Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Exploring barriers to formal mental health help-seeking among Iranian adolescent girls: A qualitative study using the PRECEDE model,” in the International Journal of Adolescence and Youth (5-year Impact factor 3.8) with coauthors from Shiraz University of…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health), alongside the GBD 2021 Asthma and Allergic Diseases Collaborators, published a study in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine on the global burden of asthma and atopic dermatitis (1990–2021) with projections to 2050. While total cases are expected to rise, age-standardized prevalence rates should…
Kimberly Jones-Rudolph, Wilfredo Lacro, Larry Hurst, and Jay Shen (all Healthcare Administration and Policy) have published a paper, "Organizational Characteristics Associated with Addressing Community Social Determinants of Health in U.S. Hospitals: A National Perspective," in Hospitals. Jones-Rudolph, Lacro, and Hurst are doctoral…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with researchers from Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Canada, coauthored a paper titled, “Prenatal PFAS exposures and cardiometabolic health in middle childhood in the MIREC cohort," in the journal Environmental Research. The paper examined prenatal exposure to…
Barbara Lewis (Public Health) presented her research on "Patient and Family Advisory Councils" to the Colorado Hospital Association.
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article association with coauthors from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences titled, “The effects of saffron supplementation on inflammatory factors and clinical outcomes in sepsis patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU): Study protocol for a double-blind…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article association with coauthors from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences titled, “The effects of concurrent alpha-linolenic acid, L-carnitine supplementation on clinical symptoms, mental health, and quality of life in women with migraine: A randomized, triple-…
Megan R. Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Brian Woods (Center for Business and Economic Research) composed an expert panel for a special collaborative episode of Vegas PBS's Nevada Week and KNPR's State of Nevada that looked back at the COVID-19…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article as a senior collaborator in the GBD 2021 Adolescent BMI Collaborators Group titled, “Global, regional, and national prevalence of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: A forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article as a senior collaborator in the GBD 2021 Adult BMI Collaborators Group titled, “Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: A forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” in The…
Ph.D. student Laurencia Bonsu (Global and Environmental Health) has received the 51ԹϺ Foundation Board of Trustees Fellowship. The fellowship is granted over four semesters to doctoral students in the final two years of their program. Bonsu’s research focuses on lead contamination in water sources caused by illegal mining in Ghana. During her…
Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health), Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Social and Behavioral Health), Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Binita Adhikari (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled “Factors Associated with Hospital Length of Stay and Intensive Care Utilization Among Pediatric COVID-19 Patients…