Accomplishments: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored an article titled, "Influence of neighborhood social and natural environment on prostate tumor histology in a cohort of male health professionals" in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Adverse neighborhood social and natural (greenspace) environments may contribute to prostate cancer…
Kaelia Saniatan (graduate research assistant), Smriti Neupane (graduate research assistant), Gabriela Buccini (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article titled: "Socio-demographic, maternal, and infant characteristics associated with pacifier use among six-months old infants in Clark…
Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was the lead author of "Association of Integrating Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care at Federally Qualified Health Centers With Utilization and Follow-up Care" published in the JAMA Network Open. The primary objective was to examine the association of a comprehensive mental health integration…
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…
Sanae El Ibrahimi (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and colleagues from Comagine Health (Michelle A. Hendricks), Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Scott G. Weiner, Michael A. Fischer), and Brandeis University (Grant Ritter) recently published a study. The study used several linked Oregon health datasets to investigate the risk of opioid overdose for…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Racial Disparity in Disruption to Basic Needs Among Medicare Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic," in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). The authors' primary objective was to…
Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published a paper titled, "Early-life exposure to a mixture of organophosphate esters and child behavior" in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health.
Organophosphate esters (OPEs), widely used as flame retardants and plasticizers for commercial and residential purposes, are…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) authored a paper titled, "Effect of Transmission and Vaccination on Time to Dominance of Emerging Viral Strains: A Simulation-Based Studyb" in the Special Issue: Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling of the journal Microorganisms.
The study uses a factorial treatment design in a…
Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published a paper titled, "Cognitive and Clinical Characteristics of Patients With Limbic Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy" in the journal Neurology.
The primary aim of this study was to elucidate the clinical and cognitive differences at baseline between patients with autopsy confirmed…
Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a paper titled, "Impacts on Teamwork Performance for an Engineering Capstone in Emergency Remote Teaching," published in the Journal of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
The researchers analyzed how teamwork performance was impacted for engineering…
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…
Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored an article titled, "Cancer Disparities among Pacific Islanders: A Review of Sociocultural Determinants of Health in the Micronesian Region," in the journal Cancers.
Micronesia is an ethnogeographic region within the continent of Oceania that represents an underserved area of the…