Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual oral paper titled, 鈥淭he genesis of Perfection Quotient (PQ) in health promotion research,鈥 at the 4th International Congress on Behavioral & Social Science Research (ICBSSR 2026) held in Rome, Italy. Perfection Quotient is a novel behavioral model developed by鈥
Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored "Association of age at pancreatic cancer diagnosis with smoking and drinking: A hospital-based and meta-analysis study," which was published in Advances in Digestive Medicine. The study conducted two analyses: First, a systematic review used meta-analysis to examine the association鈥
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Roy (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, 鈥淢ultilevel mental health determinants among college students: A social ecological scoping review,鈥 in the journal, Mental Health & Prevention (Impact factor鈥
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ji Won Yoo (Internal Medicine), Chris Cochran (Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article "Dynamic associations of neighborhood social and physical environment with ED visits for asthma: A spatial change score analysis" in Journal鈥
Nicole DeVille (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) coauthored a paper titled, 鈥淟ong-term temperature exposure and depression incidence in the Nurses鈥 Health Study II, a U.S.-based prospective cohort,鈥 in the journal Environment International, in association with researchers from Harvard, University of California and OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.鈥
Alireza Rezaee, Dr. Asma Tahir, Dr. Mark Buttner, and Dr. Joram Seggev (性视界传媒 Pollen Lab; Public Health) presented a poster titled, "Comparison of Weed Pollen Concentrations in Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert from 2020-2022," at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) 2026 Conference in Philadelphia on鈥
Ph.D. graduate Theresa T. Roehr, Patricia Cruz, and Mark Buttner (all School of Public Health) coauthored a paper titled, 鈥淨uantitative universal fungal PCR analysis of environmental air samples from Las Vegas, Nevada,鈥 in the journal Aerobiologia. The paper assesses how environmental conditions in Las Vegas play a role in the distribution and鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, 鈥淚ntention to reduce dietary salt and its influencing factors in middle-aged and older hypertensive patients: A theory of planned behavior-based cross-sectional study,鈥 in collaboration with researchers from Chongqing Medical University in the journal,鈥
Manoj Sharma and Mahsa Pashaeimeykola (both Social and Behavioral Health) presented and published a paper titled 鈥淥pen education utilizing open pedagogy in enlisting and training graduate scholars in public health鈥 in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference held in Valencia, Spain. The鈥
Barbara Lewis, Chris Cochran, Neeraj Bhandari, Soumya Upadhyay, Erika Marquez (all Public Health) and Stowe Shoemaker's (Hospitality) article titled, "Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Quantitative Study on How Councils are Used and Predictors of Effective Councils," was published in the Journal of Patient Experience.
Manoj Sharma, Asma Awan, Vikash Patel, Aastha Poudel (all Social & Behavioral Health), Badrunisa Hanif, Tooba Laeeq, and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine) authored an article titled 鈥淎 theory-based approach to predict stress relaxation behavior among South Asian Americans: A cross-sectional study鈥 in the International Journal of鈥
Brenna Renn and Katie Singsank (Psychology), Ishrat Zaman (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Kimberly Cobos and Samantha John (Brain Health) recently published an article titled, "Differential item functioning of the Geriatric Depression Scale-short form in the NACC dataset," in Alzheimer's & Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer's鈥