Iwimbong Kum Ghabowen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy; Center for Health Disparities Research), and Xan Goodman (University Libraries) recently published a paper, "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Financial Impact of 30-Day Readmissions for Selected Medical Conditions: A…

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy, Center for Health Disparities Research) recently co-authored a paper, "Smoking Cessation and Pancreatic Cancer Risk in Individuals With Prediabetes and Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study," in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Zahra Mojtahedi, Pearl Kim, and Yonsu Kim (all Healthcare Administration and Policy),  Ji Yoo (Medicine), Jay Shen (Center for Health Disparities and Research, Healthcare Administration and Policy) published a paper, "Changes in Characteristics of Inpatient Respiratory Conditions from 2019 to 2021 (before and during the COVID-19…

Jay Shen (Center for Health Disparities Research; Healthcare Administration and Policy) is currently leading an interdisciplinary team to conduct the COVID-19 Health Disparity Assessment and Healthcare Equity Modeling project, funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention through the Southern Nevada Health District, with a total…

Zahra Mojtahedi (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health), Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Parsa Khawari (Public Health), Hailey Ephrem (Public Health), and Jay Shen (Center for Health Disparities Research, Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published a paper titled, "…

Melva Thompson-Robinson and Johanna Adlam (both Center for Health Disparities Research) published a paper on "COVID-19 and Communities of Color: Understanding the Impact of Racism on Public Health" in the Nevada Journal of Public Health. In light of the recent declarations of racism as a public health crisis, the push to address the…

Melva Thompson-Robinson, Johanna E. Andrews, Tristesse Burton (all Center for Health Disparities Research) and Kristina Ricker-Boles (Public Health), along with colleagues at other institutions, have a book chapter published in Researching in the Age of COVID-19, Volume III: Creativity and Ethics. This book explores dimensions of…

Erika Marquez (Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy) and Melva Thompson-Robinson (Center for Health Disparities Research) led a team that published the Environmental Scan of Region IX: An Access to Health Care Report , which takes a look at factors that promote and impede health equity. It is the first of its kind to examine issues…

Selam Ayele (Public Health) and Melva Thompson-Robinson, and Johanna Andrews (both Center for Health Disparities Research), along with Carolee Dodge Francis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently published an article, "Factors Associated with Mental Health Service Utilization Among Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees" in the Journal of…

Philip Danquah, Donica' Beckett, Johanna Andrews, and Melva Thompson-Robinson (all Center for Health Disparities Research and department of environmental and occupational health) and Carolee Dodge Francis (American Indian Research and Education Center and department of environmental and occupational health) made presentations at the American…

Donica' Beckett (Environmental and Occupational Health); Philip Danquah, Johanna Andrews, and Melva Thompson-Robinson (all Center for Health Disparities Research), and Carolee Dodge Francis (American Indian Research and Education Center) presented a scientific poster at the 2019 National HIV Prevention Conference titled "Investigating…

Melva Thompson-Robinson (Center for Health Disparities Research and School of Community Health Sciences) has been elected co-chair of the Pacific and Southwest Regional Health Equity Council. This council covers Region IX of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which includes Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, California, and the Pacific…