Accomplishments: Department of Internal Medicine
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Diarrhoeal Disease and Enteric Infectious Diseases, published an article titled, 鈥淕lobal burden of enteric infectious diseases, diarrhoeal diseases, and corresponding aetiologies, 1990鈥2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease鈥
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, 鈥淥vercoming Workforce Shortages: Evidence from a Structured, Scholarship Experiential Program Linking Academia and Local Health Departments鈥 at the Academy Health, Annual Research Meeting held in Seattle, WA from鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a textbook, Introduction to Community and Public Health (3rd edition) with his former student, Prof. Paul Branscum of Miami University, and published by Wiley. This is the only textbook that delivers definitive treatment of all five core areas of public health, viz.,鈥
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health and Medicine) presented a poster titled, "A Multi-Theory Model鈥揃ased Intervention to Promote Stress Relaxation Behaviors among U.S. Veterans," on April 28, 2026, at the VA Research Week and Affiliate Partnership Council Event held at VA Southern Nevada鈥
Md. Sohail Akhter, Rupam Mitra, Ishrat Zaman, Asma Awan (all Public Health) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) presented and participated in a panel discussion for ARPA Scholarship Project titled "ARPA: Experiential Learning for Public Health Workforce Augmentation" on April 22, 2026 at the Nevada Public Health Association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 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 & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Healthcare Innovations in Software, Engineering & Technology (HISET-2025) held in Karad, Maharashtra, India. The title of his presentation was "Advent of the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change in鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual paper titled 鈥淥nline teaching for public health in program planning鈥 at the 18th Annual International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI), 2025, held in Seville, Spain. The presentation highlighted his pedagogical approach using the multi-鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a co-presenter of 31 presentations with his students and colleagues at the 153rd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 2-5. The topics of his presentation ranged from public health workforce training in Nevada, mental health鈥
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk 2023 Collaborators titled, 鈥淕lobal, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023鈥 in鈥