respiratory diseases in the USA, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023" in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Authors emphasized that State-level policy environments, including fiscal and preventive…

Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh, Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine), along with their collaborators from the University of California, San Francisco and Creighton University School of Medicine, published "Characteristics and Success of Internal Medicine Applicants to Subspecialty Fellowships" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Drawing on…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored a study, "Global, regional, and national prevalence of second-hand smoke and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023," published in The Lancet Public Health. The first dedicated analysis of second-hand smoke as a…

Five years of evidence deliver a reassuring message: GLP-1 medicines are not linked to major psychiatric harm. Research co-authored by Kavita Batra (Medicine), Jagdish Khubchandani from New Mexico State University, and colleagues found no increased risk of suicidal thoughts, depression, or other serious psychiatric outcomes in the general treated…

Grants and Research Director Noehealani Antolin (Medicine) served as an invited panelist at the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Annual Conference, held August 29–September 2, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Antolin was one of five panelists in the session "Riding Safe: Electric Bikes, Scooters and the Road Ahead," which examined how…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Dr. Jagdish Khubchandani of New Mexico State University were featured in Medical Xpress for their research on the psychiatric safety of GLP-1 receptor agonists. Their study found no evidence of increased serious psychiatric harm but stressed individualized screening and closer monitoring of patients with existing mental…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) published “Comparing Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Added to Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis with Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis Alone on Pain, Trunk Control, and Respiratory Function in Chronic Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial” in Bioengineering. Batra is an interdisciplinary…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) published “Global, Regional, and National Burden of Myocarditis and Its Impairment, 1990–2023” in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The study found that although age-adjusted mortality and disability declined, the absolute burden increased because of population growth and aging, with persistent disparities…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Second-hand Smoke Collaborators titled “Global, regional, and national prevalence of second-hand smoke and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Feasibility and Acceptability of Menstrual Cups for Addressing Period Poverty in Rural India: A Pilot Study in Spiti Valley” along with coauthors from the University of Utah in the journal Advances in Medicine, Psychology and Public Health (AMPPH). In Spiti Valley,…

Lina R. Nih (Brain Health) and Seungman Park (Mechanical Engineering) have co-authored an article entitled “Cellular Viscous Properties in Senescence: An Emerging Biophysical Perspective and Potential Biomarker,” published in Ageing Research Reviews. This article explores changes in cellular viscosity during aging and their potential use as a…