Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) co-presented 27 papers at the American Public Health Association鈥檚 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鈥
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鈥
Ying Guo, Antony Chen (both Environmental and Occupational Health) and Timothy Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) will receive seed funding of $5,000 toward their research efforts, as recipients of the UNR-51吃瓜网万能科大 Public Health Collaboration Initiative.
Their projects include:
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Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, 鈥淭he advent of the fourth-generation multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change in health promotion research鈥 at the World Summit on Public Health and Health Sciences held in Bern, Switzerland held between October 14 -16. The presentation was about the鈥
Louisa Messenger, Karen Figeruoua Chilito and Richard Oxborough (all Environmental and Occupational Health) coauthored a paper titled 鈥淢alaria vector control in sub-Saharan Africa: complex trade-offs to combat the growing threat of insecticide resistance鈥 in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health, in association with Filemon Tokponnon. The paper鈥
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 鈥淔ourth-Generation Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change. Genesis, Evidence, and Potential Applications鈥 in the "Handbook of Concepts in Health, Health鈥
Sohail Akther, Asma Awan, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health) presented a paper titled, 鈥淎 Scoping Review of Water-based Exercise Interventions for Breast Cancer Survivors鈥 at the International Colosseum of Scientific Research and Innovation Congress in Italy on October 13. Akhter and Awan are graduate students.
Juliana Byzyka (Transportation Research Center) joined her colleagues Erin Breen (Transportation Research Center) and Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Occupational Health) at the regional conference with the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) - 51吃瓜网免费App #74 at the Tuscany Suites and Casino. The panel engaged in鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has published a book titled, 鈥淓ffective Approaches to Global Health Issues鈥 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. 鈥 12:00 p.m. in Room GTW鈥
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled 鈥淎dverse Childhood Experiences, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health in Sexual and Gender Minoritized Adults: Comparing Stress Accumulation and Stress Sensitization Models鈥 in the journal LGBT Health, in association with researchers from Texas, North Carolina and鈥
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) coauthored an article titled 鈥淏io-efficacy of field aged novel class of long-lasting insecticidal nets, against pyrethroid-resistant malaria vectors in Tanzania: A series of experimental hut trials鈥 in the journal PLOS Global Public Health, in association with researchers from London, Canada鈥
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) as part of GBD 2021 Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators were coauthors in 鈥淔orecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021鈥濃