Manoj Sharma

Dr. Manoj Sharma, MBBS, PhD, MCHES(R), is a public health physician and educator with a medical degree from the University of Delhi and a doctorate in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University. He is currently a tenured Full Professor and Chair of the Social and Behavioral Health program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. In his career,...See more

Dr. Manoj Sharma, MBBS, PhD, MCHES(R), is a public health physician and educator with a medical degree from the University of Delhi and a doctorate in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University. He is currently a tenured Full Professor and Chair of the Social and Behavioral Health program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. In his career, spanning over 35 years, he has trained/taught over 6,000 health professionals. He has worked for local health departments; state health departments/agencies; federal government agencies; nonprofit agencies; professional organizations; and international agencies including governments of other nations in his career. He is ranked in the top one percentile of global research scientists from 176 fields by Elsevier. He has been awarded several prestigious honors including American Public Health Association's Mentoring Award, ICTHP Impact Award, J. Mayhew Derryberry Award, and William R. Gemma Distinguished Alumnus Award at The Ohio State University among others. His research interests are in developing and evaluating theory-based health behavior change interventions, obesity prevention, stress-coping, community-based participatory research, and integrative mind-body-spirit interventions. See less