Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Melissa Marshall, Selam Ayele, Casey Barber, Erin Sheehy, Daidre Gamboa, and Shawn Gerstenberger (all Public Health) published an article on "The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development BUILD Las Vegas 2019 Event: Lessons learned in public health community engagement" in the Journal of Community Health.
The article offers lessons learned…
Jason Flatt (Social & Behavioral Health) is the principal investigator on a project entitled "Engaging the LGBTQIA+ community living with Parkinson's Disease, caregivers and care providers in research," a collaboration between 51ԹϺ and Cleveland Clinic - Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
The proposal was selected for funding for $400,000…
Jose Melendrez, Christopher Johansen, Manoj Sharma, and Amanda Haboush-Deloye (all Public Health) presented on "Examples of Community Based Participatory Research in Action" at the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Institute.
The CBPR Institute was sponsored by the 51ԹϺ School of Public Health, Nevada Minority…
Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) was a presenter at the 18th Confelanyd (Conference of the Latin American Confederation of Nutritionists and Dietitians). One of the major international events for the Latin American and Caribbean community of nutritionists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador,…
Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was invited and presented his research “A Preliminary Study of the Organic and Nonorganic Food Ingredients with Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis” in the NCNR Seminar series of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standard and Technology.
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Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) have published the article, “The Role of Vitamin E in Slowing Down Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Narrative Review” in collaboration with Ram Lakhan of Berea College and Frazier Beatty of Regis College.
The article explores the possible neuroprotective effect of…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published a paper entitled "Plasma Fluorescent Oxidation Products and Bone Mineral Density Among Male Veterans: A Cross-Sectional Study" published in the Journal of Clinical Densitometry.
The study examines the association between fluorescent oxidation products and bone mineral density among male…
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration & Policy) published a paper on "What drives variations in public health and social services expenditures? the association between political fragmentation and local expenditure patterns" in the European Journal of Health Economics.
While it has been suggested that public health and social services spending…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) have edited a research monograph entitled, “COVID-19: Impact on Public Health and Healthcare. Approaches to Decrease the COVID-19 Impact” published by MDPI (Switzerland).
Empirical evidence related to handwashing behavior, mask wearing behavior, sanitizer development,…
Jose Melendrez and Christopher Johansen (both Public Health) and Julie Lucero of UNR presented at the CBPR Institute's first of three sessions.
Sponsored by the School of Public Health, Nevada Minority Health & Equity Coalition, and the UNR Latino Research Center. The first session of the CBPR Institute was "What is …
Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), and Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy) have been awarded a grant of $245,000 from the Minority Research Grant Program of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The research team will use novel computational and clinical strategies, including a deep learning-based risk score…
Erika Marquez (Environmental & Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Childhood Lead Poisoning Associated with Turmeric Spices — Las Vegas, 2019" in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.