Accomplishments: Department of Social and Behavioral Health
Blessing Imade; Asma Awan; and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), presented a talk “Acupuncture as an alternative therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among adults: A comprehensive review” at the American Public Health Association 2024 Annual Meeting on October 27, 2024, in Minneapolis,…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented a poster, “Integration of public health informatics dashboard into State Systems Development Initiative (SSDI): A quality improvement initiative for marginalized youth healthcare," on the digital platform at the American Public Health Association 2024 Annual Meeting (…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was featured in a nationwide Podcast titled, “Yoga: The Eight Limbs and Treatment of Depression, Anxiety, and Mental Health of Cancer Patients,” in the forum THERAPY+. Sharma explained about yoga and his research in mental health in this podcast.
Asma Awan; Ana Daniela Gonzalez; Md. Sohail Akhter; Refat Srejon; Abena Owusu; Susan Dakwa; Blessing Imade; Salim Dweck; Sidath Kapukotuwa; and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), presented a talk, "Enhancing health equity from a mixed methods approach of a 3-year process evaluation program to address health disparities in Nevada” at…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has been awarded the 2024 Distinguished Career Award by the Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP) Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) at their Annual Meeting held this year in Minneapolis. This Award is bestowed upon public health leaders in…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) co-presented 27 papers at the American Public Health Association’s 152nd Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN from October 27 to October 30. Some topics include acupuncture for PTSD, process evaluation of a health disparity reduction program in Nevada, community-based participatory…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was interviewed by Carolyn Beeler of the NPR News in the program, "The World," which was broadcasted on October 25. The interview was about the growing epidemic of gambling all over the world. Sharma shared his perspectives about individual-level and policy/environmental level…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “The advent of the fourth-generation multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change in health promotion research” at the World Summit on Public Health and Health Sciences held in Bern, Switzerland held between October 14 -16. The presentation was about the…
Manoj Sharma, Asma Awan, Sidath Kapukotuwa (all in Social and Behavioral Health), and Amar Kanekar from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have authored a chapter titled “Fourth-Generation Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change. Genesis, Evidence, and Potential Applications” in the "Handbook of Concepts in Health, Health…
Sohail Akther, Asma Awan, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper titled, “A Scoping Review of Water-based Exercise Interventions for Breast Cancer Survivors” at the International Colosseum of Scientific Research and Innovation Congress in Italy on October 13. Akhter and Awan are graduate students.
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has published a book titled, “Effective Approaches to Global Health Issues” along with Ram Lakhan of Berea College published by Academic Press (Elsevier) (ISBN# 978-0-443-29098-5). A book launch party is planned for Monday, October 21, 2024, between 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in Room GTW…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health in Sexual and Gender Minoritized Adults: Comparing Stress Accumulation and Stress Sensitization Models” in the journal LGBT Health, in association with researchers from Texas, North Carolina and…