Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Barbara Lewis (Public Health) gave a presentation on Family Advisory Councils to the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation, titled Embedding Your Voice in Hospital Care Delivery.
Vidhani S. Goel (Public Health) was awarded the Best Poster Presentation in Health & Natural Sciences & Engineering at the Office of Undergraduate Research Spring 2026 Symposium.
An undergraduate researcher with an extensive scholarly record, she has authored nearly 15 publications and delivered close to 50 research presentations, and鈥
Miguel Antonio Fudolig (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Pamela Pioquinto (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Marijo Villano (Counseling and Psychological Services) published a research article titled, "Identifying Profiles of Stressors and Stress Management Strategies in Filipinos: A Secondary Analysis," in Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) has been awarded the 2025 Wiley Top Cited Article Award for 鈥淚nvestigating perceived core disaster competencies of nurses in Iran: A case study of northwest hospitals,鈥 which he coauthored in 2024 in Public Health Nursing (Cite Score 3.3, Impact Factor 1.3, Acceptance Rate 4%).
Barbara Lewis (Public Health) authored an article published by the Governance Institute's Board Room Press titled, "Patient and Family Advisory Councils: Saving Money, Improving Safety, and Enhancing the Patient Experience."
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, 鈥淕lobal, regional and national burden of ischemic heart disease attributable to suboptimal diet, 1990鈥2023: A Global Burden of Disease study,鈥 in collaboration with GBD 2023 IHD and Dietary Risk Factor Collaborators in the鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, 鈥淎pplication of the multi-theory model to determine predictors of initiating and sustaining stress management behaviors in undergraduate college students,鈥 in the Journal of Public Health in the Deep South in collaboration with coauthors from the鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, 鈥淕lobal, regional, and national burden of meningitis, its risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990鈥2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,鈥 in the journal,The Lancet Neurology (impact factor: 45.5).鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) reached the milestone of having published 500 peer-reviewed journal articles. His first peer-reviewed research article was published in 1994, based on his thesis. This gives him an average of publishing 15 articles per year in his research career. However, before 1994, he had a career鈥
Farhana Khandoker and Manoj Sharma (both Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled 鈥淎pplying the multi-theory model of health behavior change to examine depression among adults with type 2 diabetes,鈥 in the journal Healthcare (Impact factor 2.7).
The article reified the framework of Sharma鈥檚 multi-theory model (MTM) of health鈥
Farhana Khandoker (Public Health) published 鈥淎pplying the Multi-Theory Model of Health Behavior Change to Examine Depression Among U.S. Adults with Diagnosed Diabetes,鈥 a theory-driven, cross-sectional study analyzing nationally representative 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data.
Guided by the Multi-Theory Model of Health鈥
Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Corporate Governance and Workplace Mental Health Practices: The Mediating Role of Structured Occupational Safety and Health Engagement," which was published in Safety and Health at Work. The study conducted a serial mediation analysis to evaluate whether occupational safety and health鈥