Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Donica' Beckett, Philip Danquah, Johanna Andrews, Melva Thompson-Robinson, and Carolee Dodge Francis
Donica' Beckett (Environmental and Occupational Health); Philip Danquah, Johanna Andrews, and Melva Thompson-Robinson (all Center for Health Disparities Research), and Carolee Dodge Francis (American Indian Research and Education Center) presented a scientific poster at the 2019 National HIV Prevention Conference titled "Investigating…
Courtney Coughenour, Jennifer Pharr, Maxim Gakh, Sheila Clark, and Prescott Cheong (all Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published "A Qualitative Study on Parental and Community Stakeholder Views of the Link between Full-Day Kindergarten and Health in Southern Nevada" in the journal Children. Cheong is an '18 alumnus of…
Asma Tahir (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Joseph Jean (Master of Public Health student) recently presented their work, "Annual Variation Among Tree Pollen in Las Vegas from 2015-2018" during the 2019 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology conference Feb. 22-24 in San Fancisco.
The study was published in the Journal…
Jennifer R. Pharr, Axenya Kachen and Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article in the Journal of Community Health on "Health Disparities Among Sexual Gender Minority Women in the United States: A Population-Based Study."
The purpose of the study was to understand disparities in access to…
John O. Olawepo and L.-W. Antony Chen (both Environmental and Occupational Health) recently published an article on the "Health Benefits from Upgrading Public Buses for Cleaner Air: A Case Study of Clark County, Nevada and the United States." As the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) has been transitioning from diesel to…
Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored and published a paper, "Association of Organic Solvents and Occupational Noise on Hearing Loss and Tinnitus among Adults in the U.S., 1999–2004" in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. This study examined the association of organic…
Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an "Analysis of Self-Reported Walking for Transit in a Sprawling Urban Metropolitan Area in the Western U.S." that was published in a special issue of Sustainability, focused on urban sprawl and sustainability.
The design of the Las Vegas community is so…
Melva Thompson-Robinson and Carolee Dodge Francis (Environmental and Occupational Health), and doctoral student Philip Danquah were notable participants at the 2019 HIV Next Generation Conference at UCLA's Center for HIV identification, Prevention and Treatment Services. The theme was "Addressing Disparities in HIV and Comorbidities…
Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored "Geospatial Analysis of Refugee Access to Primary Care Physicians in San Antonio, Texas," which appeared in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. This study investigated refugee access to primary care physicians (PCP) in San Antonio and used geographic information systems…
Joshua Jensen (Environmental and Occupational Health) recently presented his thesis, "Delayed Lag Relationship Between Asthma Related In Patient Hospitalization and Air Pollution in the Las Vegas Valley," at the 2018 American Public Health Association annual meeting in San Diego under the supervision of Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and…
Tiffiany Howard (Political Science), Mary-Ann Winkelmes (Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs), and Marya Shegog (Environmental and Occupational Health) are the authors of "Transparency Teaching in the Virtual Classroom: Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Transparency Teaching Methods with Online Learning" which…
Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Occupational Health) received a one-year, $1.2M award from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to conduct molecular biological environmental monitoring.