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Timothy Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Andrea Lopez (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on "Development and preliminary validation of the positive consequences of cannabis (PCOC) scale" in the journal Addictive Behaviors. The goal of the study was to develop and test…

Manoj Sharma, Christopher Johansen, Sidath Kapukotuwa (all Social and Behavioral Health), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Bertille Assoumou (Surgery) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of Eating Outside-of-Home Behavior in a Nationally…

Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored a chapter on "The Community-Engaged Research Process" that is featured in a newly published book, Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice. The book shows how community-engaged research makes unique contributions to environmental justice by centering…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "The impact of pyrethroid-pyriproxyfen and pyrethroid-chlorfenapyr long-lasting insecticidal nets on density of primary malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles coluzzii in Benin: a secondary analysis of a cluster randomised controlled trial" in the…

The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ School of Public Health and University of Nevada, Reno's School of Public Health have partnered in committing $10,000 to support joint grant submissions, publications, community-engaged projects, contracts, professional presentations and training sessions. Dean Shawn Gerstenberger (Public Health) and UNR SPH Dean Muge Akpinar-Elci have…

Sidath Kapukotuwa (Social and Behavioral Health), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine; Office of Research), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) presented their poster, "Yoga for osteoarthritis: Current state of interventions," during the American Public…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) presented a poster titled, "Assessing COVID-19 vaccination accessibility in Clark County, Nevada," on Nov. 12 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health) gave a roundtable presentation titled, "An emerging hotspot analysis of COVID-19 in Clark County, Nevada, 2020-2023," on Nov. 14 at the 2023 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America (UPAAA) during the 2023 UPAAA Grand Reunion and Convention. The UPAAA Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Awards are given to senior alumni who have achieved professional distinction and…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Detection of insecticide resistance markers in Anopheles funestus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo using a targeted amplicon sequencing panel" in the journal Scientific Reports. Vector control strategies have been successful in reducing the number…

Prosun Roy (Mechanical Engineering), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), Yi-Tung Chen (Mechanical Engineering), Sajjad Ahmad, Eakalak Khan (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), and Mark Buttner (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on "Pollen Dispersion and â€¦

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled, "Effectiveness of piperonyl butoxide and pyrethroid-treated long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) versus pyrethroid-only LLINs with and without indoor residual spray against malaria infection: third year results of a cluster, randomised controlled, two-by-two…