Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Asma Awan, Timothy Grigsby, and Christopher Johansen, (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health and Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine) presented a poster titled, "Explaining the Correlates of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Visual…
Jace Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health), recently co-edited a special issue titled, “Promoting Cognitive Health in LGBTQIA+ Clinical Neuropsychology,” with Anthony Correro II. This special issue, published in The Clinical Neuropsychologist, delves into key research areas in LGBTQIA+ clinical neuropsychology. The research focuses…
Asma Awan, Sharmistha Roy, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) recently published a paper, "Occupational stress and burnout among physicians in the United States: Challenges and interventions for a global health crisis," in the journal GIPMEL . The article explained that acute and chronic stress in physicians,…
Jace Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published a paper, "An especially hidden population: sexual and gender minority dementia caregivers," with colleagues in the Alzheimer's & Dementia journal. This study found that sexual and gender minority caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), Lung-Chang Chien, Chad Cross, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published an article on "Towards optimization of community vulnerability indices for COVID-19 prevalence" in the journal BMC Public Health.
In this study the team established a practical approach to…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Effects of Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis supplementation on intestinal permeability, antioxidant and inflammatory markers, quality of life and disease severity in patients with constipated-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: A randomized double‑…
Anam Fatima and Asma Awan (both Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a poster titled, "Mentoring and Training the Entry-Level Public Health Workforce on Experiential Learning in an Academic Setting" at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Annual Conference held…
Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) qualified as a Board Certified Entomologist (BCE) with a specialty credential in Medical & Veterinary Entomology. The BCE highlights professionals who work in increasingly complex entomological disciplines where credentialing provides assurance of training and expertise. The specialty…
Rupam Mitra (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a poster titled, “Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) practices and their association with the nutritional status of adolescent girls in the Rohingya community in Bangladesh" at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a poster titled, “A qualitative interpretive approach to examine different aspects of experiential learning in public health students" at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Annual Conference held at Long Beach,…
Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research on "Patient and Family Advisory Councils" to the Arkansas Hospital Association.
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has been ranked 20th globally in Stress Management in his career in the database, Scholar GPS, which ranks over 29 million scientists. Sharma is known for the books, Practical Stress Management (8th ed.), Introspective Meditation for Complete Contentment (Santosha) (2nd ed.),…