Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health), Malcolm Ahlo (Southern Nevada Health District), Kacie Washburn (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Shawn Gerstenberger (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article titled, "…
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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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…
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 …
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:…
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.
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Emylia Terry (Environmental and Occupational Health) has been selected to receive the President's 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2023-24.
The President’s 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships are funded by gifts to the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Foundation by the Frank Koch Living Trust for the research support of doctoral students. The…
Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health) was invited to present her book chapter, "Transgender Sports Bans are a Human Rights Issue," during the virtual Human Rights in Sports Conference on April 5.
Pharr presented on the impact of transgender sports bans on transgender women athletes and the LGBTQ+ community. She discussed rights…
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published a paper titled, "Identification of two insecticide resistance markers in Ethiopian Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes using a multiplex amplicon sequencing assay," in the journal Scientific Reports.
The expansion of Anopheles stephensi poses a significant threat to malaria control…
Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) published a research article titled, "State Protection Alignment Index as a Measure of Structural Stigma's Impact on the Mental Health of Sexual…
Zahra Mojtahedi (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health), Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Parsa Khawari (Public Health), Hailey Ephrem (Public Health), and Jay Shen (Center for Health Disparities Research, Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published a paper titled, "…
Chad Cross, Brianna Rivera (both Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Francisco Sy (Environmental and Occupational Health) published a paper titled, "Descriptive Epidemiological Analysis of Cestode Infections in Nevada: Characterizing Patients and Analyzing Trends using Patient Utilization Records, 2013-2019," in the Nevada Journal of Public…