Accomplishments: Department of Social and Behavioral Health
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a poster titled, 鈥淭ailoring Evidence-Based Interventions and Practices in Public Health Workforce Development: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the ARPA Nevada Pipeline Initiative Public Health Workforce" on April 22, 2026 at the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%).
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
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
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
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
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
Rupam Mitra and Mahsa Pashaeimeykola (both Social & Behavioral Health) have been selected to receive the Emerging Scholar Award at the Sixteenth International Conference organized by Health, Wellness & Society to be held at the University of Guadalajara in M茅xico on 10-11 September 2026. Mitra and Pashaeimeykola are both doctoral鈥