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August 2022
Congratulations to Sarah Hibbert-Johnson for successfully defending their MPH thesis titled "Food and beverage purchases, food insecurity and mental health among college students"
June 2022
New paper published. "Peoples’ Perception towards Nuclear Energy". This paper was first-authored by a MPH student.
April 2022
Congratulations to Sowmya Natarajan for successfully defending their MPH thesis titled "Female Hormonal Medications and Risk Indicators of Periodontitis: Insights from the NHANES".
May 2022
New paper published. "Political ideology and nuclear energy: Perception, proximity, and trust".
April 2022
Chair of the Disaster Preparedness and Response Conference. Following on from their MPH thesis, Dr. Meesha Iqbal and Dr. Irene van Woerden co-chaired this conference.
December 2021
New paper published. This study examined how dietary quality was associated with mental health among college athletes. HEI scores were consistently higher for athletes with poorer mental health. Possible reasons for results and suggestions for future research are discussed.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/24/13377
November 2021
Congratulations to Maysoon Rashid for successfully defending her MPH thesis "Acceptance of Silver Diamine Fluoride to Arrest Early Childhood Caries by Refugee Parents and Caregivers" and for competing in the ISU three minute thesis (3MT) competition with the findings.
Congratulations to Grace Dehner for successfully defending her MPH thesis "Public perceptions of the effects of nuclear energy on the environment and public health: Associations with proximity, rurality, and political ideology"
October 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Meesha Iqbal for successfully defending her MPH thesis "Exploring Disaster and Pandemic Preparedness in the Idaho Falls Community and its Suburbs".
September 2021
New paper published. This study examined variability in four different methods of calculating moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among older adults, as well as lifestyle correlates of physical activity. The results demonstrate the wide variability possible in reporting methods for accelerometry data and their relation to adherence rates for national health recommendations.
https://lnkd.in/dzigKuTW
August 2021
We had a great "Acute Disaster Response & Preparedness" Workshop with first responders, healthcare professionals and healthcare students from eastern Idaho at the Idaho State University Disaster Response Complex (DRC). Our MPH graduate student (Meesha Iqbal) was the lead for this seminar. This was a great example of collaboration between ISU's Community & Public Health, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Continuing Education and Workforce Training. We had speakers from Southeastern Idaho Public Health, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, and Idaho National Laboratory. Hear more about Meesha's background and the event here, and read more and about the event here.
July 2021
Congratulations to Sarah Hibbert Johnson for successfully presenting our initial findings regarding student expenses and food insecurity at the Idaho INBRE conference in Moscow, ID. Several Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine students volunteered over the summer to assist with this work and to gain research experience.
May 2021
Our survey looking at community perceptions on issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity, nuclear energy and local disaster preparedness is being advertised.
A short article summarizing my research on College Students and Meal Plan Use is now available here. Thanks to Anya Brown for working on this article.
https://isu.edu/healthsciences/news/2021/college-students-and-meal-plan-use/
April 2021
Congratulations to Sowmya Natarajan for winning the best poster presentation prize in the category of "Health, Nutrition, & Clinical Sciences" at ISU's Graduate Research Symposium. Sowmya presented the project she has been working on for MPH 5599.
Congratulations to Dr. Meesha Iqbal for winning the best oral presentation in the category of "behavioral and social sciences" at ISU's Graduate Research Symposium. Meesha presented the results of a secondary data analysis of the PDHS (national survey of Pakistan) that determined the variation in prevalence of domestic violence across the four provinces of Pakistan, and how domestic violence was associated with different cultures, norms and traditions.
Congratulations to Dr. Meesha Iqbal for also being a runner-up for the ISU student employee of the year.
Congratulations to Sarah Hibbert for being awarded a summer INBRE fellowship. Sarah will continue her work looking at food insecurity, living expenses, dietary quality, and mental health.
Funding has been obtained to examine the social network of alternative high school students, and how peers are associated with different health behaviors and outcomes.
New paper published. This paper examined how bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol F (BPF), and bisphenol S (BPS) were associated with dietary behaviors and poor health outcomes. Healthier dietary quality and several HEI subgroups were related to lower urinary BPA concentrations; no significant (P ≤ 0.0005) findings were observed for BPF and BPS.
doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqab080
March 2021
College students tend to have friends who share their alcohol use behavior, the reason why this similarity occurs was examined in this newly released publication. Strong evidence of peer influence on weekly alcohol use and binge drinking was found, and friendships were more likely to form among students with the same alcohol use behavior (e.g., non-drinkers were most likely to befriend non-drinkers). Alcohol use was associated with friendships ending, which may be due to problems associated with alcohol use.
doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2021.82.121
Friendship network with nodes shaded by student average alcohol use across waves. Nodes shaded white denote nondrinking students at each observation; nodes shaded black denote binge drinkers at each observation (bottom panel). Shades of gray denote students whose drinking shifted across waves (with lighter colors denoting fewer waves of reported drinking). For display purposes only, nodes were connected by a tie if either student reported a friendship at any wave.
January 2021
Our new article "Food insecurity among college students: A case for consistent and comparable measurement" discusses that the existing food insecurity measurement tools may not perform as expected when used with college students.
doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102031
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