Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Differential impact of dual-active ingredient long-lasting insecticidal nets on primary malaria vectors: a secondary analysis of a 3-year, single-blind, cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Tanzania" in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.
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In the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, interdisciplinary 51ԹϺ 'NIHAN' and UNR Sanford Center ICECAP project teams — Sidkazem Taghva, Mingon Kang (Computer Science); Jay Shen, Pearl Kim, Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration & Policy; Public Health), Laurie Kim, Ji Yoo (Medicine) — were invited to present…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and colleagues published an article on "Metal contents and size distributions of brake and tire wear particles dispersed in the near-road environment" in the journal Science of The Total Environment.
This study monitored air quality at near-road environments, focusing on…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) received a grant of $449, 611 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s “National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved” administered through the Nevada State Health and Human Services Department. He is the…
Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) recently published with colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Discordance in chromosomal and self-reported sex in the UK Biobank: Implications for transgender- and intersex-inclusive data collection. We found about 200 individuals in UKBiobank with sex discordance…
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), Prosun Roy, Yi-Tung Chen (both Mechanical Engineering), and their colleagues published an article on "High time-resolution fenceline air quality sensing and dispersion modeling for environmental justice-centered source attribution " in the journal …
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a paper entitled, “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a systematic review of cognitive determinants,” in the journal, Health Promotion Perspectives (Impact Factor 3.18) with authors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The article highlighted initiation and maintenance…
Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy) received a $1.99 million grant from the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection to fund a "NVCLPPP Building Local Capacity" project.
With this funding, the project will implement the following strategies:…
Amanda Haboush-Deloye and M. Amaris Knight (both Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy) published a paper on "Healthy Foods in Convenience Stores: Benefits, Barriers, and Best Practices" in the journal Health Promotion Practice.
This study aimed to identify which healthy foods consumers would like to see offered in convenience…
Kaelia Saniatan (graduate research assistant), Smriti Neupane (graduate research assistant), Gabriela Buccini (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article titled: "Socio-demographic, maternal, and infant characteristics associated with pacifier use among six-months old infants in Clark…
Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was the lead author of "Association of Integrating Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care at Federally Qualified Health Centers With Utilization and Follow-up Care" published in the JAMA Network Open. The primary objective was to examine the association of a comprehensive mental health integration…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper on "Efficacy of Pyrethroid–Pyriproxyfen and Pyrethroid–Chlorfenapyr Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) for the Control of Non-Anopheles Mosquitoes: Secondary Analysis from a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (cRCT)" in the journal Insects.
Failure to control…