Accomplishments: Department of Environmental and Global Health
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) was awarded a $138,544 grant from Texas Tech University to study population dynamics of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the American Southwest.
Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health), Miguel Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) Christopher Johansen and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Md Sohail Akhter (Ph.D. student) coauthored a paper titled 鈥淓xploring Recreational Cannabis Use Cessation Intentions among Adults in the United States Using the Multi-Theory Model鈥
Erika Marquez (Environmental and Global Health) presented collaborative research with Laurencia Bonsu, Kwame Obeng, Totimeh Totimech, Gbadago Gbadago, Louisa Messenger, and Josh Garn (all Public Health) titled 鈥淎ssessment of Heavy Metals in Groundwater and Proximity to Illegal Artisanal Mining Sites in Ghana鈥 at the International Conference on鈥
Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, 鈥淒ecreasing prevalence in youth depressive episodes: Evidence from the 2021-2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,鈥 in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, along with researchers from Kentucky, Florida and Mississippi. The study analyzed major depressive episodes among鈥
Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), Erika Marquez (Environmental and Global Health), Courtney Coughenour (Environmental and Global Health), Amanda Haboush-Deloye (Social and Behavioral Health & Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy), and Selam Ayele (Environmental and Global Health) published "Household insecticide use and pyrethroid鈥
Tim Grigsby (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored a paper titled, 鈥淪uicidal Ideation and Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Marijuana Among U.S. Adults: Findings from the 2021-2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,鈥 in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, along with researchers from California and Mississippi. The study鈥
Lung-Chang Chien, Edom Gelaw (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health), and colleagues published an article titled, 鈥淭racking COVID-19 vaccination barriers over time: a census-tract-level barrier index approach,鈥 in the journal Epidemiology and Infection.
This study developed a dynamic, census-tract-鈥
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Global Health) coauthored an article titled, 鈥淭he effectiveness of long-lasting spatial repellent emanators against malaria in humanitarian crisis settings in northern Nigeria: a two-arm pragmatic, open-label, controlled trial,鈥 in The Lancet鈥檚 Infectious Diseases journal, in association with researchers from鈥
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health) and colleagues published an article on "Brown Carbon Optical Variability in US Urban Aerosols Revealed by an Enhanced Spectral/Mass Balance Approach" in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
Light absorption by brown carbon (BrC) represents a major uncertainty in鈥
Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Global Health) and colleagues published an article on "Mild Thermal Inactivation Kinetics of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Sugarcane Juice: Model Validation under Dilution and Acidification Conditions" in the journal Food and Bioprocess Technology.
Sugarcane juice represents one of the freshly鈥
Chia-Liang (Leo) Dai (Teaching and Learning) co-authored an article with colleagues Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), and Dr. Yin Guo, Dr. Sharma, and student Jacquelyn Rodriguez (all Public Health). The article, "Evidence-based Review of Yoga Interventions for Adolescent Health and Well-being in US鈥
Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Ph.D. student Karen Lorena Figueroa Chilito coauthored an article titled, 鈥淓valuating a novel multi-species vector control tool for humanitarian crises: the efficacy of attractive targeted sugar baits among forcibly displaced populations in Northern Nigeria,鈥 in the journal BMC Medicine鈥