Accomplishments: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Miguel Fudolig and Pamela Pioquinto (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently published an article titled "Association between acculturation, muscle dysmorphia symptomatology, and anabolic-androgenic steroid use ideation in Filipino American male university students: A pilot study" in the journal Performance Enhancement and Health. Their…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article with colleagues from Cal Poly and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln titled "Can You See The Change? Visual Perception in Change Point Analysis" in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Their research tests the ability of humans to detect changes in means for…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Epigenetic signatures of maternal-fetal health: insights from cord blood and placenta," in the journal Epigenetics, along with researchers from Rhode Island, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The paper examined maternal-fetal placental health when relying on…
Srishti Awasthi, Maryam Zolfaghari Dehkharghani (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled "Emergence to dominance: Estimating time to dominance of SARS-CoV-2 variants using nonlinear statistical models" in the journal PLOS ONE. Their research work models the emergence of…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Top comorbidities in osteoporotic fracture patients in a northeast population in China," in the journal BMC Public Health, along with researchers from China. The paper examined the pattern of comorbidity in fracture patients and non-fracture individuals.
Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), along with colleagues from the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and Pescare Hospital, Italy, published the paper, "Dynamic neurocognitive adaptation: A follow-up exposome investigation in aging," in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, “Gestational PBDE concentrations and executive function in adolescents with self- and caregiver-report: The HOME study," in the journal Environmental Research, along with researchers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island, Georgia and Canada. The paper studied the adverse…