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Manoj Sharma, MBBS, Ph.D., MCHES®
Professor
Biography
Manoj Sharma, MBBS, Ph.D., MCHES®, is a tenured Professor and the past Founding Chair of the Social and Behavioral Health Department in the School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor in the Internal Medicine Department. He is a public health physician and educator with a medical degree from the University of Delhi and a doctorate in Preventive Medicine (Public Health) from The Ohio State University. He is also a master certified health education specialist from the National Commission on Health Education Credentialing.
In his career, spanning over 37 years, he has trained/taught more than 6,000 health professionals at 13 national and international universities working full-time or part-time. He is a prolific researcher and, as of August 2025, has published 17 books, over 460 peer-reviewed research articles, and over 500 other publications (h-index 64, i-10 index over 300, and over 25,000 citations). He had also secured funding for more than $10 million.
Sharma is ranked in the top 1 percent of scientists globally from 176 subfields and the top 400 in public health in the Elsevier ranking. In ScholarGPS ranking (that ranks over 29 million scientists globally) he is ranked 20th in stress management and 71st in general public health. He has been awarded several prestigious honors including the American Public Health Association’s Lyndon Haviland Mentoring Award, PHEHP Distinguished Career Award, J. Mayhew Derryberry Award, ICTHP Impact Award, Ohio State University’s William R. Gemma Distinguished Alumnus Award, OSU College of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, and UNLV’s Harry Reid Silver State Award, Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award, Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award, Outstanding Graduate Faculty Leadership Award among others.
Sharma is currently recruiting graduate master's and Ph.D. students. Please send your CV and interests by email: manoj.sharma@unlv.edu
Selected Publications
Please visit his Google Scholar page for a near complete list.
Selected Recent Books
- Sharma, M., & Branscum, P. (in press). Introduction to community and public health. (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN# awaited. 2nd ed. translated into Korean. ISBN 978-89-5629-640-1.
- Romas, J. A., & Sharma, M. (in press). Practical stress management. A comprehensive workbook. (9th ed.). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press (Elsevier). ISBN# 978-0-443-367739-7.
- Sharma, M., & Lakhan R. (2024). Effective approaches to global health issues. Cambridge, MA: Elsevier. ISBN#978-443-29098-5.
- Sharma, M. & Petosa, R. L. (2023). Evaluation and measurement in health promotion. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN# 978-1-119-90866-1
- Sharma, M. (2022). Theoretical foundations of health education and health promotion. (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett. ISBN# 978-1284208627.
- Sharma, M., & Branscum, P. (2021). Foundations of mental health promotion. (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett. ISBN# 978-128-41-99758.
Selected Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Kapukotuwa, S., * Batra, K., Johansen, C., & Sharma, M. (2025). Testing the efficacy of RESPONSIBLEPLAY©: A multi-theory model (MTM)-based intervention protocol for promoting responsible gambling among college students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22, 858. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22060858
- Sharma, M., Akhter, M. S., * Roy, S., * & Srejon, R. * (2025). Future issues in global health: Challenges and conundrums. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(3), 325. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22030325
- Sharma, M., Johansen, C., Fudolig, M., Dai, C-L., Kapukotuwa, S., * Davlos, L., * & Bonsu, L.* (2024). Theory-based antecedents of breastfeeding among pregnant women in the United States. Health Promotion Perspectives, 14(1), 70-79. https://hpp.tbzmed.ac.ir/Article/hpp-42599
- Sharma, M., Johansen, C., Batra, R., * Dai, C-L., Kapukotuwa, S., * Assoumou, B. & Batra, K. (2024). Explaining the correlates of eating outside-of-home behavior in a nationally representative US sample using the multi-theory model of health behavior change: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21, 115. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010115
- Nerida, T. M., * Sharma, M., Labus, B., Marquez, E., Dai, C.-L. (2023). COVID-19 vaccine acceptance behavior among Hispanics/Latinxs in Nevada: A theory-based analysis. Healthcare, 11, 688. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050688
- Sharma, M., Johansen, C., Batra, K., Dai, C., Batra, R., * Hayes, T., & Singh, A. (2023). Using the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change to explain the seeking of stool-based tests for colorectal cancer screening. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 6553. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166553